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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...

Sterling B2B Integrator

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JSON Layout Generator

As part of Map Change team we receive requests for JSON map development. JSON maps layout will be differ from typical maps as the expected output is human readable text to store and transmit data objects consisting of attribute–value pairs and arr...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 3 Planned for future release

Putting a limit for number of files being transferred in some time

we have decided to apply a limit on few of the partners not to dump more than 1000 files in 30 minutes. Otherwise they keep on dumping tonns of files in very short time (like 20 to 30 mins) which ends up consuming all the resources by this partner...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Customer is expecting a product feature to collect the must gathers rather running a script to collect

LFG has been using B2Bi product for their key business use-cases. Whenever a product issue / project issue occurs, the support team is asking to collect 4-5 different logs. This is tedious job as they have to run customized script to collect the r...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

We need an ability to create user name upto 60characters and email address upto 68 characters in B2Bi

We have a requirement to onboardi-ng partners with the user name upto 60 chars and email address up to 68 chars, and currently we noticed b2bi only allows 36chars in the user name field and 64chars in the email address field, and so can you provid...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Enable authentication by token on the Sterling B2B REST API

Seems like currently the B2B REST API only supports authentication of basic type, where username/password is sent in header of get/post/put HTTP call. Can there be a mechanism to authenticate via bearer token? Thanks very much!
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Planned for future release

Compliance for SWIFT members with MFA for internal users

In relation to the SWIFT Customer Security Programme, the Customer Security Controls Framework V2023, there is a mandatory requirement for relevant in scope components to implement and maintain Multi-Factor Authentication when internal operators’ ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 1 Future consideration

Enhancing the Password Policy

No description provided
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 3 Functionality already exists

Require MEIG to perform certificate matching on unique values

In a scenario where multiple CA certificates having the same value for the DN Subject parameter exist in the database, MEIG can retrieve the wrong CA certificate and cause a valid Trading Partner certificate to incorrectly be interpreted as invali...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Planned for future release

Have the ability to import a public and secret key ring into native PGP for B2Bi.

I believe that this functionality would be useful for the user community to be able to import an entire key ring (both public and secret) instead of having to import the keys individually.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to correlate deferred documents with the ST control number assigned to them at time of enveloping

For each document that we process and defer, we lose track of the specific control numbers that are assigned at the time of enveloping. For instance, if you defer 5 separate documents at various times and later run enveloping, we need a method to ...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration