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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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accessing specific folder inside a AWS S3 bucket with list action

Currently, Adapater has capability yto list files and folders in bucket, but not in the specific folder. Only get option available, not list. Usually access is restricted to folder, not to bucket.
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

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...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

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

Support NetApp StorageGRID S3 Implementation

Many IBM customers have NetApp storage as part of their infrastructure. NetApp's StorageGRID offering (https://www.netapp.com/data-storage/storagegrid/) provides native support for S3 APIs. Adding support for this implementation of those APIs will...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Future consideration

SFTP Client GET Service - input parameter to set a max number of files processed

We are using the operation SFTPClientGet and the parameter RemoteFilePattern to do a multiple get. See the below example. We would like to have an input parameter allowing us to set a maximum number of files processed during one sftp get opera...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 6 Not under consideration

Allow custom path configuration of Extended Rule Library path in the Sterling Mapper

Currently the Sterling Mapper defaults to a path of C:\Program Files (x86)\Sterling Commerce\Map Editor\Extended Rule Library due to security policies some users are not able to place their Extended Rule Libraries to that location. The desired beh...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 Submitted

Preserve text as text and Booleans as Booleans

We received the following XML:<CAD05><false</CAD05> The XML is defined as a "string" in the XML Schema. We output this to JSON to a field also defined as "string" in the JSON Schema. Yet, even with TEXT() or PACKAGE() calls the outp...

Azure Event Hub Native Connectivity & Service Principal Authentication

Request that IBM provide native connectivity to Microsoft Event Hub in B2bi with authentication via Microsoft Entra id service principal. Unlike the current configuration option which supports secret key or account key, the enhancement would suppo...
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Future consideration

Azure Blob Storage Service Principal

Request that IBM update the object store client adapter to support authentication via Microsoft Entra id service principal. Unlike the current configuration option which supports secret key or account key, the enhancement would support configuring...
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Planned for future release

Enhancement request for SIP support on AWS Keyspaces

We are requesting an enhancement to enable support for Sterling Integration Platform (SIP) on AWS Keyspaces. Currently, SIP is not certified to run on AWS Keyspaces, which limits deployment flexibility for cloud-native architectures. SIP is certif...
6 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration