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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 TLS Certificate authentication in SMTP adapter

Migrating to Microsoft Cloud-hosted SMTP Relay using port 25. Applications are required to have company domain issued TLS certificate for communication when sending to users outside the company.
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Future consideration

SFTP change setting authentication order (password, publickey) in the Two-factor authentication

In Sterling B2B Integrator both the SFTP Server and SFTP Client have Two-factor authentication (publickey, password) are configured to have the authentication sequence fixed as password authentication after public key authentication. However, for ...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

RestAPIs support to Create/Update and Delete MAP Files

This will help us to include Maps for our CICD Pipeline where we are updating B2Bi Assets using B2Bi RestAPIs.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Future consideration

We need to a native support of OpenSSL encryption as we have for PGP

Banks needs different ways to enrypt files at rest, and they need native support from the sterling solution instead of using CLI adaprter or other mehods
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration

Add Solace to the list of supported vendors for JMS 1.1

Right now Solace is not listed under the supported vendors and configurations for JMS 1.1: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/b2b-integrator/6.2.0?topic=adapters-supported-vendors-configurations-jms-11
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under 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...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Future consideration

API to verify the Heartbeat of B2Bi/SFG

API to verify the Heartbeat of B2Bi/SFG, we can achieve Heartbeat of B2Bi/SFG by calling Hello world http adapter with hello world bp. Here is a chance of raising false alarm though application is up & running state, but HTTP adapter is in dow...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

HTTP Proxy enablement on B2B Mail client Adapter

With the addition of OAuth2.0 authentication on Sterling B2B Mail client Adapter all connections to the Microsoft exchange server will now happen on Micro Soft cloud, which means that connection earlier would stay within the company's network, but...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Not under consideration

For Sterling Integrator container based deployment with ITX integration should have option to pass config-vars.mcv

For Sterling Integrator container based deployment with ITX integration should have option to pass config-vars.mcv

SSO and OAuth support for authenticating B2BAPI access

At minimum would need to able to use the SEAS SAML like tokens to allow authentication of APIUser for B2BAPI calls. Liberty Profile native supports both SAML /OAuth authentication and the current instance does authenticate with B2Bi so it should a...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Planned for future release