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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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We need an ability to create user name upto 60characters and email address upto 68 characters in B2Bi

We have a requirement to onboardi-ng partners with the user name upto 60 chars and email address up to 68 chars, and currently we noticed b2bi only allows 36chars in the user name field and 64chars in the email address field, and so can you provid...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Need Corresponding Release of Vulnerabilities Fixed by Recently Released Patches/Fix Packs

There needs to be planned release(s) of known security vulnerabilities that are addressed in recent patches, i.e. 6.1.2.4 through regular channels (subscribed notifications). That seems to be how they've been released for IBM Sterling products in ...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Add Solace to the list of supported vendors for JMS 1.1

Right now Solace is not listed under the supported vendors and configurations for JMS 1.1: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/b2b-integrator/6.2.0?topic=adapters-supported-vendors-configurations-jms-11

Add Interchange Syntax Extension (ISX) from 2017 version 007040 forward to Sterling Envelope options

Walmart planned to do our first 008010 Purchase order will full UTF-8 encoding and defined release character support. We have an ITX map to support it but the Sterling Enveloping options are missing any 'include ISX' options. Why is this needed? W...
29 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 0 Submitted

Export Wizard Command Line should have resource tag option

The export/import wizard command line does not have all the options as the GUI. The command line is used if there is a need to export large amount of objects. Doing large volume export in the GUI can lead to timeouts. In general, the command line ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Specify our desired default settings for Preferred Cipher and Preferred MAC Algorithm

When creating a new SSH Remote Profile, the Preferred Cipher and Preferred MAC fields are defaulting to values that are deprecated (blowfish-cbc and hmac-sha1). I was told that those deprecated settings are hardcoded in the B2Bi application. We wi...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Provide QueueWatch Audit data

As part of our effort to more thoroughly track usage in SBI, we need to be able to audit QueueWatch usage. In IBM case TS013772150, we were informed that this functionality does not exist.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Future consideration

Enhance SSH Remote Profile to support both Key AND Password Authentication

Currently, SSH remote profile, admins can configure either key or password authentication. Requesting to support Key AND Password Authentication.
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Table admin_audit should log all SSH profile changes

Today, SI admin_audit table does not log any SSH profile changes. Requesting to including logging for SSH profile updates, deletions, and creates for auditing purposes.
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Use Rest APIs as bulk file transfer mechanism. APIs to be shared with partners so they can push bulk files directly to B2B mailbox

Partners to push bulk files/messages directly to the mailbox Will be use like B2B Liberty API’s whereby partners will have to authenticate and then they should be able to do a basic upload “POST” to upload a file with a single http request. The AP...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted