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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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Connect to SMB shares from Sterling B2B Integrator hosted on Unix / Linux

For Sterling Integrator hosted on Unix/Linux OS, there is no direct capability to exchange files with Windows Network Shared folders. The recommended solution from IBM for this is to use a samba client on the Unix/Linux machine and mount the windo...
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

Add support for HTTPS Content-Type: multipart/form-data

IBM Support states that the below is unsupported by SI: curl -X POST "https://$address/api/files" \ -H "Accept: application/json" \ -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \ -H "Authorization: 550f9407-146a-4542-bdfb-428acbd558f3" \ -F "file=@...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Information systems which implement HTML 5 must adhere to the HTML 5 Security Standard.

Information systems which implement HTML 5 must adhere to the HTML 5 Security Standard. Changes to any other properties for the purpose of preventing cross-site vulnerabilities are not supported. Reference: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/b2b-integrat...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 3 Not under consideration

All input (user and service) must be validated on the server side to permit only the allowed characters and limited field length necessary for the corresponding function.

All input (user and service) must be validated on the server side to permit only the allowed characters and limited field length necessary for the corresponding function.
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Not under consideration

Update db_optimization_tool.sh to support Oracle and other DB Vendors

In the past IBM provided the db_optimization_tool.sh script with B2B Integrator to facilitate index reorgs with MySQL DBs. Several companies such as my own will only implement vendor scripts for index reorgs. Can IBM update that script and supply it.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Indicate Perimeter Servers which do not have a Service Adapter using it

In Troubleshooter, SI shows the current status of Perimeter Servers. This is the location where users are able to disable/enable the PS. On this same screen, it could also show a count of how many service adapters are using each perimeter server.e...
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

compression at the HTTP layer

It would be good to have option like (something like compress="True") to compress the file at HTTP layer, to achieve this do we have any parameter set any of the HTTP Services/adapter level at HTTP Begin Session service/HTTP Client Method service ...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under 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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under 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...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Support for with PostgreSQL

The request is for IBM Sterling B2B integrator and SFG to support PostgreSQL
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration