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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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SFTP SSH Known Host Key ssh-ed25519 format

our customer are using ssh-ed25519 ssh key format we are not bael to add this format in SI SSH Known Host Key
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 3 Delivered

Single sign on(SSO) Implementation for External Connection Via SSP for B2Bi Docker

It was noticed that the current steps(mentioned in below link) for SSO implementation is not suitable for External connection Via SSP/SEASfor docker based B2Bi install. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS6PNW_6.0.0/com.ibm.help.ssp.s...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 0 Delivered

Using EC2 Profile to access AWS S3 buckets

SI 6.0.2 has an S3 client but mandates the use of access and secret keys to connect to AWS S3 buckets. It does not allow the use of Assume IAM role or EC2 profiles to access S3 . Assume IAM role/EC2 Profiles eliminate the need to store and maintai...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 3 Delivered

Support of Diffie Hellman Algorithm- Swithcing from SHA1 to SHA2

Tyco Electronics wants to switch over to SHA2 to trade with its partners. However the product doesn't support this feature. Not having SHA2 support in SSH handshake is preventing them to trade with their critical partners as some of their partners...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 8 Delivered

Providing a list of supported encryption keys.

VENDOR supported Keys Keys that will be supported RSA (3072) Ed25519 ECDSA (nistp521) The feedback from the PepsiCo ECG team below is we only accept the following supported keys: PepsiCo supported keys ssh -rsa 2048, ssh-rsa 1024, ssh-rsa , ssh-dss
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Delivered

Add support for AWS S3 storage as the back end file system instead of requiring a Clustered File System/NAS Share

AWS EFS does not provide adequate performance or HA to be used as the back end file system for file storage, and EBS can not be clustered across multiple nodes. Native support for S3 object storage would enable us to take advantage of the upcoming...

Getting Multiple Files from AWS via Sterling B2B Integrator 6.0

We have the facility to put multiple files to AWS from Sterling B2B Integrator 6.0 but do not have code/facility to go with getting multiple files.
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Delivered

Compatibility with databases managed on cloud - DBaaS

On the last deployment scenarios in which applications are deployed on cloud (on virtual servers or containers) it would be useful to be able to use DBaaS distributions such us DB2 on Cloud or Azure SQL. It is a backward step to have to use on-pre...

Support Oracle 19c in SI 6.x release

Currently product doesn't support Oracle 19c Database. However it is the latest release of the Oracle database and vendor wants to push the new version than old version. That way it is good to consume the latest version of the database available i...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 0 Delivered

Supported encryption keys - ssh-ed25519

My customer will need to integrate with 80 other banks via SFTP, but one of the types of Hostkey that other bank's uses isto ed25519, but B2B does not support it. This ed25519 key will soon be used a lotthis key is becoming common. I tried it thro...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 2 Delivered