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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 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

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 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...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

support of Oauth2 & OIDC in Sterling integrator

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

It is not possible to find unused envelope or map name in the database

It is not possible to find unused envelope or map names in the database.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

The source map name and compiled map name should be same as that of name of Map detail, only then the map deployment should be allowed

The source map name and compiled map name should be same as that of name of Map detail, only then the map deployment should be allowed.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 0 Not under 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...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

On the Code (List) Info form, put Text1 thru Text9 on their own lines and make the data fields much wider

Please put Text1 thru Text9 on their own lines and make the data entry field as wide, or wider, than the size of the Description data entry field.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

CLA2Server publicCertAlias

Now publicCertAlias value of the Command line adapter2 server (CLA2Server) only support the leaf certificate instead of root/intermediate certificate for client authentication with CLA2Client. So it means that all CLA2Client adapter must be use th...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 3 Future consideration

json sterling mapper

Not able to do EDI into JSON or JSON to JSON for any new tech modernization
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration