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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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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

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

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 ...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

Allow Sterling Integrator to support STARTTLS SMTP when connecting to MS Office 365

I am geting the following error java.rmi.ServerException: RemoteException occurred in server thread; nested exception is:java.rmi.RemoteException: B2BMailSMTPImpl, mail cannot be sent because of an exception received from the server; nested except...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Not under consideration

Installer fails to create ASISslCert certificate for getCanonicalHostName() method in Java

Installer fails to create ASISslCert certificate for some Windows enviroments.Installer calls getCanonicalHostName() method in Java ,and receive IP address instead of the server hostname for some security or settings.
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Under review

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 ...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 5 Future consideration

Sterling B2B Integrator Container version ability to map to window servers

We are in the middle of a project to move from B2B/SFG on a Windows VM to a container environment using Red Hat OpenShift. The hold up for this project is our ability to map to windows servers. We have over 700 shares/directories to map. It is cri...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Planned for future release

Show source IP and user in log for ALL attempts

It is useful to scan logs with security tools to look for patterns in brute force access to the B2B Integrator instance. None of the logs today contain the real source IP of connection attempts. Only certain logs show the perimeter server IP the r...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Functionality already exists

Multi Factor Authentication for Administrator accounts

Need to be able to require Multi Factor Authentication for administrative accounts in B2BI, SSPCM, SEAS.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Not under consideration

Read REST API Client for POST

In the documentation, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/b2b-integrator/6.0.2?topic=z-rest-api-client-service, the outputpath is specified for a GET but we are attempting to POST. While the BP uses the path I've specified to write a file, it's a 0 byte f...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Under review