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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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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

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

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

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

Limit the version number for resources

There should be a way/property to limit the number of versions for B2B Integrator artifacts like Business Process, XSLT, Maps, Code Lists. Currently we can have as many versions as created for each of these artifacts and need to manually clean up ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Support for MQ version 9.2, currently supports upto v9.1.0.7

Our Implementation uses Global Mailbox and the current version of B2Bi (6.1.0.3, 6.1.1) supports maximum MQ version 9.1.0.7. Our Security and MQ team have identified a security vulnerability with version 9.1.x.x which is remediated with version 9....
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Is a defect

Support/document health endpoints in REST services

It would be useful to have actuator-like health endpoints in the product's REST and REST Authentication WAR services so that a gateway or load-balancer can gracefully work with the services. If these exist, just documenting them would be great.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Future consideration

Add support for the "OPTS UTF8 ON" FTP Client command/parameter.

Beginning with Windows Server 2016, the Microsoft FTP Client includes the "OPTS UTF8 ON" command. The Sterling B2B Integrator FTP Server does not support this command, and returns a 501 error message. This "OPTS UTF8 ON" command is included in RFC...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Future consideration