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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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Container deployment or upgrade may not work in shared environments

There's been a few cases pointed out where the B2BI/SFG example container scripts for creating SCCs, Cluster Roles, Rolebindings, etc do not work in shared environments. This is interfering with deployments and upgrades in shared environments. In ...

Support for AS4 compatible with Peppol Network

Currently, there is no option in IBM B2B Sterling for AS4 to use directly without installing additional software, like IBM Advanced Communications, and in this case looks like the AS4 protocol used it's not by the standards of the Peppol network. ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 4 Future consideration

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...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Submitted

Automatic recovery for critical failures such as database failures

We have an SFG/B2B environment installed on Linux/AIX machines and in tests simulating the loss of the database we noticed that after the database becomes operational, SFG/B2B does not recover, making it necessary to perform a STOP/START of the pr...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Functionality already exists

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...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

Display Protocol Delivery Failure Error Details in InFlight Event Details

When a file fails to get delivered via SFTP, AS2, etc. after the retry limit gets exhausted, we just see some basic details in the Event details of the "Retry Limit" step in InFlight as shown below. Reached retry count limit - Retry Count Limit: 5...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Under review

Ability to Block Concurrent Sessions of All Users

Due to security reasons, it is necessary to have the option to block concurrent sessions of all users. Right now, it can be only be achieved via Bandwidth Limiting Policy however since that option affects only the selected users, newly created use...
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Functionality already exists

IBM Sterling Products - provide Ansible / Chef playbooks for patching and deploying products

Manual installation and patching of IBM Sterling products is very risky, time-consuming, and error-prone, which is not sustainable for long-term support. Our business is seeking automated playbook recipes (e.g., Chef or Ansible) from IBM for produ...
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Having different Status icon and Status in InFlight for the files that are Finished and not delivered to Partner/Customer.

Currently we see a Green tick mark for the files that get successfully processed irrespective of the fact whether these were delivered to the receiving party via an established connectivity or else FINISHED on SCBN. Many times while working on the...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Under review

Restarting a Carbon Copy Branch in InFlight

We work on a lot of Business scenarios for the SCBN Customers where the main document is carbon copied and sent for parallel processing. In this case, we would see a separate entry for the main branch and separate entries for the Carbon Copied bra...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration