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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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Need the ability to disable the Shut Down the System link within Troubleshooter

Currently the Troubleshooter page has a variety of highly valuable Operations tools, but often there is a need to disable specific functions within the Troubleshooter, not the least of which is the Shut Down the System (softstop) option. Operation...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Missing 'SH#' Bill of Lading in Document View Report

Dear IBM team. Currently, we're able to extract a report from the IBM Document Tracking. However, for our EDI 862 and Deljit Transactions, we are missing the BOL number (which is the SH# referred to in the file name column). This number, is not in...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Submitted

Rest API integration using OAuth (HTTP Client Adapter and REST API Client Service)

Currently HTTP Client Adapter and REST API Client Service allow for only basic authentication. Most external SaaS clients require OAuth 2.0 since it provides for better security We are unable to fulfill requests partners requiring REST API communi...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 1 Planned for future release

Increase VALUE column length from 100 characters to 255 in ACT_NON_XFER table.

The reports regarding table ACT_NON_XFER in the Sterling Integrator Database, show incomplete information. The VALUE column is capped at 100 characters, resulting in incomplete visualization of values such as mailboxes. We are suggesting to change...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Support current SFTP/SSH host key and public key algorithms.

Sterling currently only supports ssh-rsa algorithm for host and public key. this is limiting sftp transfers with our new SFTP partners. New SFTP servers like Azure SFTP doesnt support ssh-rsa for host key algorithm. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

SFTP Client GET Service - input parameter to set a max number of files processed

We are using the operation SFTPClientGet and the parameter RemoteFilePattern to do a multiple get. See the below example. We would like to have an input parameter allowing us to set a maximum number of files processed during one sftp get opera...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 6 Not under consideration

SSH host Key only allowing dsa and rsa

One of our 3rd parties mentioned that they were planning on doing a change to Host Key Algorithms to allow rsa-sha2-512 rsa-sha2-256 As more clients are moving to secure host keys we would prefer to have this option
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Show actual SFTP error in status report

Sterling 6.0 and up, in some cases, has replaced useful, specific SFTP error messages in the status report with vague ones that require diving into logs to troubleshoot. For example, if the host key is wrong when connecting to a partner, this is w...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Is a defect

AWS Adapter Enhancements

Enhancement list for AWS adapter includes the following: 1) perimeter server support 2) begin/end session functionality 3) managing credentials in SFG profile (obscuring creds requires that a script is run on the credentials before entering into S...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 3 Future consideration

AWS S3 service to look specific folder files in a Bucket

In latest Sterling Integrator AWS S3 service is returning a list of files from all folders in a bucket, there is no option to look for a specific folder files . It would really help customer if IBM considers this enhancement request and get it dev...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 8 Future consideration