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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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Fine grained authorisation for REST services

It seems any user in APIUser can execute any Product service. In our solution we might want to permission different users (identified by an access token , I've raised other Ideas for that) to have different access to services (proxied through the ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Support token based authentication for HTTP adapters and Product REST communications

We are using the 6.1 product REST, the REST Auth.war and a set of custom REST services (the latter two in HTTP Adapters). We have a security challenge on the use of Basic Auth for securing these services which we access via a gateway (Tyk) from a ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

MDC (Modification Detection Code) support for native PGP service with in the Sterling Integrator.

Other PGP software's like 'McAFee' supports MDC (Modification Detection Code).
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future consideration

Additional REST services

In our project, we have augmented the Sterling REST services with some other capabilities which we wrote as JAX-RS/Jersey REST services, hosted in a WAR in an HTTP Adapter. It would be good if you would consider in the roadmap providing the functi...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Implementing a new adapter to convert encoded XML string to process data.

I have a BP which converts a JSON to XML using xmljsontransformer. The XML is then saved in textual format in the process data ("Output" tag) and subsequently I have to convert it to XML always in the process data. If get the output from the file ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Future consideration

Support/document health endpoints in REST services

It would be useful to have actuator-like health endpoints in the product's REST and REST Authentication WAR services so that a gateway or load-balancer can gracefully work with the services. If these exist, just documenting them would be great.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 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...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 3 Future consideration

Double quotes in XML output display as (") in SI 6

SI602 and SI6103 can’t display double quotes(“) in XML output but display as " SI6 display double quotes as " *SI6.png SI525 display double quotes as “ *SI525.png
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Adding ACL parameters for AWS S3 PUT service

Adding ACL parameters for AWS S3 PUT service for communication between cross account for S3 bucket. This is private S3 bucket.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Future consideration

RE: 64 Character Limitation In Email section on SI User Accounts

Hi Team, We noticed that there is a 64 character length limitation in email section on SI user accounts, please check the attached screenshot for better understanding to what I'm referring to. 64 character length limitation is not sufficient for o...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Future consideration