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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 B2B Integrator

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Integration with Azure Entra ID for user authentication

User authentication support with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and SAML 2.0 in the Sterling B2B Integrator product, for integration with Azure Entra ID.Not just LDAP support.
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Submitted

Support for AS4 compatible with Peppol Network

Currently, there is no option in IBM B2B Sterling for AS4 to use directly without installing additional software, like IBM Advanced Communications, and in this case looks like the AS4 protocol used it's not by the standards of the Peppol network. ...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 4 Future consideration

Transfers via SFTP to External Mainframe Application (Vendor : DTCC)

IBM Team, We have currently are transfer files to our external vendor DTCC mainframe application via Connect Direct protocol. DTCC has changed the requirement to transfer via SFTP instead of Connect Direct to their mainframe end point. How can the...
22 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Enhance SSH Remote Profile to support both Key AND Password Authentication

Currently, SSH remote profile, admins can configure either key or password authentication. Requesting to support Key AND Password Authentication.
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Enable SNI support for SSL Cert Grabber

Currently if you use the SSL Cert Grabber to pull back a certificate from an endpoint that is using SNI to determine which TLS certificate to return, you will not get the correct TLS cert, but the TLS cert for the base domain. This can make it dif...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Submitted

FTP/SFTP File and Folder permissions

File and Folder permissions for FTP and SFTP appear to be at the server-level, forcing NTFS security. This isn't necessarily negative, however if we change these permissions, we risk breaking other processes on the server when we only want to allo...
24 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

The email ID is with a limit of 30 characters, that needs to be modified to allow more than 30 characters

The IBM Sterling deployment using SAML has a limitation at present, where it does not allow users with more than 30 characters in the email ID to login. Whenever the partner users email id or username greater than 30 characters system doesn't allo...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Support current SFTP/SSH host key and public key algorithms.

Sterling currently only supports ssh-rsa algorithm for host and public key. this is limiting sftp transfers with our new SFTP partners. New SFTP servers like Azure SFTP doesnt support ssh-rsa for host key algorithm. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

Ability to invoke a BP in a specific queue other than its default queue

In order to prioritize processing of certain transactions over others in common BP's it would be useful if we were able to specify a specific queue for an Async BP to be invoked in rather than have it invoked in its default queue.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Under review

BP Exit Service

Add a "BP Exit Service", to cleanly terminate the current BP. Essentially the same as the "BP Exception Service" but without triggering an error.
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

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