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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...
PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...

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Sterling Integrator supports 16 characters for Connect Direct Node name and would need PEM as well to be supporting 16 characters.

when customers who are using SI wants to use PEM and they have nodes in SI with 16 characters but from PEM they are not able to. so it will help them to use pem if this is enabled in pem.
about 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 1 Is a defect

PRINCIPAL column in ACT_SESSION table is too short

Error in logs indicating data truncation on PRINCIPAL column in ACT_SESSION table. ERROR 000000000000 GLOBAL_SCOPE DmiVisEventWarehouseQueue.Worker.executeStatementsAsExecutor had a SQL exception from pstmnt: PreparedStatementHelper: SQL: UPDATE A...

SFTP Client Adapter “ResponseTimeout” setting does not have the desired effect causing hung BP activity

SFTP Client Adapter “ResponseTimeout” setting does not have the desired effect causing hung BP activity Documentation Reference Links for B2BI 5.2.x/6.0.3/6.1.0: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS3JSW_5.2.0/com.ibm.help.svcs_adpts_m_z....

Support of IBM WebSphere MQ 9.2

IBM have not claimed support for WebSphere MQ 9.2 support in Sterling B2B Integrator.The enhancement request is for the support of WebSphere MQ 9.2 in Sterling B2B Integrator. The latest version of IBM WebSphere MQ is 9.0.0.4.

SFTP Error Reporting

With SI v6.0 and above the error reporting to SFTP has changed, with earlier versions we used to get clear failure messages like 'Known host keys mismatch', etc, whereas now we get more of a generic message like 'SSH_DISCONNECT_BY_APPLICATION:SFTP...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Is a defect

Show actual SFTP error in status report

Sterling 6.0 and up, in some cases, has replaced useful, specific SFTP error messages in the status report with vague ones that require diving into logs to troubleshoot. For example, if the host key is wrong when connecting to a partner, this is w...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Is a defect

Verify ControllerWorkflow is functioning properly in 6.0.2.1 with regard to force terminate

ControllerWorkflow.sh doesn't seem to be force terminating a BP when it is in a halting or active state when the BP shows it is in wait queue.
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 2 Is a defect

MQ connection pooling druing put sesions in WS MQ suite adapters in SBI

Prior to 5.2 6..3 (when were in 5.2 1) the MQ put sessions were using connection pool After the upgrade to 5.2.6;3 under the WS MQ suite service adapters - the MQ Put session connection are established & teared down on per message basis This c...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Is a defect

Update Adapter log in SSP 6000 just as SSP343

To identify the IP or Subnet to be whitelisted. Hi Team, There is a difference in the way the IP/DNS are getting logged in the Adapter logs in SSP 6000 than SSP 343. This has become an issue as we are not able to differentiate between an IP/...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Is a defect

CoC 19.1 SBC extensibility workbench opened in Firefox 60.x forces installation of jsLib that is incompatible with Firefox 60.x

Environment Info CoC 19.1 devtoolkit Problem Statement When following the documented CoC instructions to enable extensibiility workbench for SBC at the following link, trying to use Firefox 60.x forces the installation of jsLib add-on that is in...
over 4 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Is a defect