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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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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

Allow different sender and receiver email addresses for sending alert mails in standard BPs

Currently in many standard BPs both the sender as well as the receiver of an email is coming from the admin users email address. Unfortunately there are situations where the sender (sending system) is different from the required receiver address(e...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

remove hard coded SMTP information from standard BP

In current business environments most connections to SMTP servers don't use plain SMTP port 25 any more but use secure ports like 465 or 587. With current hard coded value 25 for SMTP port many of the standard BPs can't send emails even if the cor...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

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...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 4 Planned for future release

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.

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

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

Allow individual customization for FTP mailboxes

Requesting control to customize individual mailboxes to flag inbound documents with multiple flags. Examples would be allowing customers to send a document to us via their FTP mailbox and it would flag documents based on customized file name, size...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Allow b2bi trading partners to change file ownership and permissions

Many of our customers have legal and regulatory requirements to set the permissions and ownership of files after they are sent to our MFT. This is currently not supported on Sterling File Gateway. This is causing issues for our customers. The abil...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

POST Call should create user identity key using the same 4 parametres we uses while creating the key from SI UI.

Hi Team, When we create the user identity key from within the SI interface, all we have to do is provide the values for the below-mentioned details and the system already creates the key for us. Key Name Key Type Key Length Comment Enable or Disab...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Needs more information