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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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Allow DENY permissions for the SCHEDULER

For example, for out-of-hours incidents, we would like to allow a certain operator-type role to be able to Disable a scheduled business process or service but not to be able to modify the actual schedule itself. Currently the on-duty operator has ...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Out of box utility script to run on Sterling nodes to fetch CD adapters certificates for validation to make sure change is reflected on all cluster nodes to avoid impact to customers traffic

We had a critical incident in our production system (Case TS018513193 Critical issue - All Banks are not able to connect B2Bi Sterling) because of renewed CD certificate was not reflected across all customer nodes of B2Bi.All Banks are not able to...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Automatic reconfiguration of primary cluster node

It would be so much easier to migrate and not create a new databases just for adding or removing old nodes. Easier for maintenance and scalability as well.

Improving the IBM B2Bi Sterling Integrator logic when a system certificate expires

The B2Bi Sterling Integrator product does not seamlessly pick up or scan the system (netmap or adapters) for a new/valid certificate after a CA expires. As an IBM customer and a long term B2B Sterling Integrator consumer, on two separate occasions...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

accessing specific folder inside a AWS S3 bucket with list action

Currently, Adapater has capability yto list files and folders in bucket, but not in the specific folder. Only get option available, not list. Usually access is restricted to folder, not to bucket.
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

Multi-Factor Authentication for Sterling Integrator 6.x

Requesting Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for Sterling Integrator 6.x Dashboard console log in. Currently, the application allows to create account locally or integrated with AD. Requesting MFA to add another layer of security and authentication.
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future 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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Future consideration

Support the update to routing rules during file activity

B2Bi documentation states that Mailbox Routing Rules or FIle Gateway Routing Channels should not be updated during periods of file activity. The consequences of ignoring this are not specified in any detail in the documentation. https://www.ibm.co...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Submitted

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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Future consideration