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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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Access right control in file gateway

HI IBM , a s we want to separate different level access right in file gateway , we only want to show the routes – activity . But don’t want to show the replay or redeliver function .Also , we want to show grey in participants function. When we do ...

SFG does not accept any host key except RSA and DSS. Also there should be a configuration mechanism for ciphers.

SFG does not support any client Known Host Key except RSA and DSS. Now a days a significant number of clients are using Open SSH which uses ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 as the primary cipher and unfortunately SFG does not support that. We have at least 10 ...
about 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

MQ connection pooling druing put sesions in WS MQ suite adapters in SBI

Prior to 5.2 6..3 (when were in 5.2 1) the MQ put sessions were using connection pool After the upgrade to 5.2.6;3 under the WS MQ suite service adapters - the MQ Put session connection are established & teared down on per message basis This c...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Is a defect

XMLjsonTransformer for conversion xml to json with array

The conversion xmlToJson generate a file with different tag type when the xml have an array with only one element
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 5 Functionality already exists

Address the log4J 1.x vulnerable Liberty WAR files in SB2Bi version 6.1.2

According to the release notes by IBM on the Sterling B2B Integrator version 6.1.2 it states "Apache log4j 1.x is removed and now we are using Apache log4j 2.17.2." However after updating to 6.1.2 The war files listed below still contained log4j 1...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Is a defect

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 ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Future consideration

External Schedulers (TWS/Tidal) trigger business process capability in Sterling B2B Integrator

Sterling B2B integrator is tightly coupled with internal schedulers for triggering business process. This is creating a bottleneck for few business requirements which has dependency on external schedulers like TWS,Tidal.. Need capability in Sterli...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 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...
over 1 year 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.

file is attached
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration