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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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Oracle 12gR2 support in B2Bi 5263

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about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 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 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 3 Delivered

Sterling B2B Integrator full support for SQL Server 2016 'Always On' features

The database that supports B2B Integrator needs to be highly available - and the facility which supports high availability in SQL Server 2016 is the "Always-On-Availability-Group" feature. B2BI needs to support this to provide a highly available p...

Enhance the product to prevent large file transfers from failing when the TCP channel goes idle and gets closed due to inactivity.

When using the Aspera FASP capability in Connect Direct and SSP the TCP channel will go completely idle while the data is being transferred over the UDP channel. Production networks will detect this as an inactive sessions after tjust a few minute...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Delivered

Ability to use TLS 1.2 for LDAP adapter inside B2B Integrator

Currently LDAP adapter allows only password based authentication. It would be really benefit banks if password & certificate are used for two factor authentication.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Delivered

Unable to create the connect direct partner using custom protocol from B2Bi REST API

We are trying to create connect direct partner via custom protocol using B2BI rest api. We are unable to add below values which have comma(,) in middle while creating the partner in custom extensions RemoteDCB:(RECFM=FB,LRECL=160) RemoteDISP:(NEW,...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 0 Delivered

Add Multi-Factor Authentication on Mailbox for Mail Process

The basic authentication of Microsoft is about to be decommissioned and most will be switching to multi-factor authentication. This is a request for a multi-factor authentication support for B2B Mail Client Adapter which connects to Office 365 ser...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 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 installing a ...

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.
almost 6 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 security ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Delivered