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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 user to override Change History for Code List versions

Currently, the number of codes is saved in "Change History" for each version. However, there are times when several versions are created for testing purposes. Having the ability to put a meaningful description (like we do for maps) would be very u...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

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...

Global Mailbox aged documents or orphan file deletion

On a B2B Integrator software, where HighAvailability is not needed, the payload storage is on shared drive with a simple directory path /opt/b2bsi/documents/2024/01/..... the path has a linear map towards the payload storage. Even if payload gets ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 5 Future consideration

Add a comments field in customization UI

There must be a comments field in customization UI while adding entries to customer_overrides.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Enhancement for S3 Put service in Sterling Integrator tool

we need to invoke the AWS S3 Put BP from a parent BP. The AWS S3 Put BP always asks for a path of the source file and it doesn't take the file from parent BP like other BPs/Services Hence, we need an enhancement to achieve this without giving a...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Future consideration

RabbitMQ integration

At this moment there is no way to connect with RabbitMQ topics or queus in a native way using B2Bi. RabbitMQ has AMQP as default protocol so it would be useful to have this possibility. A second option is to use the JMS 1.1 interface since RabbitM...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

importMAPs.sh not loading the UserName & Change History Description

While deploying the Map sources using importMAPs.sh script, its loading without having UserName and Change History. The script have the abilities to take invokearguments but not sure how we can pass that option. importBPs.sh script have the option...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Under review

Traffic Throttle Mechanism per User/Customer in SFG

There was an instance when a customer uploaded huge number of files every second due to an issue on the customer side which broke the system on our side. We have a traffic throttle mechanism requirement where we can throttle the traffic in SFG pe...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

Allow email address to use as user ID

We have requirement to use email address as the user ID in sterling integrator.
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Planned for future release

Validate content of file uploads on dashboard

Sterling Integrator was flagged on recent PenTest due to the fact that it allows any type of file to be uploaded on dashboard, ie as bp primary document, maps, xslts, etc. Case TS016869403 confirmed that currently only mailboxes can restrict file ...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration