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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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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.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Planned for future release

Support Multiple CA certificates in HTTP client adapters

We have partners that are starting to deploy systems in multiple geographic zones in an active/active configuration. Each zone is presenting its own SSL certificate. For smooth processing, it would be ideal if a list of certificates could be provi...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Future consideration

Single Sign On with Okta identity provider

currently Single Sign On with Netegrity SiteMinder is only supported. Requesting IBM to include Okta as Single Sign On provider with IBM Sterling B2B Integrator along with documentation.
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

AWSS3ClientForB2Bi Adapter can't work to receive parameters from BPML

When using the AWSS3ClientForB2Bi Adapter and configuring the connection with S3 it works well. When working with BPML and trying to pass the connections to S3 by BPML it doesn't work. The idea is to allow BPML parameters to connect with S3.
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Future consideration

Redirect HTTP to HTTPs in B2B REST API Service/ Enforce HTTPS-only connection

Currently, the B2B REST API is exposed with HTTP and HTTPS but the other connections and configurations from Sterling Integrator are configured with HTTP by default as Sterling Control Center or PEM. Unlike other Sterling B2B Integrator components...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

Virtual root search with MAILBOX

SI admin UI provides search of Virtual root if you know the user id. There are instances where we dont know the user id tied to a virtual root but we know the mailbox path. It would tremendously help if there is a search option with a mailbox path...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Standardize SFTP/FTP Server and client logs for external dashboard consumption like ELK

We are using the SFTP / FTP server and client logs to monitor user activity via Dashboard. We want to provide communication level visibility to our business users from our enterprise application that stores all our B2B data. Its very difficult to ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Add creation or deletion of SSH profiles to the admin audit report

We have scheduled the admin audit report in SI. However it is not logging the creation or deletion of SSH profiles. Recently a SSH profile was deleted from SI and we don't know who did it.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Option to exclude MAILBOX messages from PurgeAll.sh

We run SI as stateless, but use MAILBOX for B2B communication. We clean up SI once every quarter to improve the performance / response time. The clean up process becomes cumbersome because we have to make sure all MAILBOX messages are backed up un...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration