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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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HTTP access log with URL, status code, IP's, user agent string, etc.

Security frequently audits to review the HTTP access logs for web server of Sterling Application (external facing apps). Security expect the HTTP access log to reflect the URL, status code, IP's, user agent string, etc. Can you suggest where to tr...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

MS GRAPH API Protocol for B2Bi Mail Client Service Adaptor

We have one integration where we are using B2B Mail Client Adapter to fetch mails and perform operations. Now Exchange servers from where we are downloading mails are moving to Cloud. They want us to use protocol like MS graph API or Exchange Web ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Not under consideration

Allow Connect Direct processes "Waiting on I/O" to stop consuming a Thread (similar to how SFTP operates)

In order to expand usage of Connect Direct inside B2Bi, Connect Direct processes need to behave similar to other protocols. Connect Direct consumes an entire Thread (queue watcher) the entire time a Connect Direct transfer is occurring. With other...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Future consideration

Configuring Mailbox User Interface through HTTP protocol for Global Mailbox

We recently installed Global Mailbox on existing Sterling Integrator and currently working on migrating partners from traditional SI mailboxes to Global Mailboxes. We use SFTP, NDM (connect direct) and HTTPs protocols for file transmission. For SF...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 2 Not under consideration

Update SI to support the latest version of GnuPG using the provided CLA2CMD Adapter (RTC 584840)

Currently Sterling Integrator supplied GnuPG Adapter supports PGP V2.0. This has been depreciated on 31st December 2017. The newest versions (currently 2.2.16) fail to work (see RTC 584840) with the internally supplied cla2cmd adapter.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 2 Not under consideration

Allow email address to use as user ID

We have requirement to use email address as the user ID in sterling integrator.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Planned for future release

Allow configuration of SMTP alert parameters for Event Framework

Currently alert emails sent via Event Framework are send with fixed SMTP port 25. Since more and more companies have special requirements for SMTP mail traffic it would be great if the SMTP parameters like port, authentication etc. could be config...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Extend the use of Perimeter Server to Object Store Client Adapter

If Perimeter Server could support connections made from the Object Store Client Adapter it would be simple for customers to enable a connection and centralizing the entire deployment on the same Sterling platform
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Audit record/log for the SQL statement executed via db_exec.sh and db_execFile.sh scripts

Hi Team, Currently in Sterling B2B Integrator there is no audit records/logs for the SQL statements executed via scripts db_exec.sh and db_execFile.sh. We have verified the logs and ADMIN_AUDIT table and could not find any audit trial for the SQL ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

Allow segregation of administrators to discrete lists of trading partners

Our organization has multiple business units. We need the ability to assign administrators so that they can make changes to only those accounts assigned to their business unit. Example - Trading partners A, B, and C are assigned to business unit A...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Not under consideration