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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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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

Remove case sensitivity in trading partner accounts logins

SFG/B2BI requires case sensitivity when our trading partners log into the system (abcd is not equal to ABCD). This is causing issues for our trading partners as we migrate from our legacy MFT that did not have this restriction.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Update SI to support the latest version of GnuPG using the provided CLA2CMD Adapter (RTC 584840)

Currently Sterling Integrator supplied GnuPG Adapter supports PGP V2.0. This has been depreciated on 31st December 2017. The newest versions (currently 2.2.16) fail to work (see RTC 584840) with the internally supplied cla2cmd adapter.
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 2 Not under consideration

The source map name and compiled map name should be same as that of name of Map detail, only then the map deployment should be allowed

The source map name and compiled map name should be same as that of name of Map detail, only then the map deployment should be allowed.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 0 Not under consideration

Revive Health Check Utility for Sterling Integrator

We had been widely using the Health Check Utility to examine the health and performance of the application on a weekly basis. After the utility was removed from recent versions, we are having difficulty validating the application on a routine basi...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

HTTP Adapter Connection Properties: SSL Settings - multiple system certificates needed

When the certificate used for our AS2 and HTTP connections with trading partners expires, we must switch to a new certificate. Each of our trading partners must be given the new certificate. The System certificate option on the HTTP Adapter Connec...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 3 Not under consideration

Configuring Mailbox User Interface through HTTP protocol for Global Mailbox

We recently installed Global Mailbox on existing Sterling Integrator and currently working on migrating partners from traditional SI mailboxes to Global Mailboxes. We use SFTP, NDM (connect direct) and HTTPs protocols for file transmission. For SF...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 2 Not under consideration

Need SFG to ignore the case for user name

We want the clients ability to connect to SFG using an userid not worrying about case, I.e., say in SFG the user id is called DTCCTEST we want the user to be able to use any case dtcctest or DTCCTEST or DTCCTest etc and SFG to be able to allow the...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Supporting AUTH TLS for FTPS Port 21

Enable AUTH TLS on FTPS Transfer. Current version of SI 6.1.2 doesn't support AUTH TLS. This was a request from an external vendor to enable AUTH TLS for secured transfer.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration

New report that lists the XML source code of the BPs.

New report that allows the client to know the xml content of one, several or all active BPs in the system at any time. This would allow reviewing the processes, looking for adapters and others, that the client may need to know when migrating from ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Not under consideration