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Allow Remote Profiles to have two passwords attached (Primary and Backup)

Attempt passwords in order when establishing the remote connection When a password is updated, automatically move the current value to the backup password and set the new value to the primary password. For key-based authentication, allow primary a...

Improve SPOE update process in containers so that a helm install is not required

Currently, when making an update to the SPOE file, the process requires the file to be pulled in via a helm install. In an enterprise environment, there tend to be limitations on what can be done during business hours as part of normal configurati...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Functionality already exists

Limit MIO Work Queue Data by New Discipline Specific MRP Controllers from SAP

Currently the Work Queue Sets are limited only by Plant, however much of the time spares can be a mix of onshore and offshore locations depending on how close the teams need access to the stock, also due to the set up of maintenance / and the engi...
8 days ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Enhancement Request - Partner Community Name update in Sterling File Gateway

Problem Statement: Currently, when a partner's community name needs to be updated in Sterling File Gateway, there is no direct "edit" functionality available for existing partners. The only apparent method to change a partner's community is to del...

SFTP: Emit a Communication Session entry (or equivalent event) for each authentication failure attempt, including attempt number and reason

Product / Component IBM Sterling B2B Integrator / SFG – SFTP Server Adapter Current Behavior For SFTP, authentication may fail up to multiple times within a single SSH session negotiation. These failures do not produce distinct Communication Sessi...
8 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Submitted

Include wildcard support in Sterling B2B for C:D transfers

Hello, We have identified that the wildcard (*) function for sending or receiving with the C:D Sterling adapter does not work. It is unable to automatically detect all possible files located in a mailbox using the wildcard. While it does copy the ...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 3 Needs more information

Global Cleanup Logic in External Purge Process

The external purge functionality in B2BI has shown significant improvement compared to the internal purge mechanism. However, further enhancements are needed to ensure the database and file system remain lightweight, scalable, and cost-efficient i...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Submitted

Provide ProcessID as top-level field in the InFlight search screen

We would prefer to have the 'Process ID' displayed as a top-level field on the InFlight search screen, instead of being hidden under the 'Business Fields' section.
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Amazon Resource Name (ARN) roles for integration between S3 adapter and S3 buckets.

Today, SBI only supports access to AWS S3 buckets via secret and access keys. While keys can be configured, the preference from our security and cloud team is to have ARN roles supported as key management becomes difficult with rotating keys every...
8 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Submitted

LZ4 compression in Kafka consumer adapter

The Kafka consumer adapter is unable to retrieve messages from Kafka topics that have LZ4 compression. Is there a solution in the Sterling Integrator Kafka settings, or how should we manage this? Without compression, there will be many concerns wi...
9 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Submitted