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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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SFTP: Emit a Communication Session entry (or equivalent event) for each authentication failure attempt, including attempt number and reason

Product / Component IBM Sterling B2B Integrator / SFG – SFTP Server Adapter Current Behavior For SFTP, authentication may fail up to multiple times within a single SSH session negotiation. These failures do not produce distinct Communication Sessi...
8 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Submitted

Include wildcard support in Sterling B2B for C:D transfers

Hello, We have identified that the wildcard (*) function for sending or receiving with the C:D Sterling adapter does not work. It is unable to automatically detect all possible files located in a mailbox using the wildcard. While it does copy the ...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 3 Needs more information

Global Cleanup Logic in External Purge Process

The external purge functionality in B2BI has shown significant improvement compared to the internal purge mechanism. However, further enhancements are needed to ensure the database and file system remain lightweight, scalable, and cost-efficient i...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Submitted

Amazon Resource Name (ARN) roles for integration between S3 adapter and S3 buckets.

Today, SBI only supports access to AWS S3 buckets via secret and access keys. While keys can be configured, the preference from our security and cloud team is to have ARN roles supported as key management becomes difficult with rotating keys every...
8 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Submitted

LZ4 compression in Kafka consumer adapter

The Kafka consumer adapter is unable to retrieve messages from Kafka topics that have LZ4 compression. Is there a solution in the Sterling Integrator Kafka settings, or how should we manage this? Without compression, there will be many concerns wi...
8 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Submitted

Need more access methods other than SAS token in transfer from Sterling Integrator to Azure Blob Storage

We are currently looking into the options for the Sterling to Blob write options with the newly available Object Store Client Adapter as mentioned below. Object Store Client Adapter - IBM Documentation With the setup provided in the guidance, we c...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 5 Future consideration

Support Oracle RAC in load balance mode

IBM's largest customers have invested heavily to implement Oracle RAC databases for resilience but due to the way B2Bi's database is designed there are performance implications to switching on RAC load balance mode. This forces all queries to a si...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Submitted

Enhance QueueWatcher extraction workflow id and bp names and how many milliseconds it ran to Kafka EventStreams

Request to enhance the QueueWatcher extraction functionality to capture and publish additional metadata—specifically Workflow ID, Business Process names, and execution time in milliseconds—to Kafka EventStreams for improved observability and analy...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Problems when resuming a BP on certain type of errors

In some cases, that can be reproduced, when a Business Process is running and a database outage occurs, this BPs goes into a halted status with "Rollback Transaction Error" and "Commit Transaction Error" errors. This situation appears to create so...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

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