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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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SSH key based authentication using LDAP

SSH Key based authentication with LDAP is not supported in B2BI, and also with SEAS integration. Even though SEAS has SSH Key support with LDAP, SEAS integration APIs with B2BI does not have support for sending SSH Key. During a sftp authenticati...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 1 Future consideration

OAuth support for HTTP Server Adapters

Currently HTTP Server Adapters in Sterling B2B Integrator only support basic authentication. It would be good if we can have OAuth authentication natively in B2Bi as OAuth is currently an industry standard for Authentication and Security and most ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 2 Planned for future release

JsontoXml out of box service.

Currently JsonToXml service converts a Json data file to respective xml format and stores the xml file in Filesystem under <Install-dir>/bin/output.xml. Parallelly it creates a tag called <output></output> with the xml data insi...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Utility to keep Cassandra tables in sync

There are times when Cassandra nodes may get out of sync and some of the nodes may deem it appropriate to bring back records that should no longer belong in the tables. For example: mailbox.messages, mailbox.messages_by_name and mailbox.messages_b...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Not under consideration

Support current SFTP/SSH host key and public key algorithms.

Sterling currently only supports ssh-rsa algorithm for host and public key. this is limiting sftp transfers with our new SFTP partners. New SFTP servers like Azure SFTP doesnt support ssh-rsa for host key algorithm. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

Enable JMS Service to be configured under Adapter Container (AC) in addition to ASI

Our environment mostly (around 80%) consists of JMS services (queues) and we want to segregate that from our ASI, sometimes we have to reboot the entire Application (SBI) if the queues does not move. We are planning to move JMS Services to Adapter...
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Support for DomToDoc to work correctly when used in service output message

You can currently use DomToDoc in the output message of a service Ex. <operation name="Replace Apostrophes"> <participant name="LW_SA_DKR"/> <output message="DocKeywordReplaceInputMessage"> <assign to="literal_mode">true<...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 2

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.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Easiest way to scan all BPs in B2Bi

Need ability for users to search inside the BPs for a keyword or search string. In B2Bi Dashboard has ability to search for code in XML/BPML directly from dashboard. Example I have defined one custom service in the business process and I want to k...
about 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 4 Functionality already exists

External Purge Memory settings are inconsistent between Windows and Linux/Unix and changing the memory settings is complicated

It is very confusing that Xmx for Ext Purge on Windows defaults to 512m no matter what the Noapp is tuned for. However on linux/Unix the -Xmx for External Purge is pulled from whatever the Noapp is set for. This is very inconsistent and can cause ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration