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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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Need MailClientAdapter for Exchange Web Service

Customers who have been using SI B2B Mail Client Adapter to receive mail from Exchange Online using the POP3 protocol will no longer be able to use POP or IMAP due to a change in the company's security policy. (And Microsoft itself) So, as an alte...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 3 Future consideration

support of Oauth2 & OIDC in Sterling integrator

With more and more "business" moving to the cloud, it will be essential
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Supporting AUTH TLS for FTPS Port 21

Enable AUTH TLS on FTPS Transfer. Current version of SI 6.1.2 doesn't support AUTH TLS. This was a request from an external vendor to enable AUTH TLS for secured transfer.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration

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

Need SFG to ignore the case for user name

We want the clients ability to connect to SFG using an userid not worrying about case, I.e., say in SFG the user id is called DTCCTEST we want the user to be able to use any case dtcctest or DTCCTEST or DTCCTest etc and SFG to be able to allow the...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Enhance handling of OutOfMemory exceptions for custom designed BPs

Hi, We faced outofmemory exception & UI unresponsiveness due to large resultset returned from database. We would appreciate if SI/SFG could have controls inside it to handle such errors.
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 3 Needs more information

Regarding user account creation alert in SI/SFG

Hi Team, We do not have any option to get an alert or notification whenever we create a new user in Sterling Dashboard or File-Gateway, It will be good if we can have an alert in security point of you, Please let me know if you need any other info...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Needs more information

Create a separate jdbc pool for opscmd

Issue: Customer noticed that SBI's opscmd.sh script duplicates the creation of every connection pools from SBI to the Database. Root Cause Analysis: When queueDepth command (using opscmd script) is invoked, it creates another copy of connection po...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Future consideration

Have the ability to export an entire secret PGP keypair within B2Bi

As discussed with support in TS011052588 - it is not possible to export a secret keypair that has been imported/generated with Native PGP, into a format that can then be imported to use with other PGP software. When you export a secret key via the...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

New report that lists the XML source code of the BPs.

New report that allows the client to know the xml content of one, several or all active BPs in the system at any time. This would allow reviewing the processes, looking for adapters and others, that the client may need to know when migrating from ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Not under consideration