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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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Management of OFTP2 Certificates = Time Consuming with SBI

On SBI, OFTP2 management is time consomming.
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Future consideration

Connect to SMB shares from Sterling B2B Integrator hosted on Unix / Linux

For Sterling Integrator hosted on Unix/Linux OS, there is no direct capability to exchange files with Windows Network Shared folders. The recommended solution from IBM for this is to use a samba client on the Unix/Linux machine and mount the windo...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

Putting a limit for number of files being transferred in some time

we have decided to apply a limit on few of the partners not to dump more than 1000 files in 30 minutes. Otherwise they keep on dumping tonns of files in very short time (like 20 to 30 mins) which ends up consuming all the resources by this partner...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Add B2Bi REST API audit logs

B2Bi Rest API is becoming common in several solutions but there is not a proper audit log file or report to verify information like " USER - ACTION / API - TIMESTAMP" It is difficult to understand what is actually being consumed, by whom and how o...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 4 Planned for future release

B2BAC purge for custom B2BI processing events written back to B2BAC MEIGUI Events table

IBM's preferred delivery partner delivered a solution to write certain B2Bi processing events back into the MEIGUI database, EVENTS table so that they can be displayed within the UI of B2BAC. Screen shot attached. There are linked back on the B2BA...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Planned for future release

Setup AWSS3 transfer with out any secret and access key

Our Cloud security team isn't recommending any integration to setup AWSS3 transfer with any secret and access key. They are looking for some thing where we could leverage the S3 route with out secret and access key.
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

Portable installation for B2B (non container)

In our environment we do not use container for B2B, but we have an automated installation process using IBM Installation Manager, however this process is slow and difficult to generate all the steps to make it autonomous. We would like the B2B ins...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Fine grained authorisation for REST services

It seems any user in APIUser can execute any Product service. In our solution we might want to permission different users (identified by an access token , I've raised other Ideas for that) to have different access to services (proxied through the ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Postgresql as database (or support sqlserver emulated on aurora - aws babelfish)

We need support on aws aurora or aws sqlserver emulated by aurora (babelfish) as databases for sterling. Aurora is growing more and more and offers several benefits which make it very attractive for companies like ours. In our case, we have moved ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

Require MEIG to perform certificate matching on unique values

In a scenario where multiple CA certificates having the same value for the DN Subject parameter exist in the database, MEIG can retrieve the wrong CA certificate and cause a valid Trading Partner certificate to incorrectly be interpreted as invali...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Planned for future release