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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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Management of OFTP2 Certificates = Time Consuming with SBI

On SBI, OFTP2 management is time consomming.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Future consideration

Enable connection pooling for remote nodes when using CDPLEX

We use the PARSESS ADJACENT.NODE statement to limit parallel sessions from the local node to a remote node based on capacity as agreed with the partner node. When updating our environment to use CDPLEX with multiple server regions, this parameter ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Ability to retrieve original payload from B2B logs

The content downloaded from transaction log is modified. We would like to be able to download the actual data that was received.
10 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 2 Under review

Add AS4 Protocol to Partner Community Manager

With planned addition of AS4 to the core Sterling B2b Integrator, we request that the Partner Community Manager be updated to add AS4 as a protocol in the application/partner configurations. Partner/Application screens should allow for AS4 partner...

Cleanup prior version .jar files

The install/upgrade/patch/hotfix process should cleanup the prior version .jar files. We have been running since 2016 and every .jar file from upgrades are in the <install>/packages folders as well as other folders having years worth of back...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration

Connect to SMB shares from Sterling B2B Integrator hosted on Unix / Linux

For Sterling Integrator hosted on Unix/Linux OS, there is no direct capability to exchange files with Windows Network Shared folders. The recommended solution from IBM for this is to use a samba client on the Unix/Linux machine and mount the windo...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

EPSDK API should allow caller to specify keystore and truststore for SSL/TLS connections

When Control Center is configured for SSL, an application using the EPSDK should be able to specify the keystore and truststore to use for SSL connections. Currently the EPSDK does a few things that don't work well 1. The SDK sets up a Trust Manag...
5 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 0 Under review

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator - Automated way -Existing Customer data - examine ssh pub keys with size

Refer Case details response - Case number# TS010477941
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 3 Needs more information

Latest SAPJCo version required for fast serialization to SAP Adapter configuration for ISOVER

ISOVER (SGCIO) one of the major customer of IBM in B2B, wants to change the connection from C:D to S4 HANA but the ISOVER's SAP admin team feels that when IBM upgrades the SAP adapter with latest SapJCo, the current serialization / connection issu...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Future consideration

Enhance B2B Mail Client Adapter to support IMAP with OAuth 2.0 to connect gmail for Google workspace account

Google Workspace accounts will no longer support less secure apps, third-party apps or devices that ask you to sign in to your Google Account using only your username and password. to access apps, you must use OAuth2
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Planned for future release