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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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Improve SPOE update process in containers so that a helm install is not required

Currently, when making an update to the SPOE file, the process requires the file to be pulled in via a helm install. In an enterprise environment, there tend to be limitations on what can be done during business hours as part of normal configurati...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Functionality already exists

Global Cleanup Logic in External Purge Process

The external purge functionality in B2BI has shown significant improvement compared to the internal purge mechanism. However, further enhancements are needed to ensure the database and file system remain lightweight, scalable, and cost-efficient i...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Submitted

AS2 support for CEM message format

As Sectigo and other Certificate Authority (CA) providers increasingly implement frequent certificate upgrades to strengthen security, the need for automated certificate management solutions becomes more critical. A proven approach, already adopte...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 1 Submitted

Private Key Authentication for JDBC Connections

Our current Sterling 6.1.2 is connecting to Snowflake DB using JDBC (Snowflake driver) with username/password authentication method. Now, due to security reasons, the Snowflake is enforcing private key authentication (.p8) instead of password. But...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

Include wildcard support in Sterling B2B for C:D transfers

Hello, We have identified that the wildcard (*) function for sending or receiving with the C:D Sterling adapter does not work. It is unable to automatically detect all possible files located in a mailbox using the wildcard. While it does copy the ...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 3 Needs more information

Request to extend AS2 user password length to 100 or more chars, and/or enable User Identity Key authentication method for AS2

We are unable to accommodate AS2 connections to CPI due to username and password length limitations. This has a risen during a POC with client Haleon who have already commited to a further 6 connections that we currently can't facilitate. We have ...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 3 Planned for future release

Need more access methods other than SAS token in transfer from Sterling Integrator to Azure Blob Storage

We are currently looking into the options for the Sterling to Blob write options with the newly available Object Store Client Adapter as mentioned below. Object Store Client Adapter - IBM Documentation With the setup provided in the guidance, we c...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 5 Future consideration

Issue with chinese characters or Ukranian characters in Sterling Map Editor

Hi Team, We’ve observed that the Sterling B2Bi Map Editor Interface currently does not support the input of Chinese or Ukrainian characters. Could you please investigate whether this limitation is related to UTF-8 multi-byte character handling or ...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 3 Under review

Request to Implement FLAG-Based InFlight Data Filters

InFlight data filters rely on Sender, Receiver, and Doctype information to display documents to users. This system works well for successful documents. However, if a failure occurs before the metadata (Sender, Receiver, Doctype) is resolved, those...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Not under consideration

Display Preprocessor Map Names in Inflight Event Details & allow searches

We have several flows that require executing a series of preprocessor maps before the data reaches the actual translation map. Since we don't track all steps in sequential order in INFLIGHT, we are requesting the engineering team to display the "P...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Not under consideration