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Administration & Configuration

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Option to exclude MAILBOX messages from PurgeAll.sh

We run SI as stateless, but use MAILBOX for B2B communication. We clean up SI once every quarter to improve the performance / response time. The clean up process becomes cumbersome because we have to make sure all MAILBOX messages are backed up un...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Allow different sender and receiver email addresses for sending alert mails in standard BPs

Currently in many standard BPs both the sender as well as the receiver of an email is coming from the admin users email address. Unfortunately there are situations where the sender (sending system) is different from the required receiver address(e...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Allow to use two wildcards in SFTP Client LIST service

We would like to pick up files from our partners using two wildcards in RemoteFileName field in SFTP Client LIST and SFTP Client GET services.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Fix the migration of envelopes from Sterling B2B Integrator and ITXA

When we export envelope from SI and import to ITXA, we are missing some configuration. Please see the word document attached. I am also attaching XML export file where you can find the UNH_DEFAULT_OUT envelope.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

JsontoXml out of box service.

Currently JsonToXml service converts a Json data file to respective xml format and stores the xml file in Filesystem under <Install-dir>/bin/output.xml. Parallelly it creates a tag called <output></output> with the xml data insi...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Removing specific Operator functions within Sterling Integrator

This proposed functionality is useful because it provides security from a SOX perspective for those that are and aren't members of your company and/or organization, who will benefit from this change.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Enable to configure property maxNumberOfWSMQSuiteConnections greater than 500

There are clients who need more than 500 connections to MQ, 500 is a value so small. File where is configured wsmq.properties.in Description of property: # PROPERTY_NAME : maxNumberOfWSMQSuiteConnections ## PROPERTY_TYPE : Integer ## PROPERTY_DESC...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Fix some bin scripts bang line

When automating bin/runAll.sh script, it failed to find bang line on first line of script. This is on a new install of b2bi 6.1.0.2 Running cmd below on b2bi bin dir: head -n1 *.sh > /tmp/bin_head1_list.txt Shows that these 6 scripts have somet...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Provide Option to export in Jar file while using export Command Line Utility

In Sterling Integrator, export command line utility, export.sh, is available under <INSTALL_DIR>/tp_import directory. It is currently having export options as XML (Default), WAR file. There are no options to do export in JAR file format.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Integrate internal source control to standard source control tools (e.g. git) or artifact repositories (e.g. artifactory)

Secure management of code and config for large enterprises is pushing heavily towards standard repositories. These are increasingly used not only to assist developers, but also as points of governance and auditabiltiy. Sterling's internal source ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration