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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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Global Mailbox should support MQ SSL options during installation

Currently, Global Mailbox only supports installation against MQ servers which use unencrypted communications, and username+password authentication. After installation, the product supports re-configuring using TLS connections and certificate base...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 0 Delivered

B2Bi should support the use of credentials from AWS EC2 instance profiles to enable access to AWS S3 buckets

B2B Integrator 6.0.1 provides an adapter for AWS S3. This adapter requires the use of AWS access keys (awss3.accesskey & awss3.secretkey) for access to S3 buckets. This is not a practical approach for automated batch processes since the AWS ac...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Delivered

Support for Oracle 12c R2

Please add support for Oracle 12c R2 in B2B Integrator.

Support for Oracle 12 and onwards Containerized Databases (CDB) / Pluggable Databases (PDB)

As per today containerized databases or pluggable databasea are not supported when using an Oracle 12.2. database. (see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/does-sterling-b2b-integrator-support-oracle-19c-and-container-cdbpdb-architecture-model). How...

Upgrade Create/Update Community API to Include Setting of PGP Decryption and Signing Keys

When setting up PGP decryption for inbound files, being able to set the PGP Decryption key when creating the community is minimum requirement when automating partner onboarding. The Create/Update Community APIs should be enhanced to include both t...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Delivered

Capability to upload files larger than 100 MB to B2Bi Customization API UI for Docker version of B2Bi

The B2Bi docker version 6.0.2 has a 100 MB limitation on the jar files that can be uploaded to Customization API UI dashboard. The AWS SDK (which is required for S3 client) is 130 MB and cannot be uploaded to the Customization API UI dashboard. th...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Delivered

Sterling support for SQL Server 2017

when will MSFT SQL Server 2017 be supported in Sterling B2B Integrator 6.x
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 1 Delivered

Allow multiple PGP decryption keys per community

We have a security requirement to use expiring PGP keys and change them every few years. Since Sterling only supports a single PGP key per community all of our trading partners have to change their jobs at the same time in order to use our new PGP...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Delivered

S3Client needs to support non-Amazon S3-compatible storage (Dell EMC, etc)

S3 client needs to be able to connect to non-Amazon S3 compatible storage to support systems whose security requirements only allow for private cloud storage.
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 3 Delivered

Support for MS SQL 2017

Support for MS SQL 2017