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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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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

Add support for EDIFACT Syntax Version 'X' in UNB envelope

It appears that the latest EDIFACT standards ("VDA-EDIFACT" for automotive) allow for an 'X' to be used as the syntax version in the UNB envelope. Unfortunately, doing so fails both enveloping and de-enveloping in SB2Bi (as confirmed by IBM PMR TS...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 2 Submitted

Enhance QueueWatcher extraction workflow id and bp names and how many milliseconds it ran to Kafka EventStreams

Request to enhance the QueueWatcher extraction functionality to capture and publish additional metadata—specifically Workflow ID, Business Process names, and execution time in milliseconds—to Kafka EventStreams for improved observability and analy...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Problems when resuming a BP on certain type of errors

In some cases, that can be reproduced, when a Business Process is running and a database outage occurs, this BPs goes into a halted status with "Rollback Transaction Error" and "Commit Transaction Error" errors. This situation appears to create so...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

SAPSTAT Inflight logging

Currently, in the SAPSTAT flow, we are unable to override Inflight tracking details such as ExtraInfo1, ExtraInfo2, ExtraInfo3, and Reference Number. These fields are tracked with the same values as the original outbound document from the client. ...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Allow DENY permissions for the SCHEDULER

For example, for out-of-hours incidents, we would like to allow a certain operator-type role to be able to Disable a scheduled business process or service but not to be able to modify the actual schedule itself. Currently the on-duty operator has ...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Support Oracle RAC in load balance mode

IBM's largest customers have invested heavily to implement Oracle RAC databases for resilience but due to the way B2Bi's database is designed there are performance implications to switching on RAC load balance mode. This forces all queries to a si...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Under review

Improving the IBM B2Bi Sterling Integrator logic when a system certificate expires

The B2Bi Sterling Integrator product does not seamlessly pick up or scan the system (netmap or adapters) for a new/valid certificate after a CA expires. As an IBM customer and a long term B2B Sterling Integrator consumer, on two separate occasions...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Support Acknowledgement Reconciliations for NONEDI flows

We are currently supporting acknowledgment reconciliations for OUTBOUND EDI documents only based on inbound "997/CONTRL" documents. Customer wants IBM to support acknowledgement reconciliations for NONEDI interfaces as well. They are sending outbo...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Out of box utility script to run on Sterling nodes to fetch CD adapters certificates for validation to make sure change is reflected on all cluster nodes to avoid impact to customers traffic

We had a critical incident in our production system (Case TS018513193 Critical issue - All Banks are not able to connect B2Bi Sterling) because of renewed CD certificate was not reflected across all customer nodes of B2Bi.All Banks are not able to...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

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