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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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Need a list of schedule timing for all active scheduled Business Process

We need a list of reporting consist of exact schedule for all active Business Process Schedule, currently need to look one by one, we have about 3000 Business Process therefore its hard to kept at looking one by one BP schedule for manageability
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Enhance RESTAPIClient service to retrieve headers

The current RESTAPIClient service is missing functionality to retrieve header information when calling an API. For example. When you do a call to an API (GET) with a custom header element (<X-CSRF-TOKEN>fetch</X-CSRF-TOKEN>) to fetch a...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Add AD Authentication option for Database Connections

Add support for AD authentication between SI and its database. This would allow the username/password to be managed outside of the application properties files and more easily align with company policies regarding password complexity and who has a...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Future consideration

We would like out of the box adapters for Sharepoint and SMB for file servers to allows file transfers to these endpoints

We move large volumes of files between servers and with some internal applications coming to the end of life they are turning to our MFT to transfer files from servers to sharepoint and file server (SMB). We would like to use built in adapter like...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Future consideration

Favorites Administration Menu

There are dozens of items on the Administration Menu, and I only use a fraction of them. Please allow users to mark, manage, and organize which pages of the Administration Menu they would like to be bookmarked. This list of favorite bookmarks can ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

security JDK modification to allow addition of ciphers for SI connecting to ldap

At the moment SI product wont allow it and for SDS (ldap) product remediation more strong ciphers has to be added with guidelines from CSO so intention was matching to all those ciphers on SI side. This would benefit everyone to matchup with secur...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

More than one MQ pool for Sterling B2Bi adaptors

There is a bug in sterling B2Bi websphere mq pool code that means that if you have: multiple qm's (qm A, B, C) connected to the one sterling instance Then one adaptor cannot access one queue manager (e.g. qm A goes down) the whole MQ pool becomes ...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

Global Mailbox aged documents or orphan file deletion

On a B2B Integrator software, where HighAvailability is not needed, the payload storage is on shared drive with a simple directory path /opt/b2bsi/documents/2024/01/..... the path has a linear map towards the payload storage. Even if payload gets ...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 5 Future consideration

Allow kerberos authentication for Sterling B2B Integrator to connect to it's database

Security policy in our organisation mandates that applications must use integrated / trusted authentication to connect to databases (rather than SQL authentication / username + password). I'm unable to find any IBM documentation regarding this for...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

Code List Metrics - How often used, and when last used

We currently use multiple code lists in our environment. Over the years, these code lists have grown exponentially. Unfortunately, we have no way of easily knowing how often a row within a code list is used, or when the last time that row was used...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration