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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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Failed to authenticate with SFTP/FTPs, doesn't display any information of the source

Hi currently, we have a policy to lock an account after 3 failed connections on SFTP or FTPs protocol. In the communication session, it's possible to have the IP source when the authentication is successfull, but when the connection failed, the IP...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 5 Functionality already exists

Enhance REST API Client service to allow connection via DMZ / Perimeter server

Currently REST API Client service can establish connection to REST API endpoint via local perimeter or proxy only. This presents an issue while connecting to external partners. Request is to enhance REST API Client service to allow configuration f...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 3 Functionality already exists

SFG does not accept any host key except RSA and DSS. Also there should be a configuration mechanism for ciphers.

SFG does not support any client Known Host Key except RSA and DSS. Now a days a significant number of clients are using Open SSH which uses ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 as the primary cipher and unfortunately SFG does not support that. We have at least 10 ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

Support for Azure SQL Server PaaS

Allow Azure SQL server platform as a service as a supported database.
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Functionality already exists

customer overrides properties for liberty profile server.xml

We would like to have customer overrides setting to be used in the server.xml of the liberty profile instance managing the B2Bi API's.
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

Need an API to check the template Details in Sterling File Gateway

Input of the API: "Template Name" Response: "Template Type(Static/Dynamic)", "Groups assigned to the template", "Provisioning facts assigned to the templates" etc.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Functionality already exists

Streamline Global Mailbox Install/Upgrade Process

To upgrade/install Global Mailbox is a large and complex process. My current Global Mailbox production environment encompasses two data centers, each containing the following (4 SFG/GM servers, 6 Cassandra/Zookeeper servers, 2 MQ servers). We are ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 2 Functionality already exists

File Transmission API for B2Bi

No description provided
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Functionality already exists

Capture partner TLS version information during handshake

For all communications protocols (FTPs, SFTP, AS2, ConnectDirect etc), we would like to capture TLS version in logs. In case of upgrades, it helps to work with respective partners to upgrade to supported TLS version.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Functionality already exists

Adapter Containers: Allow container-specific JVM arguments

Right now, if you want to add custom JVM arguments to adapter containers (say for JVM monitoring), this is done via the Performance Tuning wizard. The wizard provides only one field for custom JVM arguments, which are then applied to all adapter c...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists