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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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Support for Linux 5.x kernels

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) >= 1.18.0 provisions the worker nodes with a Ubuntu running 5.x kernels (e.g. 5.4.0-1034-azure) and the deployment of sfg:6.1.0.0 and sfg:6.1.0.1 containers fail because Linux 5.* is not included in *.Linux.VERSIO...

For IBM SFG to be able to leverage on Azure Managed SQL service

It would be super if SFG setup in Azure (IAAS) could leverage on Azure Managed SQL service (PAAS) instead of the need to setup MS SQL Server separately as an IAAS instance. The purpose of moving to cloud is to benefit from the need to administer s...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Delivered

Microsoft Exchange disabling basic Authentication based connections to Exchange online

Microsoft have announced that they will be disabling basic Authentication based connections to Exchange online. Basic Authentication means that the client application passes the username and password with every request. Although simple to setup an...

Support for Oracle 12 and onwards Containerized Databases (CDB) / Pluggable Databases (PDB)

As per today containerized databases or pluggable databasea are not supported when using an Oracle 12.2. database. (see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/does-sterling-b2b-integrator-support-oracle-19c-and-container-cdbpdb-architecture-model). How...

Support for RMA Plus

Swift as part of CSP recommends usage of RMA Plus. Under RMA Plus, support is provided at the request type level. HSBC has upgraded to usage of RMA Plus, however we are limited as RMA Plus is not supported in Sterling integrator.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 2 Delivered

Upgrade Create/Update Community API to Include Setting of PGP Decryption and Signing Keys

When setting up PGP decryption for inbound files, being able to set the PGP Decryption key when creating the community is minimum requirement when automating partner onboarding. The Create/Update Community APIs should be enhanced to include both t...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Delivered

Allow a SFG Community to allow using more than one PGP key for decryption.

Allow a SFG community to allow partners to use the existing key or the new key to encrypt their data with so that SFG then can use either PGP key for decryption - this will allow partners to make changes in a gradual way , when we generate new PGP...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 3 Delivered

PGP key software - support for subkeys

Customers are moving on to using sub-keys in their PGP key stores and they are requesting us to implement support for accepting sub-keys in Sterling B2B Integrator. Sub-keys allow customers to rotate their keys easily by having one parent key hold...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Delivered

Capability to upload files larger than 100 MB to B2Bi Customization API UI for Docker version of B2Bi

The B2Bi docker version 6.0.2 has a 100 MB limitation on the jar files that can be uploaded to Customization API UI dashboard. The AWS SDK (which is required for S3 client) is 130 MB and cannot be uploaded to the Customization API UI dashboard. th...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 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