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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...

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Sterling map editor - Search and replace option in Extended rule tab

Sterling map editor does not have the option to find or replace any codes in extended rule tab . Presently we using notepad by copying the code manually from map editor and finding or replacing the logic's, which is taking more time and some times...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement Support Case for App Gateway

Enhancement Support Case for App Gateway As we have been using App gateway along with Load balancer , below are the two cases where we have had to fix issues with Microsoft and Internal Pepsi app gateway team to resolve logout issues TS009590679 T...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Future consideration

Enhance REST API Client service to allow connection via DMZ / Perimeter server

Currently REST API Client service can establish connection to REST API endpoint via local perimeter or proxy only. This presents an issue while connecting to external partners. Request is to enhance REST API Client service to allow configuration f...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 3 Functionality already exists

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...
almost 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...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Support for Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) for deployment on AWS

Customers are asking if B2BI/SFG can be deployed on Amazon Linux 2 on AWS.
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Future 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...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Under review

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...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Verify ControllerWorkflow is functioning properly in 6.0.2.1 with regard to force terminate

ControllerWorkflow.sh doesn't seem to be force terminating a BP when it is in a halting or active state when the BP shows it is in wait queue.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 2 Is a defect

Add support for the "OPTS UTF8 ON" FTP Client command/parameter.

Beginning with Windows Server 2016, the Microsoft FTP Client includes the "OPTS UTF8 ON" command. The Sterling B2B Integrator FTP Server does not support this command, and returns a 501 error message. This "OPTS UTF8 ON" command is included in RFC...
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Future consideration