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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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Enable SNI support for SSL Cert Grabber

Currently if you use the SSL Cert Grabber to pull back a certificate from an endpoint that is using SNI to determine which TLS certificate to return, you will not get the correct TLS cert, but the TLS cert for the base domain. This can make it dif...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Submitted

Protect usage of the 'decrypt_string.sh|cmd' command

The database password stored in sandbox.cfg can be encrypted, but the facility to decrypt it is readily available within the installation (i.e. "decrypt_string.cmd|sh"). A user with access to the SFG installation directory would therefore not have...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 4 Future consideration

Add metadata parameters to S3 object storage GET and PUT

The S3 APIs allow for adding headers to the bucket object GET and PUT to include user metadata (see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/UsingMetadata.html). Adding these as parameters passed to and from the AWS S3 Client Service ...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

Utility to keep Cassandra tables in sync

There are times when Cassandra nodes may get out of sync and some of the nodes may deem it appropriate to bring back records that should no longer belong in the tables. For example: mailbox.messages, mailbox.messages_by_name and mailbox.messages_b...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Not under consideration

Log Standards

Some customers has the need to read the logs using some realtime observability tools, such as Prometheus, Splunk. There is some difficulties on integrating those actual logs of Sterling B2B Integrator with the new standards. This request has the g...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Future consideration

Automatic recovery for critical failures such as database failures

We have an SFG/B2B environment installed on Linux/AIX machines and in tests simulating the loss of the database we noticed that after the database becomes operational, SFG/B2B does not recover, making it necessary to perform a STOP/START of the pr...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Functionality already exists

Support NetApp StorageGRID S3 Implementation

Many IBM customers have NetApp storage as part of their infrastructure. NetApp's StorageGRID offering (https://www.netapp.com/data-storage/storagegrid/) provides native support for S3 APIs. Adding support for this implementation of those APIs will...

API to get queueWatch informations

The queueWatch monitors several components of IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and manage definitions and configurations of the queues. This tool is recommended to cases where the customer has the need on watching queues on realtime and their informati...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Future consideration

File System Adapter (FSA) Timeout

Customer has BPs that writes and/or reads files to/from a NFS server. Once there was a problem of slowness in their NFS server where the NFS response was very slow. There are thousand of workflows running at that time SFG collapsed after a certain...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Future consideration

10 years lifespan service

There is a 10 year lifespan for the mailbox messages and it's workflows and data entry related. At the moment the way to clean this messages and all database entrys is creating a BP that deletes the messages and managing the associate bp to doc se...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Not under consideration