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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...
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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 ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 2 Planned for future release

Support for latest X12 standard versions (such as version 8050)

Trading partners are now using updated X12 standard versions, such as version 8050. Sterling B2B Integrator users/customers will not be able to do business with trading partners if standards are not in step with community X12 standard versions.
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 2 Future consideration

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...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

AS4 Connectivity and Configuration Support

Request the IBM update Sterling B2b to support complete AS4 (Applicability Statement 4) functionality for client and server transmissions. Initial request is focused on European standards, but desire is for design to meet global AS4 options. Reque...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1

Query that can provide a list of mailboxes that are not a part of any delete services

This report would provide us insight on mailboxes that need to be added to delete services. During onboards, there could be mistakes on adding mailboxes to delete services, and that way we know to update them.
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Submitted

Enable authentication by token on the Sterling B2B REST API

Seems like currently the B2B REST API only supports authentication of basic type, where username/password is sent in header of get/post/put HTTP call. Can there be a mechanism to authenticate via bearer token? Thanks very much!
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Planned for future release

Control the Business process scheduler execution timing by timezone

We are a global organization and have our B2Bi server installed in PST but have jobs scheduled to run in EST, PST, GMT, AEST, BST, etc. Currently we do not have a way to pick and choose the timezone for the BPs to get triggered. It defaults to the...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under 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

Fix the duplicate messaging issue for mailbox ftp/sftp server adapters

IBM says in their documentation that duplicate messages are allowed by default and is controlled by a parameter in the mailbox.properties file (disallowDuplicateMessages= false). This is inaccurate, We are seeing errors where duplicate filenames a...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

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