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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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Request support for SHA224 hashes to cover entire SHA-2 suite

B2B Advanced Communications currently only supports the following options for digest hash function and signature hash function: MD5 SHA1 SHA256 SHA384 SHA512 The SHA-2 family of hashes specifies support for the following set of hash algorithms: SH...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Planned for future release

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...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

SSH host Key only allowing dsa and rsa

One of our 3rd parties mentioned that they were planning on doing a change to Host Key Algorithms to allow rsa-sha2-512 rsa-sha2-256 As more clients are moving to secure host keys we would prefer to have this option
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

OAuth support for HTTP Server Adapters

Currently HTTP Server Adapters in Sterling B2B Integrator only support basic authentication. It would be good if we can have OAuth authentication natively in B2Bi as OAuth is currently an industry standard for Authentication and Security and most ...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 2 Planned for future release

Rest API integration using OAuth (HTTP Client Adapter and REST API Client Service)

Currently HTTP Client Adapter and REST API Client Service allow for only basic authentication. Most external SaaS clients require OAuth 2.0 since it provides for better security We are unable to fulfill requests partners requiring REST API communi...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 1 Planned for future release

SFTP Client GET Service - input parameter to set a max number of files processed

We are using the operation SFTPClientGet and the parameter RemoteFilePattern to do a multiple get. See the below example. We would like to have an input parameter allowing us to set a maximum number of files processed during one sftp get opera...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 6 Not under consideration

Add Ability to Lockout Accounts, System Wide, When Using SFTP Server Adapter

When an SFTP Lockout Policy is configured, we can specify the number of passwords an account can try before being locked out. This works great with a single SFTP Adapter. However, if multiple adapters are configured with a load balancer in from of...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Under review

Show actual SFTP error in status report

Sterling 6.0 and up, in some cases, has replaced useful, specific SFTP error messages in the status report with vague ones that require diving into logs to troubleshoot. For example, if the host key is wrong when connecting to a partner, this is w...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Is a defect

AWS Adapter Enhancements

Enhancement list for AWS adapter includes the following: 1) perimeter server support 2) begin/end session functionality 3) managing credentials in SFG profile (obscuring creds requires that a script is run on the credentials before entering into S...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 3 Future consideration

SSH key based authentication using LDAP

SSH Key based authentication with LDAP is not supported in B2BI, and also with SEAS integration. Even though SEAS has SSH Key support with LDAP, SEAS integration APIs with B2BI does not have support for sending SSH Key. During a sftp authenticati...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 1 Future consideration