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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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IBM Sterling Products - provide Ansible / Chef playbooks for patching and deploying products

Manual installation and patching of IBM Sterling products is very risky, time-consuming, and error-prone, which is not sustainable for long-term support. Our business is seeking automated playbook recipes (e.g., Chef or Ansible) from IBM for produ...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Support for JMS 2.0

Currently, in IBM Sterling B2B Integrator version 6.2.0, the supported JMS version is 1.1, and it's at its End of Life (surpassed by version 2.0). We are restricted by the Compliance and Security Team from using older versions of products or th...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Future consideration

10 years lifespan service

There is a 10 year lifespan for the mailbox messages and it's workflows and data entry related. At the moment the way to clean this messages and all database entrys is creating a BP that deletes the messages and managing the associate bp to doc se...
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Not under consideration

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...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Functionality already exists

Support for AS4 compatible with Peppol Network

Currently, there is no option in IBM B2B Sterling for AS4 to use directly without installing additional software, like IBM Advanced Communications, and in this case looks like the AS4 protocol used it's not by the standards of the Peppol network. ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 4 Future consideration

Ability to invoke a BP in a specific queue other than its default queue

In order to prioritize processing of certain transactions over others in common BP's it would be useful if we were able to specify a specific queue for an Async BP to be invoked in rather than have it invoked in its default queue.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Under review

Enhancement Request: API for Automating FS Virtual Roots Creation for SFTP Server Adapters in IBM Sterling B2B Integrator

Dear IBM Team, I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to request an enhancement for IBM Sterling B2B Integrator. Our team is looking to automate the creation of FS Virtual Roots for use with SFTP server adapters. However, we have been un...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Submitted

Individual Status Messaging: On a batched IB EDI File with Deenveloping

Currently, the de-envelope service processes a single file containing multiple ISA/UNB/UNA interchanges by splitting and translating each interchange individually without any preprocess split. However, status messages configured at the de-envelope...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 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...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Future consideration

Azure Blob Storage Service Principal

Request that IBM update the object store client adapter to support authentication via Microsoft Entra id service principal. Unlike the current configuration option which supports secret key or account key, the enhancement would support configuring...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Planned for future release