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PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...

Sterling B2B Integrator

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HTTP access log with URL, status code, IP's, user agent string, etc.

Security frequently audits to review the HTTP access logs for web server of Sterling Application (external facing apps). Security expect the HTTP access log to reflect the URL, status code, IP's, user agent string, etc. Can you suggest where to tr...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Multi-threaded solution for MEFG adapter

Since MEFG adapter is single threaded , it can handle only one SWIFT (Interact / Fileact )request at a time . This makes subsequent SWIFT requests keeping in queue waiting to reach till MEFG adapter, this breaks the SLA of responding SWIFT request...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 2 Future consideration

MS GRAPH API Protocol for B2Bi Mail Client Service Adaptor

We have one integration where we are using B2B Mail Client Adapter to fetch mails and perform operations. Now Exchange servers from where we are downloading mails are moving to Cloud. They want us to use protocol like MS graph API or Exchange Web ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Not under consideration

Allow Connect Direct processes "Waiting on I/O" to stop consuming a Thread (similar to how SFTP operates)

In order to expand usage of Connect Direct inside B2Bi, Connect Direct processes need to behave similar to other protocols. Connect Direct consumes an entire Thread (queue watcher) the entire time a Connect Direct transfer is occurring. With other...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Future consideration

Allow individual customization for FTP mailboxes

Requesting control to customize individual mailboxes to flag inbound documents with multiple flags. Examples would be allowing customers to send a document to us via their FTP mailbox and it would flag documents based on customized file name, size...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

SSO and OAuth support for authenticating B2BAPI access

At minimum would need to able to use the SEAS SAML like tokens to allow authentication of APIUser for B2BAPI calls. Liberty Profile native supports both SAML /OAuth authentication and the current instance does authenticate with B2Bi so it should a...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Planned for future release

Change security logs format

The security logs can be changed to display more information in a single line. It will help security teams to identify who creates/deletes users or groups.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration

PRINCIPAL column in ACT_SESSION table is too short

Error in logs indicating data truncation on PRINCIPAL column in ACT_SESSION table. ERROR 000000000000 GLOBAL_SCOPE DmiVisEventWarehouseQueue.Worker.executeStatementsAsExecutor had a SQL exception from pstmnt: PreparedStatementHelper: SQL: UPDATE A...

Add a comments field in customization UI

There must be a comments field in customization UI while adding entries to customer_overrides.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Allow segregation of administrators to discrete lists of trading partners

Our organization has multiple business units. We need the ability to assign administrators so that they can make changes to only those accounts assigned to their business unit. Example - Trading partners A, B, and C are assigned to business unit A...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Not under consideration