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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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RabbitMQ integration

At this moment there is no way to connect with RabbitMQ topics or queus in a native way using B2Bi. RabbitMQ has AMQP as default protocol so it would be useful to have this possibility. A second option is to use the JMS 1.1 interface since RabbitM...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

Update SI to support the latest version of GnuPG using the provided CLA2CMD Adapter (RTC 584840)

Currently Sterling Integrator supplied GnuPG Adapter supports PGP V2.0. This has been depreciated on 31st December 2017. The newest versions (currently 2.2.16) fail to work (see RTC 584840) with the internally supplied cla2cmd adapter.
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 2 Not under consideration

CreateNewAS2Relationship API - Improve performance of the API to match that of previous versions.

There was a fix (IT40683) implemented in B2Bi v6.0.3.7 that was merged up through v6.1.1.3, then v6.1.2.2 impacting AS2 Relationships API “/CreateNewAS2Relationship”. In patches before the fix, the execution time for the API was ~5 seconds (untune...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

CreateNewAS2Relationship API - Request to disable adding additional user permissions to AS2 child mailboxes

There was a fix (IT40683) implemented in B2Bi v6.0.3.7 that was merged up through v6.1.1.3, then v6.1.2.2 impacting AS2 Relationships API “ /CreateNewAS2Relationship ”. In patches before the fix, the execution time for the API was ~5 seconds (untu...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

Installer fails to create ASISslCert certificate for getCanonicalHostName() method in Java

Installer fails to create ASISslCert certificate for some Windows enviroments.Installer calls getCanonicalHostName() method in Java ,and receive IP address instead of the server hostname for some security or settings.
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration

Option to exclude MAILBOX messages from PurgeAll.sh

We run SI as stateless, but use MAILBOX for B2B communication. We clean up SI once every quarter to improve the performance / response time. The clean up process becomes cumbersome because we have to make sure all MAILBOX messages are backed up un...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Create an archived/purged report for all BP's purged at a given time

When seeing spikes/drops in DB size it would be helpful to determine what may have caused. DBSTAT does nothing in this regard. It would help if a report could shows all BP's names and number of executions for given point and time.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

MS GRAPH API Protocol for B2Bi Mail Client Service Adaptor

We have one integration where we are using B2B Mail Client Adapter to fetch mails and perform operations. Now Exchange servers from where we are downloading mails are moving to Cloud. They want us to use protocol like MS graph API or Exchange Web ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Not under consideration

Configuring Mailbox User Interface through HTTP protocol for Global Mailbox

We recently installed Global Mailbox on existing Sterling Integrator and currently working on migrating partners from traditional SI mailboxes to Global Mailboxes. We use SFTP, NDM (connect direct) and HTTPs protocols for file transmission. For SF...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 2 Not under consideration

Code List Metrics - How often used, and when last used

We currently use multiple code lists in our environment. Over the years, these code lists have grown exponentially. Unfortunately, we have no way of easily knowing how often a row within a code list is used, or when the last time that row was used...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration