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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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Specify our desired default settings for Preferred Cipher and Preferred MAC Algorithm

When creating a new SSH Remote Profile, the Preferred Cipher and Preferred MAC fields are defaulting to values that are deprecated (blowfish-cbc and hmac-sha1). I was told that those deprecated settings are hardcoded in the B2Bi application. We wi...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

HA Connectivity for Sterling Integrator to Oracle Database and Support Multiple scan address for RACs Scan

Hi Team, We would like to have a feature in sterling integrator to support HA connectivity when connect to oracle Database and also to support multiple scan address for RACs scan. Currently in sterling application we have configured the jdbc conne...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Under review

Portable installation for B2B (non container)

In our environment we do not use container for B2B, but we have an automated installation process using IBM Installation Manager, however this process is slow and difficult to generate all the steps to make it autonomous. We would like the B2B ins...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Internal system required certificates prevention

We received the alert for expired certificate in email. We mistakenly removed the expired document encryption cert doccrypto2. After we worked with the support and we found out this cert is required and even it is expired. Our problem is if this i...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

Cleanup prior version .jar files

The install/upgrade/patch/hotfix process should cleanup the prior version .jar files. We have been running since 2016 and every .jar file from upgrades are in the <install>/packages folders as well as other folders having years worth of back...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration

Change security logs format

The security logs can be changed to display more information in a single line. It will help security teams to identify who creates/deletes users or groups.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration

Enable user exits for the Connect Direct Server Adapter

The Connect Direct Server Adapter in B2B Integrator supports the Connect Direct transmissions protocol but does not support other Connect Direct features which are of value to our customers. If the CDSA could function more closely to a Connect:Dir...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Planned for future release

Add native AS4 support to B2BI

We are a global manufacturer who has EDI trading partners in many countries. In Europe, AS4 is rapidly become a requirement. We would appreciate having our existing B2BI Solution (IBM Sterling B2BI) continue to be our one stop shop for all trading...
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Functionality already exists

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.
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Fix "Unsigned application requesting unrestricted access to system" Error when launching Graphical Process Modeler

When launching GPM it produces and error message "Unsigned application requesting unrestricted access to system". There is a workaround currently but this request is to have a permanent fix included in a future version of Sterling Integrator. The ...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future consideration