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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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Scrubbing Feature

Today I have to use the Command Line Adapter to scrub the file by calling a custom script. It would be nice to have an out of the box scrubbing capability (e.g., replacing ! with | or removing all delimiters from a source file that could impact ED...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 1 Functionality already exists

Support TLS Certificate authentication in SMTP adapter

Migrating to Microsoft Cloud-hosted SMTP Relay using port 25. Applications are required to have company domain issued TLS certificate for communication when sending to users outside the company.
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Future consideration

SFTP change setting authentication order (password, publickey) in the Two-factor authentication

In Sterling B2B Integrator both the SFTP Server and SFTP Client have Two-factor authentication (publickey, password) are configured to have the authentication sequence fixed as password authentication after public key authentication. However, for ...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

For Sterling Integrator container based deployment with ITX integration should have option to pass config-vars.mcv

For Sterling Integrator container based deployment with ITX integration should have option to pass config-vars.mcv
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Under review

Customer is expecting a product feature to collect the must gathers rather running a script to collect

LFG has been using B2Bi product for their key business use-cases. Whenever a product issue / project issue occurs, the support team is asking to collect 4-5 different logs. This is tedious job as they have to run customized script to collect the r...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Report on the Ciphers and MAC algorithms and TLS versions in use for all trading partner connections

In order to be able to remove deprecated ciphers and algorithms, it is handy to know if any existing trading partners are utilising these to (a) determine impact of removal, and (b) identify and provide correspondence to affected partners when we ...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration

OAGIS 10.0 is not available in map editor, only 9.0 is available

Customers with Oracle applications and other XML-based applications are using OAGIS 10.0 versions which are not available in Sterling standard/maps. We tried to load the OAGIS 10.0 schemas into the map editor and map editor crashed due to the size...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 2 Future consideration

Transfers via SFTP to External Mainframe Application (Vendor : DTCC)

IBM Team, We have currently are transfer files to our external vendor DTCC mainframe application via Connect Direct protocol. DTCC has changed the requirement to transfer via SFTP instead of Connect Direct to their mainframe end point. How can the...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

FTP/SFTP File and Folder permissions

File and Folder permissions for FTP and SFTP appear to be at the server-level, forcing NTFS security. This isn't necessarily negative, however if we change these permissions, we risk breaking other processes on the server when we only want to allo...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration

Information systems which implement HTML 5 must adhere to the HTML 5 Security Standard.

Information systems which implement HTML 5 must adhere to the HTML 5 Security Standard. Changes to any other properties for the purpose of preventing cross-site vulnerabilities are not supported. Reference: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/b2b-integrat...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 3 Not under consideration