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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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Adding a disclaimer before access dashboard and mailbox interface

When a user insert his credential in login page to access Sterling Integrator dashboard or Mailbox Interface page, should read a customizable message about the confidentiality obligations accessing the System, before to be redirected to IBM Sterli...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Restrict file types that can can be received by the SFTP server adaptor

it would add another layer to security
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Not under consideration

Map Editor for Mac

We should be able to install Map Editor client downloaded from SI dashboard on Mac computers.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 1 Not under consideration

Add xlsx as report format

Microsoft is phasing out the use of xls formatted files. You have to manually open and save each file to convert to xlsx.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Add support for Global Data Services (GDS) & Application Continuity and Transaction Guard (ACTG)- Oracle 19c

We would like to take advantages of some features Oracle has to offer in the new space which will increase application uptime and availability during database patching. In our environment in order to support rolling patches and ensure application ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Not under consideration

Partner Level Authentication

We are starting to see more and more customers want to move to SSH Key only auth, however, we are not set to that today, nor are all of our customers ready/willing to make that switch. Since the authentication requirement is set at a system level,...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration

gmsa account

Azure provide GMSA account for their customers . As per IBM (Case TS011227338) IBM is not supporing GMSA account for installation .
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

BPID shows active on queue watcher but UI shows terminated, some how the queue watcher JVM is out of synch with UI

I believe this being a bug or lack of functionality, Although this particular BPID was terminated from the UI then also via the command line -ControllerWorkFlow script but will not be remove from queue watcher! And also showed as terminated on UI....
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Alert mechanism for when Active BPs reach a certain threshold

Customizable alert mechanism of Active BPs - When Active BPs reach a certain threshold alert email should be sent. If we get this option in IBM B2Bi, it will be of great help as it is a proactive measure for Admins / stakeholders who supports IBM ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Enable FASP support via SSP Perimeter Servers

We recently learnt via a support ticket (as this is currently undocumented at the time of writing) that SSP is unable to route the UDP traffic used by C:D's High-Speed Add-On FASP through SSP Perimeter Servers. This severely limits the scenarios w...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Not under consideration