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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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Capabilities to connect to Google Cloud Storage bucket

Currently there is no adapter or services which enables us to connect to a Google cloud storage bucket. It would be really good to have this functionality.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 3 Planned for future release

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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 4 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.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

GnuPG latest version (2.2.x) integration with B2Bi 6.x

After upgrade of B2Bi from 5.2.6.x to 6.1.1.0, we are no longer able to use GnuPG. 6.1.1.0 has supported OS for RHEL 7/8. Newer RHEL versions have latest GnuPG installed on it as base package configuration where we are getting (2.2.x) version. B2B...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

File replay on surviving data center using metadata from cassandra if the processing data center goes down

Currently , if the file is uploaded to the datacenter (DC) and that DC goes down, there is no way to replay that file until the DC comes up. This causes adverse impact on customer's business. Having this will help the production support to replay ...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Future consideration

Support Oracle RAC in load balance mode

IBM's largest customers have invested heavily to implement Oracle RAC databases for resilience but due to the way B2Bi's database is designed there are performance implications to switching on RAC load balance mode. This forces all queries to a si...
29 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Submitted

Enhance QueueWatcher extraction workflow id and bp names and how many milliseconds it ran to Kafka EventStreams

Request to enhance the QueueWatcher extraction functionality to capture and publish additional metadata—specifically Workflow ID, Business Process names, and execution time in milliseconds—to Kafka EventStreams for improved observability and analy...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Ability to Block Concurrent Sessions of All Users

Due to security reasons, it is necessary to have the option to block concurrent sessions of all users. Right now, it can be only be achieved via Bandwidth Limiting Policy however since that option affects only the selected users, newly created use...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Functionality already exists

Native PGP needs to support AEAD(Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data) cipher

Our multiple finance customers requesting to support for AEAD cipher in PGP in file transfers. We are using Native PGP which is bundled in B2Bi/SFG. Current Native PGP adheres to RFC 4880 which doesn't support AEAD. We need AEAD support in product...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Integration with Azure Entra ID for user authentication

User authentication support with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and SAML 2.0 in the Sterling B2B Integrator product, for integration with Azure Entra ID.Not just LDAP support.
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Planned for future release