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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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UI Updates to show where object is used

There are many objects in the system that have interdependencies. It would be very useful to have the ability to see where an object is in use. Examples: SSH Profile - show SFG partners that reference the profileHost Key - show SSH Profiles that u...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Make the selected font color configurable in the skins.properties_style_ext file for B2Bi properties.

The selected font color now is yellow and can't be changed. If you color code your environments the standard green, yellow and red. The yellow font color is now hard to see your environments. Let us decide what the selected font color should be.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Need MailClientAdapter for Exchange Web Service

Customers who have been using SI B2B Mail Client Adapter to receive mail from Exchange Online using the POP3 protocol will no longer be able to use POP or IMAP due to a change in the company's security policy. (And Microsoft itself) So, as an alte...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 3 Future consideration

MDC (Modification Detection Code) support for native PGP service with in the Sterling Integrator.

Other PGP software's like 'McAFee' supports MDC (Modification Detection Code).
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future consideration

Additional REST services

In our project, we have augmented the Sterling REST services with some other capabilities which we wrote as JAX-RS/Jersey REST services, hosted in a WAR in an HTTP Adapter. It would be good if you would consider in the roadmap providing the functi...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Create monitoring plan for threads, connections and buffers using QW

We have a need to monitor threads, connections and thread pools with the help of Queue watcher. Currently QW provide just the snapshot but there is no reporting from the same. We had multiple times the situation where the application is utilising...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Future consideration

Ability to route files from alternate datacentre in Global Mailbox

We currently receive files internally from multiple sources into Global Mailbox which is load balanced across the two datacentres. We have had situation whereby a file has come into DC1 and we have needed to redeliver the file in DC2 due to issues...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Future consideration

Extend the use of Perimeter Server to Object Store Client Adapter

If Perimeter Server could support connections made from the Object Store Client Adapter it would be simple for customers to enable a connection and centralizing the entire deployment on the same Sterling platform
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Failed Outbound exchanges should be retried

A previous RFE requested a solution to retry outbound AS4 one way push exchange where the failure was caused by a HTTP 30xm 40x or 50x error. This was implemented and is working well. This has saved us considerable time and expense by not requirin...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Planned for future release

Extend the REST API Client Service to allow for Bearer Token as an authorization method

When connecting to the PayPal REST API's for invoicing they require Bearer Token authorization. The token is retrieved from an API that uses Basic authentication.
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Planned for future release