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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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Sterling map editor - Search and replace option in Extended rule tab

Sterling map editor does not have the option to find or replace any codes in extended rule tab . Presently we using notepad by copying the code manually from map editor and finding or replacing the logic's, which is taking more time and some times...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Allow different sender and receiver email addresses for sending alert mails in standard BPs

Currently in many standard BPs both the sender as well as the receiver of an email is coming from the admin users email address. Unfortunately there are situations where the sender (sending system) is different from the required receiver address(e...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

remove hard coded SMTP information from standard BP

In current business environments most connections to SMTP servers don't use plain SMTP port 25 any more but use secure ports like 465 or 587. With current hard coded value 25 for SMTP port many of the standard BPs can't send emails even if the cor...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Need SFG to ignore the case for user name

We want the clients ability to connect to SFG using an userid not worrying about case, I.e., say in SFG the user id is called DTCCTEST we want the user to be able to use any case dtcctest or DTCCTEST or DTCCTest etc and SFG to be able to allow the...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Allow b2bi trading partners to change file ownership and permissions

Many of our customers have legal and regulatory requirements to set the permissions and ownership of files after they are sent to our MFT. This is currently not supported on Sterling File Gateway. This is causing issues for our customers. The abil...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Provide Option to export in Jar file while using export Command Line Utility

In Sterling Integrator, export command line utility, export.sh, is available under <INSTALL_DIR>/tp_import directory. It is currently having export options as XML (Default), WAR file. There are no options to do export in JAR file format.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Remove the validation of the X520SerialNumber in the PKI-J toolkit

An error occurred when updating a certificate for a client with a Serial number too long issue. Certicom found that certificate is not valid and cannot be used since the X520SerialNumber contains more than 64 characters which violates the RFC.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 0 Not under consideration

Limit the version number for resources

There should be a way/property to limit the number of versions for B2B Integrator artifacts like Business Process, XSLT, Maps, Code Lists. Currently we can have as many versions as created for each of these artifacts and need to manually clean up ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

For AS2 Configuration allow using file names when using mailboxes, the same way you can use file names when using file system directories.

Document ID is sending as file name with .txt extension via AS2 Connection. Partner need *.edi file like we have in Message Name. Message Name is *.edi but client is getting file with Document ID++*.txt.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Overdue 997 event notification

I would like SI to trigger an email notification when a document reaches an Overdue acknowledment state.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration