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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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B2Bi application should automatically sync with the system time during DST change, without application re-start

Currently, we are re-cycling the B2B SI application in-order to sync the application time with system time during Daylight Savings (DST). Customer is not happy to bounce the application for time change during DST, re-cyling the application is impa...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Is a defect

REST API Server Adapter

Allow Trading Partners to exchange file using REST APIs. If we can have REST adapter similar to SFTP adapter, Partners can use REST APIs to post/get/list etc files to their mailbox. Current REST APIs in B2Bi for administration, management and onbo...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 5 Future consideration

Add native AS4 support to B2BI

We are a global manufacturer who has EDI trading partners in many countries. In Europe, AS4 is rapidly become a requirement. We would appreciate having our existing B2BI Solution (IBM Sterling B2BI) continue to be our one stop shop for all trading...
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Functionality already exists

Need for a B2B Integrator MONITORING  REST API

Need for a B2B Integrator REST API to return the following counts: *Number of Active, Halted, Waiting, Interrupted BPs. * Database usage KPIs : used space and free space. * Queue Depth. * Heap usage
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Support for Azure SQL Server PaaS

Allow Azure SQL server platform as a service as a supported database.
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Functionality already exists

Easiest way to scan all BPs in B2Bi

Need ability for users to search inside the BPs for a keyword or search string. In B2Bi Dashboard has ability to search for code in XML/BPML directly from dashboard. Example I have defined one custom service in the business process and I want to k...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 4 Functionality already exists

Sterling REST API Update without prior get

Hi, We would like to update a specific user groups and accounts without changing the earlier configurations and permissions. In order to do so, we have to first GET the earlier configuration of the interested account, then add the new configuratio...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 4 Planned for future release

Adapter Containers: Allow container-specific JVM arguments

Right now, if you want to add custom JVM arguments to adapter containers (say for JVM monitoring), this is done via the Performance Tuning wizard. The wizard provides only one field for custom JVM arguments, which are then applied to all adapter c...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

customer overrides properties for liberty profile server.xml

We would like to have customer overrides setting to be used in the server.xml of the liberty profile instance managing the B2Bi API's.
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

Support for Oracle Exadata Database Machine with DB clusters using Oracle Virtual Machine (OVM) with IBM Sterling B2B Integrator (SBI)

We use IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Version, 5.2.6.2. Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.1.0.1.0 on Oracle Exadata is in play. Our DBAs intend migrate our SBI DB from Exadata to Exadata Database Machine with DB clusters using Oracle ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Functionality already exists