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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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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 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

"Request for Enhancement" : ability to do explicit SSL ("SSL is optional") be added to the SMTP Send Adapter

We are trying to use the SMTP Send adapter( for Sterling B2B Integrator 6.x version) to connect Office 365 server using port 587, and realized that Sterling could not able make a connection, as SMTP Send adapter supports only two options " SSL can...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

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
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Future consideration

Need to know length of salt for passwords and preferably configure it

As customers tighten their security policies, some are developing or already have requirements that the length of salt applied to a password must be a minimum number of characters. There is no current way to determine this or change it within B2B ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

trade up process is too complex and cumbersome

seller contacts project office to explore usage or tries to use parts in SQO routing them to project office via checkfile configuration 2. Project office distributes trade-up spreadsheet seeking input on existing entitlement, S&S LPP, and inte...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 0 Needs more information

Support for Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) for deployment on AWS

Customers are asking if B2BI/SFG can be deployed on Amazon Linux 2 on AWS.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Future consideration

importMAPs.sh not loading the UserName & Change History Description

While deploying the Map sources using importMAPs.sh script, its loading without having UserName and Change History. The script have the abilities to take invokearguments but not sure how we can pass that option. importBPs.sh script have the option...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Under review

Redeliver undelivered messages that are NOT covered by the Retry Policy mechanism

Experience operating a B2B Advanced Communications/ IBM MQ / Sterling Business Integrator ebms AS4 gateway has shown that there are many ways in which outbound messages can fail. Relatively few of these are covered by the Retry policy mechanism bu...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 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
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Remove the validation of the X520SerialNumber in the PKI-J toolkit

An error occurred when updating a certificate for a client with a Serial number too long issue. Certicom found that certificate is not valid and cannot be used since the X520SerialNumber contains more than 64 characters which violates the RFC.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 0 Not under consideration