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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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Allow passwords longer than 28 characters for LDAP users

The password field on the SBI dashboard login page is restricted to a maximum of 28 characters. However external users who are using LDAP for authentication can have passwords longer than this value, which makes it impossible for these users to lo...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Planned for future release

SFG does not accept any host key except RSA and DSS. Also there should be a configuration mechanism for ciphers.

SFG does not support any client Known Host Key except RSA and DSS. Now a days a significant number of clients are using Open SSH which uses ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 as the primary cipher and unfortunately SFG does not support that. We have at least 10 ...
about 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

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...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Planned for future release

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-...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

Add support for FASP in Sterling B2B Integrator

support for FASP protocol require in Sterling B2B Integrator
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 2 Future consideration

Capabilities to connect to Google Cloud Storage bucket

Currently there is no adapter or services which enables us to connect to a Google cloud storage bucket. It would be really good to have this functionality.
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Planned for future release

SI's bpml should support XPath 3.1

When writing Xpath in bp's, the xpath supported is XPath 1.0, which was published in 1999. XPath is currently up to version 3.1.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 3 Future consideration

Reject clearly the SSH key when unencrypted

When checking-in a new SSH user identity key, if the key is not encrypted, then SBI accepts it anyway but the key is unusable (check-out failure). If SBI requires the key to be encrypted then it should mention it clearly and it should not allow th...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 1 Future consideration

Postgresql as database (or support sqlserver emulated on aurora - aws babelfish)

We need support on aws aurora or aws sqlserver emulated by aurora (babelfish) as databases for sterling. Aurora is growing more and more and offers several benefits which make it very attractive for companies like ours. In our case, we have moved ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

Generative AI for creating B2Bi BPs like Copilot from github

Customer are asking us what is our roadmap to implement AI features in Sterling Data Exchange solutions focused on SCCM, SFG and B2Bi. As a leader of MFT/B2B Integration they would like to know our postion regarding that. For example, is it possib...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration