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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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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

Local "admin" account logon logs should be captured

Recently, we observed one issue with by default local accounts logon logs in Sterling Integrator application. Logs are getting captured when the authentication log is in debug mode. Logs are not getting captured when authentication log is in non-d...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

Change basic status/return value of Business Process

We have a custom business process defined, where we are retrying the failed step, especially the SFTP connection failures We were able to retry the failed step, but the basic status stay as error, in turn causing the jobs triggered from TWS failed...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Under review

Unable to take backup for property files from custom GUI in Sterling B2B INtegrator - 6.1.2.0

Currently we are running Sterling Integrator version 6.1.2 on OCP. There is no option for us to take the backup of property files from Custom GUI.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

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