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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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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...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Future consideration

Allow different sender and receiver email addresses for sending alert mails in standard BPs

Currently in many standard BPs both the sender as well as the receiver of an email is coming from the admin users email address. Unfortunately there are situations where the sender (sending system) is different from the required receiver address(e...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

remove hard coded SMTP information from standard BP

In current business environments most connections to SMTP servers don't use plain SMTP port 25 any more but use secure ports like 465 or 587. With current hard coded value 25 for SMTP port many of the standard BPs can't send emails even if the cor...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under 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...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 2 Not under consideration

Ability to route files from alternate datacentre in Global Mailbox

We currently receive files internally from multiple sources into Global Mailbox which is load balanced across the two datacentres. We have had situation whereby a file has come into DC1 and we have needed to redeliver the file in DC2 due to issues...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Future consideration

Multi Factor Authentication for Administrator accounts

Need to be able to require Multi Factor Authentication for administrative accounts in B2BI, SSPCM, SEAS.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Not under 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

Allow deletion of files from global mailboxes in MyFileGateway

When working with global mailboxes and the myfilegateway web interface, customers are unable to delete files. Delete works when connecting using sftp or ftp. Need to be able to delete files in myfilegateway
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1

Remove case sensitivity in trading partner accounts logins

SFG/B2BI requires case sensitivity when our trading partners log into the system (abcd is not equal to ABCD). This is causing issues for our trading partners as we migrate from our legacy MFT that did not have this restriction.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Allow b2bi trading partners to change file ownership and permissions

Many of our customers have legal and regulatory requirements to set the permissions and ownership of files after they are sent to our MFT. This is currently not supported on Sterling File Gateway. This is causing issues for our customers. The abil...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration