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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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Support current SFTP/SSH host key and public key algorithms.

Sterling currently only supports ssh-rsa algorithm for host and public key. this is limiting sftp transfers with our new SFTP partners. New SFTP servers like Azure SFTP doesnt support ssh-rsa for host key algorithm. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

Standalone Java upgrade

Considering enhanced focus on Java vulnerabilities and the frequency in which they are discovered, its difficult to keep pace with resolving them, if every time Product upgrade is needed. Please see if the Java upgrade can be done stand alone for ...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Upgrade WLP standalone

WLP releases new versions every month, as per organizational policy of n-2 we always stay non-compliant with any product upgrade. By the time product upgrade is released at-least 1 newer version of WLP would be present. Internal cycle to deploy SI...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Rest API integration using OAuth (HTTP Client Adapter and REST API Client Service)

Currently HTTP Client Adapter and REST API Client Service allow for only basic authentication. Most external SaaS clients require OAuth 2.0 since it provides for better security We are unable to fulfill requests partners requiring REST API communi...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 1 Planned for future release

Archived document should always contains both input and output data even though there are multiple processing steps.

I have noticed that, for a flow, IBM is receiving the files from the trading partner with the CII format and converting them to XML format before sending them to the customer, and finally, the customer is receiving XML files from IBM. In this flow...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

User based data limit policy

When the same data limit policy is applied to various users, the inbound traffic byte counter is the sum of all the users included in the policy. So if one of them is reaching the limit. All the users of the policy are affected. Please, conside...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 5 Needs more information

Cluster SBI with several nodes - compare config files with SCCM

why is it useful? It is useful in order to identify differences between configuration files from different nodes of a SBI Cluster who would Benefit from it? anyone who is using SBI Cluster how should it work? SCCM could compare different files abo...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

SFG integration with Mainframe SFTP server Co:Z

Hi Team, We have SFTP server on mainframe using product CO:Z. In order to send files from open system to mainframe we have to set DCB parameters. Along with we want to trigger processes on mainframe. ls /+mode=text ,lrecl=80,recfm=fb,space=cyl.5.5...
6 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Integration with Azure Entra ID for user authentication

User authentication support with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and SAML 2.0 in the Sterling B2B Integrator product, for integration with Azure Entra ID.Not just LDAP support.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Planned for future release

Support the update to routing rules during file activity

B2Bi documentation states that Mailbox Routing Rules or FIle Gateway Routing Channels should not be updated during periods of file activity. The consequences of ignoring this are not specified in any detail in the documentation. https://www.ibm.co...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Future consideration