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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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Remove Appending of ~1 Process for Map name on Outbound Maps

Question Why do map names in Process Data sometimes have '~1' appended? Cause For all outbound map names, the ~1 is appended to the name and stored in the ENVELOPE_PARMS table. The ~1 represents outbound. There is nothing appended to inbound map n...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Support using REST for Web Services in addition to SOAP

REST is the newer and becoming more popular way of doing web services instead of SOAP. Will definitely improve functionality of the product and supporting newer technologies will improve product marketability. I would like to see it work in a sim...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Planned for future release

SI API's should update Admin Audit table just like other SI functions

We have identified a gap in that the API's do not update the admin audit table. The example we found is in the scheduling API. Turning on or off a schedule, in the UI is logged into the table with who did it, when and what. If the API is used, no ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Planned for future release

view inbound acknowledgment for outbound document

In EDI Correlation, view inbound acknowledgment for outbound document. If the partner partially accepts or rejects outbound document, it would be useful to easily view the partner's inbound acknowledgment for the outbound document.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 3 Future consideration

Streamline Global Mailbox Install/Upgrade Process

To upgrade/install Global Mailbox is a large and complex process. My current Global Mailbox production environment encompasses two data centers, each containing the following (4 SFG/GM servers, 6 Cassandra/Zookeeper servers, 2 MQ servers). We are ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 2 Functionality already exists

Support for Azure SQL Server PaaS

Allow Azure SQL server platform as a service as a supported database.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Functionality already exists

SQS Client adapter to be extended for put

Currently the SQS adapter can only read from SQS. It should also be possible to put messages to SQS and to be able to use this service within BP
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Future consideration

Sterling REST API Update without prior get

Hi, We would like to update a specific user groups and accounts without changing the earlier configurations and permissions. In order to do so, we have to first GET the earlier configuration of the interested account, then add the new configurati...
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 4 Planned for future release

EBICS order type - automatically splitting and processing of SEPA containers

We have a requirement to split the SEPA XML containers for customers from Ebics order payload file and process them individually
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Import/Export REST API

Would like to integrate with other change management software to facilitate the export and import of resources between SI instances.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release