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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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The idea is to change the password encryption algorithm in the dark data service.

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8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Make the selected font color configurable in the skins.properties_style_ext file for B2Bi properties.

The selected font color now is yellow and can't be changed. If you color code your environments the standard green, yellow and red. The yellow font color is now hard to see your environments. Let us decide what the selected font color should be.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Certified Container - db-setup pod should have logs volumes attached

db-setup pod should have logs volumes attached so the logs can be retained even after the auto deletion of db-setup pod. IBM asks for the logs but because the db-setup pod auto deleted so even the ephemeral logs also get deleted which are very imp...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 3 Functionality already exists

Create monitoring plan for threads, connections and buffers using QW

We have a need to monitor threads, connections and thread pools with the help of Queue watcher. Currently QW provide just the snapshot but there is no reporting from the same. We had multiple times the situation where the application is utilising...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Future consideration

Ability to route files from alternate datacentre in Global Mailbox

We currently receive files internally from multiple sources into Global Mailbox which is load balanced across the two datacentres. We have had situation whereby a file has come into DC1 and we have needed to redeliver the file in DC2 due to issues...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Future consideration

MDC (Modification Detection Code) support for native PGP service with in the Sterling Integrator.

Other PGP software's like 'McAFee' supports MDC (Modification Detection Code).
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future consideration

Need MailClientAdapter for Exchange Web Service

Customers who have been using SI B2B Mail Client Adapter to receive mail from Exchange Online using the POP3 protocol will no longer be able to use POP or IMAP due to a change in the company's security policy. (And Microsoft itself) So, as an alte...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 3 Future 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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 3 Not under consideration

Additional REST services

In our project, we have augmented the Sterling REST services with some other capabilities which we wrote as JAX-RS/Jersey REST services, hosted in a WAR in an HTTP Adapter. It would be good if you would consider in the roadmap providing the functi...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Allow individual customization for FTP mailboxes

Requesting control to customize individual mailboxes to flag inbound documents with multiple flags. Examples would be allowing customers to send a document to us via their FTP mailbox and it would flag documents based on customized file name, size...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration