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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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user defined replication criteria of files in a global mailbox

Customer wants to use global mailbox but wants to decide for each partner as to allow replication or not. And this decision for a partner depends on multiple factors like filesize, filename, duration etc. So a partner's global mailbox could allow ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Not under consideration

File replay on surviving data center using metadata from cassandra if the processing data center goes down

Currently , if the file is uploaded to the datacenter (DC) and that DC goes down, there is no way to replay that file until the DC comes up. This causes adverse impact on customer's business. Having this will help the production support to replay ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Future consideration

enable file transfer using smb protocol

In the current state, we will need to mount the samba file shares on the Sterling B2B Integrator hosted servers to be able to access the servers. It would be good to access the files using smb protocol without the need to mount the file shares.
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 2 Not under consideration

File Extraction Notification

Within the global mailbox administrator, we can see in the extraction criteria tab of mailbox explorer the date/time that a file is extracted either by file delivery from SFG/GM or by the client pulling the file from the mailbox. Our issue is that...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 4 Future 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

Needed feature to disable User Account and corresponding RestAPI

Currently in Sterling B2B Integrator Product, user account can be either edited or deleted, there is not option to "disable" it. There are business scenarios where business need to disable user account for certain period of time (days or months) a...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Revive Health Check Utility for Sterling Integrator

We had been widely using the Health Check Utility to examine the health and performance of the application on a weekly basis. After the utility was removed from recent versions, we are having difficulty validating the application on a routine basi...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under 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...
over 2 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...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Not under consideration

Include ability to specify CD properties overrides in customer_overrides.properties file

Include ability to specify CD properties overrides in customer_overrides.properties file From https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS3JSW_6.0.3/administering/administering/integrator/SI_PrpFile_Overriding_Props_Using_cust_overrides.html The...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Planned for future release