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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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Mail Client adapter to allow Oauth 2.0 with grant_type as Client Credentials

The out of the box B2B mail client adapter allows to make connections to the mail exchange server for OAuth2.0 with grant_type as "Password" only. The grant_type as password is an obsolete and a vulnerable way of getting tokens and should allow gr...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Alert mechanism for when Active BPs reach a certain threshold

Customizable alert mechanism of Active BPs - When Active BPs reach a certain threshold alert email should be sent. If we get this option in IBM B2Bi, it will be of great help as it is a proactive measure for Admins / stakeholders who supports IBM ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Enable FASP support via SSP Perimeter Servers

We recently learnt via a support ticket (as this is currently undocumented at the time of writing) that SSP is unable to route the UDP traffic used by C:D's High-Speed Add-On FASP through SSP Perimeter Servers. This severely limits the scenarios w...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Not under consideration

Allow B2B APIs to create/modify/delete Native PGP Keys

Currently the ability to interact with Native PGP keys via API only appears to be available when SFG is licensed, though the Native PGP functionality is available with the standard B2B Integrator, so we'd like the ability to onboard our users and ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Is a defect

Highlight False Relevancy

First off, I can't find anything that would be close to a Bigfix product in the product drop down. So, please route this and fix the drop down.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Is a defect

APIClient business process can pull and place file on Sterling filegateway mailbox path option too along with file system mailbox path

APIClient business process can pull and place file on Sterling filegateway mailbox path option too along with file system mailbox path
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

OCP cluster/Linux SFG instance : Integrated authentication of MSSQL 2019 database

SFG setup using MSSQL 2019 database, Current our MSSQL supports only integrated authentication, we need to inputs here. 1. Does SFG supports integrated authentication? 2. if yes how to pass the custom parameter in the connection string "integrated...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement to PGP Xprocessor functionality

Currently, The PGP XProcessor requires the following fields as input. The XProcessor Driver will look up the fields using the Profile Name and pass that data to the Utility class. Fields for Both Inbound and OutboundThe following fields are requir...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Support transactional JSON in a similar manner to XML within Document Extract Service/X12 Envelope Service (and EDIFACT likely too)

We are a large user of Sterling B2Bi both BPs and Enveloping and historically we also have been for mapping as well. That said we have a lot of demand with the movement in the development space and even a few external facing areas toward JSON, as ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

if Json Payload shows in the process data on API call that should be very good visible

Json Payload is not showing in the process data on API call in the current Current SB 6.0.2 .Its ended up no visibility on source data when its processing or no visibility if something goes wrong in the soruce data
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 3 Planned for future release