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Extend the use of Perimeter Server to Object Store Client Adapter

If Perimeter Server could support connections made from the Object Store Client Adapter it would be simple for customers to enable a connection and centralizing the entire deployment on the same Sterling platform
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Allow individual customization for FTP mailboxes

Requesting control to customize individual mailboxes to flag inbound documents with multiple flags. Examples would be allowing customers to send a document to us via their FTP mailbox and it would flag documents based on customized file name, size...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Need SFG to ignore the case for user name

We want the clients ability to connect to SFG using an userid not worrying about case, I.e., say in SFG the user id is called DTCCTEST we want the user to be able to use any case dtcctest or DTCCTEST or DTCCTest etc and SFG to be able to allow the...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Unable to take backup for property files from custom GUI in Sterling B2B INtegrator - 6.1.2.0

Currently we are running Sterling Integrator version 6.1.2 on OCP. There is no option for us to take the backup of property files from Custom GUI.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

Partner Level Authentication

We are starting to see more and more customers want to move to SSH Key only auth, however, we are not set to that today, nor are all of our customers ready/willing to make that switch. Since the authentication requirement is set at a system level,...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration

gmsa account

Azure provide GMSA account for their customers . As per IBM (Case TS011227338) IBM is not supporing GMSA account for installation .
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

BPID shows active on queue watcher but UI shows terminated, some how the queue watcher JVM is out of synch with UI

I believe this being a bug or lack of functionality, Although this particular BPID was terminated from the UI then also via the command line -ControllerWorkFlow script but will not be remove from queue watcher! And also showed as terminated on UI....
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Alert mechanism for when Active BPs reach a certain threshold

Customizable alert mechanism of Active BPs - When Active BPs reach a certain threshold alert email should be sent. If we get this option in IBM B2Bi, it will be of great help as it is a proactive measure for Admins / stakeholders who supports IBM ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

OCP cluster/Linux SFG instance : Integrated authentication of MSSQL 2019 database

SFG setup using MSSQL 2019 database, Current our MSSQL supports only integrated authentication, we need to inputs here. 1. Does SFG supports integrated authentication? 2. if yes how to pass the custom parameter in the connection string "integrated...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Show more detail, on progress bar, when using IIM to upgrade B2Bi

Upgrading B2Bi v6.0 to v6.1 took almost two hours. For the majority of that time, IIM's progress bar sat at (about) 60%. It would be helpful to see what it's doing or even update the progress bar more frequently.
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 2 Not under consideration