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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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Enable FIPS mode support to IBM Native PGP

My companies security and compliance required FIPS enabled for payload encryption for specific data classifications and exchanging data with specific US government entities. My company wanted to leverage IBM Native PGP instead of a 3rd party exter...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Delivered

AS2 Support for AES256 Message Encryption Algorithm

Sterling B2B Integrator AS2 currently supports only Triple DES Our partners are requesting to support AES encryption algorithm. One of the key partners is going to decommission support for triple DES by September 2018. This support for AES is very...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 3 Delivered

Enable TLS support for JDBC database connection

Cannot find any reference in Sterling B2B Advanced Communications documentation that TLS is supported for connections to the database. Requesting to add support for this feature.
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Delivered

Support for RMA Plus

Swift as part of CSP recommends usage of RMA Plus. Under RMA Plus, support is provided at the request type level. HSBC has upgraded to usage of RMA Plus, however we are limited as RMA Plus is not supported in Sterling integrator.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 2 Delivered

PGP key software - support for subkeys

Customers are moving on to using sub-keys in their PGP key stores and they are requesting us to implement support for accepting sub-keys in Sterling B2B Integrator. Sub-keys allow customers to rotate their keys easily by having one parent key hold...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Delivered

Please support Oracle Enterprise Linux in B2B Integrator

Please support Oracle Enterprise Linux in B2B Integrator. The kernel is identical to that of RHEL and it just requires thorough testing of the product by installing it on OEL (Oracle Enterprise Linux). OEL is becoming more and more popular and als...

IBM B2Bi compatibility for enforcing SELinux on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers.

As per recent trend many organisations are enforcing SELinux on the RHEL servers that are running the IBM Sterling applications and per IBM, Sterling B2bi integrator / Sterling File Gateway doesn't' support it.
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Delivered

Docker image for Power systems

We are currently running B2B Integrator on AIX and Power systems. To ease the transition to Dockers we would like to stay on Power system.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 2 Delivered

Industry Govenance - Mandatory Requirement - ebMS Header Validation

Sunsuper operates an ebms AS4 gateway which interacts with the Australian Taxation Office and the Superannuation Transaction Network (STN). As part of being a participant in STN, Sunsuper has become a member of the Gateway Network Governance Body ...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Delivered

When will SI support Microsoft SQL Server 2016?

We are upgrading to SI 5.6.3 and I see that only up to Microsoft SQL Server 2014 is supported. When will Microsoft SQL Server 2016 be supported? Will it ever be supported by SI 5.6.3? The client is upgrading all their other applications to SQL Ser...
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Delivered