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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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Need SFG to ignore the case for user name

We want the clients ability to connect to SFG using an userid not worrying about case, I.e., say in SFG the user id is called DTCCTEST we want the user to be able to use any case dtcctest or DTCCTEST or DTCCTest etc and SFG to be able to allow the...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Enhance handling of OutOfMemory exceptions for custom designed BPs

Hi, We faced outofmemory exception & UI unresponsiveness due to large resultset returned from database. We would appreciate if SI/SFG could have controls inside it to handle such errors.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 3 Needs more information

Regarding user account creation alert in SI/SFG

Hi Team, We do not have any option to get an alert or notification whenever we create a new user in Sterling Dashboard or File-Gateway, It will be good if we can have an alert in security point of you, Please let me know if you need any other info...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Needs more information

Need mTLS connectivity

This is a request for enhancement. Could you add mTLS to this product. Currently we have one partner that is requesting this capability in order to do business with them. mTLS is a type of mutual authentication in which the two parties in a connec...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Needs more information

"Request for Enhancement" : ability to do explicit SSL ("SSL is optional") be added to the SMTP Send Adapter

We are trying to use the SMTP Send adapter( for Sterling B2B Integrator 6.x version) to connect Office 365 server using port 587, and realized that Sterling could not able make a connection, as SMTP Send adapter supports only two options " SSL can...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

Need to know length of salt for passwords and preferably configure it

As customers tighten their security policies, some are developing or already have requirements that the length of salt applied to a password must be a minimum number of characters. There is no current way to determine this or change it within B2B ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

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

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

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