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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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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.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Future consideration

Add support for the "OPTS UTF8 ON" FTP Client command/parameter.

Beginning with Windows Server 2016, the Microsoft FTP Client includes the "OPTS UTF8 ON" command. The Sterling B2B Integrator FTP Server does not support this command, and returns a 501 error message. This "OPTS UTF8 ON" command is included in RFC...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Future consideration

Local "admin" account logon logs should be captured

Recently, we observed one issue with by default local accounts logon logs in Sterling Integrator application. Logs are getting captured when the authentication log is in debug mode. Logs are not getting captured when authentication log is in non-d...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

Implicit SSL is making a comeback with some sites due to its immediate application of SSL

Implicit SSL is generally not considered a best practice when setting up FTPS. The preferred alternative is Explicit SSL, which is the current standard for FTPS connections for B2B Integrator. However, some of our customers experience intense busi...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

view inbound acknowledgment for outbound document

In EDI Correlation, view inbound acknowledgment for outbound document. If the partner partially accepts or rejects outbound document, it would be useful to easily view the partner's inbound acknowledgment for the outbound document.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 3 Future consideration

Enhance WMQ Suite adapters to support CCDT or CONNECTIONNAMELIST property and move to MQJM

Current WMQ Suite adapter is Based on MQ for JAVA technology and CCDTURL property is not exposed for configuration. Also the MQJB is matured and no further updates to the client is planned by IBM "IBM will make no further enhancements to the IBM M...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Future consideration

Accept Signed EERP Requests OFTP2

I recently went added an OFTP2 connection in PROD between IBM customer Thyssen Krupp and their TP WST. We send the file successfully and TP has confirmed they receive the file successfully put it stays in "processing" status on our side as if they...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 0 Future consideration

Enhance AS2 logging to include TLS information

Currently, Sterling Integrator logs if the connection is using TLS. However, it is lacking the TLS family such as TLS 1.0, TLS1.2, etc.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Mail MIME Service Attachment with Asian characters

Currently when using the Mail Mime Service with FSA to extract attachments, it seems FSA uses the "name" inside "ContentType*" as FileName. Unfortunately for "ContentTypes", Mail Mime Service doesn't seems to be able to read the "name" correctly w...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Sterling Integrator SSP SEAS SSO OKTA connection

Sterling Integrator SSP SEAS SSO OKTA connection
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Future consideration