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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...
PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...

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Automatic recovery for critical failures such as database failures

We have an SFG/B2B environment installed on Linux/AIX machines and in tests simulating the loss of the database we noticed that after the database becomes operational, SFG/B2B does not recover, making it necessary to perform a STOP/START of the pr...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Submitted

Support NetApp StorageGRID S3 Implementation

Many IBM customers have NetApp storage as part of their infrastructure. NetApp's StorageGRID offering (https://www.netapp.com/data-storage/storagegrid/) provides native support for S3 APIs. Adding support for this implementation of those APIs will...

Logging user activity - to track user's activity while they navigate on dashboard

As a part of business requirement, we need to log activities related to all users in Sterling Integrator. If a user who is not allowed to view a specific BP data, that should be logged, which can be useful for auditing purpose.
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

Only specific user should have access to specific BP Primary document and Instance Data

We have a business scenario, where for security reasons we want only allowed user(s) to have access to a specific BP flow execution. All users / superusers , who are not allowed to view this data, should not be able to view the Primary Document / ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

Standardized Usable Data Export and Re-import Feature for Tenant Decommissioning, M&A, and Data Migration Scenarios

This feature aims to provide a standardized process for exporting tenant data in usable, structured formats (e.g., CSV, JSON, database dump), which can also be re-imported into existing tenants if needed. The current approach often results in unus...
16 days ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

Prepare to support EBICS v4.0

EBICS is a banking standard used by banks and corporations in Europe for payments, cash and treasury management etc. The EBICS organisation is looking to build on the harmonisation introduced in EBICS v3, introduced in 2018, focusing on: EBICS V 4...
about 1 month ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Submitted

Enable SEAS to directly consume SAML/OIDC passed roles.

Enhancement request for the SEAS (STERLING External Authentication Server) service. Request SEAS have the ability to consume roles or entitlements through federation service, all roles are passed through the federated service from a role that is s...
3 months ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 0 Submitted

Enable Search and Replace functionality through Codelist

Currently B2Bi SAAS have options to Search and Replace characters through map and BPNST rules. However, the customer is looking for easier solution, where instead of the customer would like to add the HEXCODE of the Problematic characters into the...
20 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Submitted

"Read-only" option in the actions menu of Active Transfer for user groups

It would be interesting for our business model to have a "read-only" option in the actions menu of Active Transfer for user groups. This way, they can see what is in the menu but cannot make any changes. There are "read-only" options in various pa...
3 months ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

active Transfer logs had an option to record the actions performed

It would be interesting if the Active Transfer logs had an option to record the actions performed on files and folders in the Web Client, such as copying, pasting, deleting, cloning, or moving to another location. This would allow us to have a rec...
3 months ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted