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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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Failed to authenticate with SFTP/FTPs, doesn't display any information of the source

Hi currently, we have a policy to lock an account after 3 failed connections on SFTP or FTPs protocol. In the communication session, it's possible to have the IP source when the authentication is successfull, but when the connection failed, the IP...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 5 Functionality already exists

Threshold configuration for MFRA adapter

Sterling B2B introduced Total Business Process Queue Depth Threshold as part of 5.2.6.1, which helped to minimise overloading of Sterling ( internal queue) and thereby help achieve an overall better performance. Currently application through MFRA ...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Future consideration

Addition of RSASSA-PSS signing algorithm to IBM Sterling Integrator B2B

This singing algorithm was requested by a partner that we trade EDI messages with. They provided us with their new AS2 OCES3 certificate, which used RSASSA-PSS as the signing algorithm. What resulted was that we were able to transmit file but we n...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Future consideration

The idea is to change the password encryption algorithm in the dark data service.

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5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Create an archived/purged report for all BP's purged at a given time

When seeing spikes/drops in DB size it would be helpful to determine what may have caused. DBSTAT does nothing in this regard. It would help if a report could shows all BP's names and number of executions for given point and time.
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Needs more information

Allow individual customization for FTP mailboxes

Requesting control to customize individual mailboxes to flag inbound documents with multiple flags. Examples would be allowing customers to send a document to us via their FTP mailbox and it would flag documents based on customized file name, size...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

POST Call should create user identity key using the same 4 parametres we uses while creating the key from SI UI.

Hi Team, When we create the user identity key from within the SI interface, all we have to do is provide the values for the below-mentioned details and the system already creates the key for us. Key Name Key Type Key Length Comment Enable or Disab...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Needs more information

EDIFACT versions are not available

We are not able to below EDIFACT versions in Sterling Integrator Map editor. We have downloaded standards from 6.1.2.3 but not coming in map editor. Could you please check and advise. ATHSTS:D:10A SSDCLM:D:10A SSDRSP:D:10A Please refer PMR for ref...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 1 Future consideration

Ability to import / update XSLTs from the command line to allow better automated deployments

We have many XSLT sheets in the B2B Integrator, but would like to have the source control of these XSLTs externalised from Sterling B2B Integrator and allow deployment via our automated deployment pipelines. Currently there is no ability to import...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

Need SFG to ignore the case for user name

We want the clients ability to connect to SFG using an userid not worrying about case, I.e., say in SFG the user id is called DTCCTEST we want the user to be able to use any case dtcctest or DTCCTEST or DTCCTest etc and SFG to be able to allow the...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration