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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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Support for Azure SQL Server PaaS

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

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 ...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Planned for future release

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 configuratio...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 4 Planned for future release

Microsoft Deprecating IMAP and Basic Auth - Oct/2022

Microsoft is deprecating the IMAP and Basic Auth authentication for mailboxes from Oct/2022 - please see the link below. As of now the only options to connect to Office 365 mailboxes is using IMAP and Basic Auth - but that will not be available es...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Removing specific Operator functions within Sterling Integrator

This proposed functionality is useful because it provides security from a SOX perspective for those that are and aren't members of your company and/or organization, who will benefit from this change.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Fix some bin scripts bang line

When automating bin/runAll.sh script, it failed to find bang line on first line of script. This is on a new install of b2bi 6.1.0.2 Running cmd below on b2bi bin dir: head -n1 *.sh > /tmp/bin_head1_list.txt Shows that these 6 scripts have somet...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Need mTLS connectivity

This is a request for enhancement. Could you add mTLS to this product. Currently we have one partner that is requesting this capability in order to do business with them. mTLS is a type of mutual authentication in which the two parties in a connec...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Needs more information

Provide Option to export in Jar file while using export Command Line Utility

In Sterling Integrator, export command line utility, export.sh, is available under <INSTALL_DIR>/tp_import directory. It is currently having export options as XML (Default), WAR file. There are no options to do export in JAR file format.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Certify all components of Sterling suite to be use in virtual machines of clouds platforms like Azure, AWS, bluemix, etc.

Many customers are moving there infrastructure to the cloud, as a company that use computing services of IBM, the needs of our customers are essentials, so we need that the sterling suite must be compatible like on premise, with the O.S most use l...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Planned for future release

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...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration