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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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Introduce SASL Support in B2Bi

Integration use case with ITX and the Kafka adapter. Confulence is pushing SASL Support. SASL provides higher level security options to our customers
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Delivered

Have the User ID in SB2Bi / SFG / MyFG case-insensitive

Currently the User Id information of a SB2Bi / SFG / MyFG User is case-sensitive. This means that when creating the user with myUserId as the UserID, the authentication will only be possible by entering myUserId (and not myuserid or MYUSERID which...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Delivered

SFG Community to be able to refer to Multiple PGP Server profiles for encryption / decryption.

For SFG Community we need to be able to select the PGP Server profile being used as SBI already has provision to create multiple PGP Server profile for different PGP implementation.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Delivered

Support for Linux 5.x kernels

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) >= 1.18.0 provisions the worker nodes with a Ubuntu running 5.x kernels (e.g. 5.4.0-1034-azure) and the deployment of sfg:6.1.0.0 and sfg:6.1.0.1 containers fail because Linux 5.* is not included in *.Linux.VERSIO...

Know Host Key Puller REST API

We're trying to streamline the builds of SFTP profiles in B2B Intergrator using a REST API. I submitted a ticket to research if this capability was available and the tech indicated that there is no API for this. This would help streamline our proc...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Delivered

RHEL8/RH8 Support for Sterling B2B Integrator

End of Support With the "End of Support" notification for SI 5.2.6 recently announced, preparation to upgrade to SI 6.0.0 is essential. SI 6.0.0.1 currently supports RHEL7 (which reaches "End of Support" in Aug 2021. Rather than installi...

PGP Partner Manager and PGP Sponsor Manager APIS

When automating the PGP workflow through PEM, I need to be able to create a PGP Partner. I also need to be able to access the current PGP Partners and Sponsors, as well as check for duplicates.
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Delivered

Password Security Controls

Password security controls for Sterling File Gateway/B2B administrator interfaces using local authentication are not sufficient: Passwords expiration can’t be enforced. Password complexity settings are minimal and don’t comply with our securi...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Delivered

Create RCT API

Would like to be able to create a routing channel template from PEM.
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Delivered

support filesizes greater than 2GB in the http adapters

the http and related adapters are currently limited to 2 GB file sizes. As communication across https becomes more common, especially in the big data arena, the adapters need to support > 2GB. This is a limitation of java 1.7, thus a move to ja...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 2 Delivered