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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...
PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...

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Support for with PostgreSQL

The request is for IBM Sterling B2B integrator and SFG to support PostgreSQL
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 6 Not under consideration

Putaway destination location screen to show location/quantity view

While doing putaway and selecting destination location where item should be put away to, a view showing the current locations where this item is already present in store would be useful on this screen. Along with the location, quantity available a...
9 months ago in Store Engagement / Usability 1 Future consideration

ICC New datetime field - Custom API

The bank is trying to leverage the ICC SLC process to track whether a file has met its SLC.We are having applications (ie. SFG components and other custom applications) raising MQ events with time stamp to start and end SLC of a file.We then wrote...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Reject clearly the SSH key when unencrypted

When checking-in a new SSH user identity key, if the key is not encrypted, then SBI accepts it anyway but the key is unusable (check-out failure). If SBI requires the key to be encrypted then it should mention it clearly and it should not allow th...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 1 Future consideration

It's regarding the Product SPE or Config Center - Outbound Envelope Search with the filter Next Envelope

ConfigCenter Envelope Feature Existing: In Outbound Envelope Search scenario in Config Center, there is no option for searching outbound ST/GS envelope with the GS/ISA envelope as Next Envelope. Problem: We have worked on couple of cases where Cus...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 3 Functionality already exists

SSO SAML assertion and OIDC support and MFA implementation

SAML assertion and OIDC protocols implemented in IBM B2Bi so we can switch from use of LDAP to SSO setup for user authentication. Also we need to implement MFA for user authentication since the application is approved for use with restricted file ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Extension of maximum length for schedule parameters

schedule parameters in B2BI seems to have maximum length of 100 characters. This became evident when a b2b rest api failed to create a schedule parameter for remote pull directory location which was more than 100 characters long. This should be in...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future consideration

In advanced search option In InFlight please add feature for checking the InFlight entries giving the protocol profile ID.

In case if an existing connection to TP or customer is having multiple flows running using the same connections then with this suggested idea one can easily list entire flows in single search option. So this suggested option will be helpful in lis...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Not under consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Allow PGP integration to remote key/secret vault - currently SFG only allows local installation

Currently within our Sterling File Gateway installation we use Symantec PGP Command Line to encrypt/decrypt files between a few of our trading partners. The PGP server installation is running locally on the same application servers which are runni...
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Not under consideration