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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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Node out of cluster - Process files gracefully automatically

Business will get benefitted and avoid impacting bank's reputation.
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Needs more information

Enable Online Customer Protocol Creations

In order to maintain flexibility of the platform, while reducing the impact of change live Business Processes called by existing protocols, Sterling should allow the creation of new custom protocols online, and not need a full shutdown to take eff...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

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

In Admin Audit Reports only show mailboxes added or removed from routing rules

When running an Admin Audit report, if a mailbox is added or removed from a routing rule, the report will show the entire list of mailboxes within the routing rule and not just the mailbox that was added or removed. Every mailbox is listed with th...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Support Native Authentication to SQL server databases in jdbc pools

Security teams are asking for zero trust setups when connecting systems to each other. Part of that is wanting to use centralized service accounts instead of local access. currently, B2Bi is only supported to make SQL server pools with local authe...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 4 Needs more information

Hide UniqueID Token in GET parameter for MyFilegateway

Situation: Using MyFilegateaway the uniqueId token is passed as parameters in the URL in GET/POST Request Methods Example: https://mft-nala-val.roche.com/myfilegateway/MyFGUpload.do?uniqueId=-1ccob8032vnyn This value could be used accessing to Bro...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Needs more information

File System Adapter (FSA) Timeout

Customer has BPs that writes and/or reads files to/from a NFS server. Once there was a problem of slowness in their NFS server where the NFS response was very slow. There are thousand of workflows running at that time SFG collapsed after a certain...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Future consideration

Log Standards

Some customers has the need to read the logs using some realtime observability tools, such as Prometheus, Splunk. There is some difficulties on integrating those actual logs of Sterling B2B Integrator with the new standards. This request has the g...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Future consideration

API to get queueWatch informations

The queueWatch monitors several components of IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and manage definitions and configurations of the queues. This tool is recommended to cases where the customer has the need on watching queues on realtime and their informati...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Future consideration

Can you please have the sterling b2b map editor tested and certified for win11 pro.

win11 is here. this has to happen and i am hoping it will be sooner rather than later.
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 2 Planned for future release