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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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We need an ability to create user name upto 60characters and email address upto 68 characters in B2Bi

We have a requirement to onboardi-ng partners with the user name upto 60 chars and email address up to 68 chars, and currently we noticed b2bi only allows 36chars in the user name field and 64chars in the email address field, and so can you provid...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 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

Add support for FASP in Sterling B2B Integrator

support for FASP protocol require in Sterling B2B Integrator
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 2 Future consideration

Enable support for AWS S3 Server Side Encryption on S3 Buckets

We need B2Bi AWS S3 Client Service adapter to support AWS S3 Server Side Encryption.
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 6 Planned for future release

Enhance SSH Remote Profile to support both Key AND Password Authentication

Currently, SSH remote profile, admins can configure either key or password authentication. Requesting to support Key AND Password Authentication.
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

DCB Information is missing in the parameters passed through the Process Data for CDSA Runtask

We have a requirement for additional parameters to be passed to the B2B Integrator CDSA through the Runtask exit to the Runtask Business Process script. Previously, parameters have been added to the data passed from the inbound Connect:Direct sess...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Not under consideration

JsontoXml out of box service.

Currently JsonToXml service converts a Json data file to respective xml format and stores the xml file in Filesystem under <Install-dir>/bin/output.xml. Parallelly it creates a tag called <output></output> with the xml data insi...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Code Lists Should Be Searchable

Code Lists should be searchable. It looks like this was done for PEM code lists (https://watsonsupplychain.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/PEM-I-114) but the same functionality was not given to B2Bi. Please remedy!
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

BP Exit Service

Add a "BP Exit Service", to cleanly terminate the current BP. Essentially the same as the "BP Exception Service" but without triggering an error.
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

Password policy enforcement - minimum change password timeframe

To deny automated user's password change, add an additional parameter in password policy indicating the minimum number of days between a password is changed and the next time it can be changed.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration