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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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File replay on surviving data center using metadata from cassandra if the processing data center goes down

Currently , if the file is uploaded to the datacenter (DC) and that DC goes down, there is no way to replay that file until the DC comes up. This causes adverse impact on customer's business. Having this will help the production support to replay ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Future consideration

Enhance SSH Remote Profile to support both Key AND Password Authentication

Currently, SSH remote profile, admins can configure either key or password authentication. Requesting to support Key AND Password Authentication.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Allow Sterling Integrator to support STARTTLS SMTP when connecting to MS Office 365

I am geting the following error java.rmi.ServerException: RemoteException occurred in server thread; nested exception is:java.rmi.RemoteException: B2BMailSMTPImpl, mail cannot be sent because of an exception received from the server; nested except...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Not under consideration

Suggest a New Non Billable mailslot

When we onboard a new Trading partner for a VAN Customer, we create a non billable MQslot for a Trading partner using SQSF8xxx or SGIODxxx mailbox, implementers have to search for a new unused mailslot in MB01 by using various combination for the ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Not under consideration

To eliminate duplicate certificate in inflight import

Multiple teams import various certificates into legacy inflight, which results in duplicate certificates getting uploaded with a different name while the serial numbers for most of the certificates are same. When we import the certificate into Inf...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Not under consideration

Read REST API Client for POST

In the documentation, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/b2b-integrator/6.0.2?topic=z-rest-api-client-service, the outputpath is specified for a GET but we are attempting to POST. While the BP uses the path I've specified to write a file, it's a 0 byte f...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Under review

Italian E-invoicing: Time reporting between Inflight submitted date and reached SDI date

By law in Italy all EDI invoices need to be supplied to SDI within 12 calendar days. In order to find out if this is the case it is required to have data from Inflight to query. Currently the Event data when it is requesting SDI to approve or deny...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration

BP Exit Service

Add a "BP Exit Service", to cleanly terminate the current BP. Essentially the same as the "BP Exception Service" but without triggering an error.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

GM architecture deployed in zLinux

GM architecture increases the reliability of the suite but it's running only in midrange servers. Running Linux MZ (SSP not make sense) components (SBI/SEAS/KAS/ZK/MQ) on IBM zSeries or LinuxOne will bring a highest level of reliability, security ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 2 Not under consideration

Implement Exponential Retry Configuration for SFTP Connections

Concept: Introduce a feature that allows users to define exponential backoff retry policies for SFTP connection attempts. This means that if an initial connection fails, the system will automatically retry the connection after a short delay. If th...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Planned for future release