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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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Enhanced control over the "reviewed" radio button in the B2Bi Sterling Integrator UI

The B2Bi Sterling Integrator UI enables users to view the current status of inbound and outbound file processing to target systems. As part of managing a production live service, we have encountered some issues whereby files have been incorrectly ...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Enhance B2B Mail Client Adapter to support IMAP with OAuth 2.0 to connect gmail for Google workspace account

Google Workspace accounts will no longer support less secure apps, third-party apps or devices that ask you to sign in to your Google Account using only your username and password. to access apps, you must use OAuth2
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Planned for future release

B2BAC purge for custom B2BI processing events written back to B2BAC MEIGUI Events table

IBM's preferred delivery partner delivered a solution to write certain B2Bi processing events back into the MEIGUI database, EVENTS table so that they can be displayed within the UI of B2BAC. Screen shot attached. There are linked back on the B2BA...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Planned for future release

Setup AWSS3 transfer with out any secret and access key

Our Cloud security team isn't recommending any integration to setup AWSS3 transfer with any secret and access key. They are looking for some thing where we could leverage the S3 route with out secret and access key.
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

In Admin Audit Reports only show mailboxes added or removed from routing rules

When running an Admin Audit report, if a mailbox is added or removed from a routing rule, the report will show the entire list of mailboxes within the routing rule and not just the mailbox that was added or removed. Every mailbox is listed with th...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Support Native Authentication to SQL server databases in jdbc pools

Security teams are asking for zero trust setups when connecting systems to each other. Part of that is wanting to use centralized service accounts instead of local access. currently, B2Bi is only supported to make SQL server pools with local authe...
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 5 Not under consideration

EBICS APIs for Server Configurations

APIs for all EBICS server configurations, like partner, user, offer and contract. New EBICS functionalities, like BTF Services and Custom Order Services, are being delivered with their corresponding API's. However, there are no API's yet for exist...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Add AD Authentication option for Database Connections

Add support for AD authentication between SI and its database. This would allow the username/password to be managed outside of the application properties files and more easily align with company policies regarding password complexity and who has a...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Future consideration

More than one MQ pool for Sterling B2Bi adaptors

There is a bug in sterling B2Bi websphere mq pool code that means that if you have: multiple qm's (qm A, B, C) connected to the one sterling instance Then one adaptor cannot access one queue manager (e.g. qm A goes down) the whole MQ pool becomes ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

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 ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 5 Future consideration