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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...
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Ability to setup by parameter in SB2BI the temporary File Transfer folder for S3 Amazon socket instead of <SB2BI install/tmp> hard coded

STELLANTIS Request: Using the S3 bucket Adapter, By default The file is exported to the product installation directory (<SI_install>/tmp) for the temporary storage, which is very dangerous because the filesystems dedicated to product install...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 5 Planned for future release

dbsetup job should not default to ASI resources

Customer with a large container deployment hit an issue because they have very large requests and limits set for their ASI pods and they could not get the dbsetup job to deploy. Per the helm chart, it looks like the dbsetup job uses the same reque...
12 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Planned for future release

Azure Blob Storage Service Principal

Request that IBM update the object store client adapter to support authentication via Microsoft Entra id service principal. Unlike the current configuration option which supports secret key or account key, the enhancement would support configuring...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Planned for future release

Enable SNI support for SSL Cert Grabber

Currently if you use the SSL Cert Grabber to pull back a certificate from an endpoint that is using SNI to determine which TLS certificate to return, you will not get the correct TLS cert, but the TLS cert for the base domain. This can make it dif...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Integration with Azure Entra ID for user authentication

User authentication support with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and SAML 2.0 in the Sterling B2B Integrator product, for integration with Azure Entra ID.Not just LDAP support.
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Planned for future release

Support current SFTP/SSH host key and public key algorithms.

Sterling currently only supports ssh-rsa algorithm for host and public key. this is limiting sftp transfers with our new SFTP partners. New SFTP servers like Azure SFTP doesnt support ssh-rsa for host key algorithm. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

Request support for SHA224 hashes to cover entire SHA-2 suite

B2B Advanced Communications currently only supports the following options for digest hash function and signature hash function: MD5 SHA1 SHA256 SHA384 SHA512 The SHA-2 family of hashes specifies support for the following set of hash algorithms: SH...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Planned for future release

OAuth support for HTTP Server Adapters

Currently HTTP Server Adapters in Sterling B2B Integrator only support basic authentication. It would be good if we can have OAuth authentication natively in B2Bi as OAuth is currently an industry standard for Authentication and Security and most ...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 2 Planned for future release

Rest API integration using OAuth (HTTP Client Adapter and REST API Client Service)

Currently HTTP Client Adapter and REST API Client Service allow for only basic authentication. Most external SaaS clients require OAuth 2.0 since it provides for better security We are unable to fulfill requests partners requiring REST API communi...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 1 Planned for future release

Enable support for AWS S3 Server Side Encryption on S3 Buckets

We need B2Bi AWS S3 Client Service adapter to support AWS S3 Server Side Encryption.
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 6 Planned for future release

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