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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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Enhancement Support Case for App Gateway

Enhancement Support Case for App Gateway As we have been using App gateway along with Load balancer , below are the two cases where we have had to fix issues with Microsoft and Internal Pepsi app gateway team to resolve logout issues TS009590679 T...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Future consideration

Create monitoring plan for threads, connections and buffers using QW

We have a need to monitor threads, connections and thread pools with the help of Queue watcher. Currently QW provide just the snapshot but there is no reporting from the same. We had multiple times the situation where the application is utilising...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Future consideration

Allow Connect Direct processes "Waiting on I/O" to stop consuming a Thread (similar to how SFTP operates)

In order to expand usage of Connect Direct inside B2Bi, Connect Direct processes need to behave similar to other protocols. Connect Direct consumes an entire Thread (queue watcher) the entire time a Connect Direct transfer is occurring. With other...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Future consideration

Ability to route files from alternate datacentre in Global Mailbox

We currently receive files internally from multiple sources into Global Mailbox which is load balanced across the two datacentres. We have had situation whereby a file has come into DC1 and we have needed to redeliver the file in DC2 due to issues...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Future consideration

RestAPIs support to Create/Update and Delete MAP Files

This will help us to include Maps for our CICD Pipeline where we are updating B2Bi Assets using B2Bi RestAPIs.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Future consideration

support of Oauth2 & OIDC in Sterling integrator

With more and more "business" moving to the cloud, it will be essential
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Support transactional JSON in a similar manner to XML within Document Extract Service/X12 Envelope Service (and EDIFACT likely too)

We are a large user of Sterling B2Bi both BPs and Enveloping and historically we also have been for mapping as well. That said we have a lot of demand with the movement in the development space and even a few external facing areas toward JSON, as ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Allow to use two wildcards in SFTP Client LIST service

We would like to pick up files from our partners using two wildcards in RemoteFileName field in SFTP Client LIST and SFTP Client GET services.
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Group level envelope request correlation override, where GS envelope is setup for NO acknowledgement

For ISA level acknowledgement request we have correlation overrides parameter like Out_InterchangeAcknowledgmentRequested where as similar parameter is not available for overrides. Setup for this request : set outbound generic GS envelope with - E...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Future consideration

Fix the migration of envelopes from Sterling B2B Integrator and ITXA

When we export envelope from SI and import to ITXA, we are missing some configuration. Please see the word document attached. I am also attaching XML export file where you can find the UNH_DEFAULT_OUT envelope.
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration