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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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Upgrade/Fix Installation should log and recreate the custom Database Indexes dropped during the installation

As per the current design , Fix installation drops all the Custom Indexes created on Database and recreates the Database schema without the custom indexes dropped. Customers will be having lot many custom changes (Custom Indexes) done on Databa...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

Partner Level Authentication

We are starting to see more and more customers want to move to SSH Key only auth, however, we are not set to that today, nor are all of our customers ready/willing to make that switch. Since the authentication requirement is set at a system level,...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration

Sterling Integrator SSP SEAS SSO OKTA connection

Sterling Integrator SSP SEAS SSO OKTA connection
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Future consideration

Capture partner TLS version information during handshake

For all communications protocols (FTPs, SFTP, AS2, ConnectDirect etc), we would like to capture TLS version in logs. In case of upgrades, it helps to work with respective partners to upgrade to supported TLS version.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Functionality already exists

gmsa account

Azure provide GMSA account for their customers . As per IBM (Case TS011227338) IBM is not supporing GMSA account for installation .
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

JMS provider "universal messaging - Software AG" to be included in the list of supported SSL/TLS JMS providers

JMS provider "universal messaging - Software AG" to be included in the list of supported SSL/TLS JMS providers
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

Allow upgrade of SFG Clustered environment using SSL connection to DB2

The Db2 Configuration needs to be modified to allow a non-ssl connection to the DB, this is a security violation in our environment. Then we need to make several modifications to customer_overrides.properties, jdbc.properties.in & Sandbox.cfg ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

Support of IBM WebSphere MQ 9.2

IBM have not claimed support for WebSphere MQ 9.2 support in Sterling B2B Integrator.The enhancement request is for the support of WebSphere MQ 9.2 in Sterling B2B Integrator. The latest version of IBM WebSphere MQ is 9.0.0.4.

log modification at source end

Our splunk monitoring software is having the following issues while trying to review the Sterling Integrator logs: • AggregatorMiningProcessor • LineBreakingProcessor • Event Length>10000 Character
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Future consideration

Allow RESTAPIClient to use the perimeter server for https vs proxy server

Currently the RESTAPIClient requires a proxy server IP/Port for https POST transactions. It would be much more convenient to be able to use the existing Perimeter server instances/ports.
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release