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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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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...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Support Native Authentication to SQL server databases in jdbc pools

Security teams are asking for zero trust setups when connecting systems to each other. Part of that is wanting to use centralized service accounts instead of local access. currently, B2Bi is only supported to make SQL server pools with local authe...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 5 Not under consideration

Support Multiple CA certificates in HTTP client adapters

We have partners that are starting to deploy systems in multiple geographic zones in an active/active configuration. Each zone is presenting its own SSL certificate. For smooth processing, it would be ideal if a list of certificates could be provi...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Future consideration

Addition of RSASSA-PSS signing algorithm to IBM Sterling Integrator B2B

This singing algorithm was requested by a partner that we trade EDI messages with. They provided us with their new AS2 OCES3 certificate, which used RSASSA-PSS as the signing algorithm. What resulted was that we were able to transmit file but we n...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Future consideration

GnuPG latest version (2.2.x) integration with B2Bi 6.x

After upgrade of B2Bi from 5.2.6.x to 6.1.1.0, we are no longer able to use GnuPG. 6.1.1.0 has supported OS for RHEL 7/8. Newer RHEL versions have latest GnuPG installed on it as base package configuration where we are getting (2.2.x) version. B2B...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under 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...
almost 3 years 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...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

Myfilegateway 2.0 - merge Upload and Download views

Hello IBM team, currently, the "Upload" and "Download" views are splited in two distinct parts. This type of views create confusion from an end user point of view. Our proposal is to merge the "Upload" and "Download" views in order to hav...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

B2B System Logs UI - Logging Level Should Exist on All Logs

Currently, if you are in B2B -> System Logs UI and attempt to edit Log Settings for a log, you are offered two different scenarios: Scenario 1 - You are provided the Roll Over Interval drop-down and a Logging Level of "on" or "off". Scenario 2 ...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

API Endpoint for Document Envelopes

We are currently querying the SI tables directly to get data related to trading partner document envelopes. We prefer to use API endpoints to query data from our management tools.
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration