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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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Request support for SHA224 hashes to cover entire SHA-2 suite

B2B Advanced Communications currently only supports the following options for digest hash function and signature hash function: MD5 SHA1 SHA256 SHA384 SHA512 The SHA-2 family of hashes specifies support for the following set of hash algorithms: SH...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Planned for future release

Implicit SSL is making a comeback with some sites due to its immediate application of SSL

Implicit SSL is generally not considered a best practice when setting up FTPS. The preferred alternative is Explicit SSL, which is the current standard for FTPS connections for B2B Integrator. However, some of our customers experience intense busi...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

For AS2 Configuration allow using file names when using mailboxes, the same way you can use file names when using file system directories.

Document ID is sending as file name with .txt extension via AS2 Connection. Partner need *.edi file like we have in Message Name. Message Name is *.edi but client is getting file with Document ID++*.txt.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Overdue 997 event notification

I would like SI to trigger an email notification when a document reaches an Overdue acknowledment state.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Allow the FTP Server adapter to ignore or terminate connections from load balancer health checks

The FTP Server Adapter seems to accept connections from the load balancer health checking, and creates entries into the ACT_SESSION table for them. It seems an unnecessary task to perform and causes additional database activity. The Connect Direct...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Change security logs format

The security logs can be changed to display more information in a single line. It will help security teams to identify who creates/deletes users or groups.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration

Adding a disclaimer before access dashboard and mailbox interface

When a user insert his credential in login page to access Sterling Integrator dashboard or Mailbox Interface page, should read a customizable message about the confidentiality obligations accessing the System, before to be redirected to IBM Sterli...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Enable specifying account permissions on download orders for each user

There is no option for us to add accounts for a B2C file which we can do at the moment in Axway. For our current set up we give permissions to users by account numbers so they can only retrieve statements containing that account
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

CyberArk AIM Integration/Connector

As part of security's best practices, it is mandatory that all applications have a connector with CyberArk to retrieve passwords from functional users, so it isn't allowed to storage static passwords in the local servers/Properties files from appl...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 5 Not under consideration

PRINCIPAL column in ACT_SESSION table is too short

Error in logs indicating data truncation on PRINCIPAL column in ACT_SESSION table. ERROR 000000000000 GLOBAL_SCOPE DmiVisEventWarehouseQueue.Worker.executeStatementsAsExecutor had a SQL exception from pstmnt: PreparedStatementHelper: SQL: UPDATE A...