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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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EBICS Server / Client support of xml structures without ds: prefixes

As of now EBICS Server and Client is not able to parse XML structures without ds prefixes in some places, so the parses explicitly needs those. Where as the XML itself is valid against the XSD of the EBICS order types. We need to have the EBICS ...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 1 Planned for future release

Need proper PDF Documentation of version 6.0.0.0

The existing HTML format documentation is not easy to use. The generate PDF link on the version 6.0 documentation will generate probably 100 pdfs. We need proper PDF documents ...may be one install pdf, one planning pdf and one administration pdf....
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Documentation 0 Is a defect

Adapter Containers: Allow container-specific JVM arguments

Right now, if you want to add custom JVM arguments to adapter containers (say for JVM monitoring), this is done via the Performance Tuning wizard. The wizard provides only one field for custom JVM arguments, which are then applied to all adapter c...
about 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

Add AS2 message-id for Correlation search

Currently we can not used the Inbound / Outbound AS2 message ID to search in IBM Sterling Integrator. In any scenario when AS2 partner face issues in connectivity, primary key provided them is AS2 message ID. Please enable search using AS2 Message ID
about 18 hours ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Submitted

Support Ubuntu OS

Would provide additional options for installation using open-source systems for additional flexibility

Enable FTP, SFTP 1.0, and HTTP client adapters to support all asi nodes

Customer is planning to use horizontal pod autoscaling in B2BI/SFG such that if the CPU usage gets too high on ASI node one, it will automatically scale out another. The issues is not all client adapters support running on "all ASI nodes". They re...
8 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Under review

Automated Certificate Lifecycle Management for Sterling B2B Integrator in Alignment with Zero Trust Architecture

Hi, As organizations continue progressing toward Zero Trust Architecture, the importance of secure and streamlined certificate management becomes increasingly critical. We request for enhancement to B2B Certificate management. Current Challenge:To...

Implement Exponential Retry Configuration for SFTP Connections

Concept: Introduce a feature that allows users to define exponential backoff retry policies for SFTP connection attempts. This means that if an initial connection fails, the system will automatically retry the connection after a short delay. If th...
26 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

Enhancement Request: API for Automating FS Virtual Roots Creation for SFTP Server Adapters in IBM Sterling B2B Integrator

Dear IBM Team, I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to request an enhancement for IBM Sterling B2B Integrator. Our team is looking to automate the creation of FS Virtual Roots for use with SFTP server adapters. However, we have been un...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Submitted

Individual Status Messaging: On a batched IB EDI File with Deenveloping

Currently, the de-envelope service processes a single file containing multiple ISA/UNB/UNA interchanges by splitting and translating each interchange individually without any preprocess split. However, status messages configured at the de-envelope...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 Submitted