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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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Deployment and Rollback Enhancements

We are requesting the IBM Sterling Integrator (B2Bi) development team to implement an enhanced rollback mechanism for non-outage upgrades in environments consisting of multiple clusters. The current rollback strategy relies on restoring a backup s...
13 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Document Object Storage for Connect Direct Adapter

as documented on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/b2b-integrator/6.2.1?topic=container-document-service there is object storage available for most of the adapters but not C:D. this is the main roadblock from stopping us from adopting Object storage for...

IBM License Service for containerized B2b +additional Sterling Data Exchange Products

Chief Architect suggested that I open this with B2B, as B2B owns the helm deployment and container. When integrated, ITX, ITXA and B2BI all run in the same container and that container only reports B2BI VPC to the Licensing service. This makes cli...
27 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

Mailbox permission rights via REST API

Currently, the only way to set the rights on a mailbox (e.g. READ, WRITE, EXECUTE, etc) is to edit the XML used by the Import and Export Service. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/b2b-integrator/6.2.1?topic=integrator-mailbox-permission-rights The Mailb...
27 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Submitted

Extend field length in table SBIADMIN.SCI_ENTITY_EXTNS to accommodate longer encrypted passwords

We are working to configure the Object Client Store Adapter as documented in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/b2b-integrator/6.2.0?topic=z-object-store-client-adapter When we attempt to use/store the encrypted credential, our Trading Partners become co...

Add feature on SharePoint Client Adapter to use display name of the document library.

On Sterling B2B Integrator, SharePoint Client Adapter has limitation that display and internal should be same on document library but in real world we have scenario that display and internal name is different and due to this, Sterling is unable to...
28 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

Parity of local and global mailboxes in the B2B REST API

We want to include Global Mailboxes, list, and content extract, just like Local Mailboxes, as part of the B2B REST API. The aim is to enable 1touch and IBM IGDC to integrate with the IBM Sterling solution while monitoring all data passing through ...
30 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Needs more information

Standalone Java upgrade

Considering enhanced focus on Java vulnerabilities and the frequency in which they are discovered, its difficult to keep pace with resolving them, if every time Product upgrade is needed. Please see if the Java upgrade can be done stand alone for ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Upgrade WLP standalone

WLP releases new versions every month, as per organizational policy of n-2 we always stay non-compliant with any product upgrade. By the time product upgrade is released at-least 1 newer version of WLP would be present. Internal cycle to deploy SI...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Add support for EDIFACT Syntax Version 'X' in UNB envelope

It appears that the latest EDIFACT standards ("VDA-EDIFACT" for automotive) allow for an 'X' to be used as the syntax version in the UNB envelope. Unfortunately, doing so fails both enveloping and de-enveloping in SB2Bi (as confirmed by IBM PMR TS...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 2 Submitted