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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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Implement Password rules for FTP(s) and SFTP Server Adapter External Authentication

Our platform is using IBM Sterling Integrator 6.1.1 Not using Sterling Secure Proxy All the accounts are created using local LDAP on the app servers. These accounts do not use IBM Sterling Authentication. FTP(s) or SFTP Following are the requireme...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Not under consideration

Update Installation Manager to use installed version of java

SBI currently requires IIM to install. IIM comes packaged with its own version of Java, which is typically out of date and (as instructed in a PMR) cannot be updated independently to bring into compliance. If IIM could be configured to use an inst...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 0 Not under consideration

Supply Client Certificate Details to BP launched by HTTP Server Adapter

Details as to the CommonName of the Client Certificate and its Signing Authority would be useful in BP ProcessData to validate that the Client Certificate belongs to the source system that used it, and that it is signed by the correct CA (when mul...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

Workflow not Halting for Unmanaged Exceptions

Documentation states: " When no code attribute exists and no match to a defined attribute exists for an onFault element at a level, Sterling B2B Integrator moves to a general onFault (no code attribute) element. If Sterling B2B Integrator does not...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Future consideration

Allow the FTP Server adapter to ignore or terminate connections from load balancer health checks

The FTP Server Adapter seems to accept connections from the load balancer health checking, and creates entries into the ACT_SESSION table for them. It seems an unnecessary task to perform and causes additional database activity. The Connect Direct...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Adapter Containers: Allow container-specific JVM arguments

Right now, if you want to add custom JVM arguments to adapter containers (say for JVM monitoring), this is done via the Performance Tuning wizard. The wizard provides only one field for custom JVM arguments, which are then applied to all adapter c...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

EBICS Adapter Group support for Client adapters

We are unable to configure an adapter group name in the EBICS Client system properties configuration. We have a two node cluster and this presents a signal point of failure if we lose a primary node.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Future consideration

Help us to DB_SCHEMA_OWNER parameter dont be ignored by SFG in order it can start to use schema owner specified?

Help us to DB_SCHEMA_OWNER parameter dont be ignored by SFG in order it can start to use schema owner specified?
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 3 Not under consideration

Control Number History should be sorted by control number so they are easy to find.

Very often control numbers must be deleted to reprocess an EDI document and their are most often way to many pages of control numbers to look through to find the one in question.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Add the TRADACOMS messages to Standard Library

Hi, This is to request that please add the TRADACOMS messages such PVUHDR, PVUINF and PVUTLR into the Standards Library.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 1 Not under consideration