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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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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

Ability to correlate deferred documents with the ST control number assigned to them at time of enveloping

For each document that we process and defer, we lose track of the specific control numbers that are assigned at the time of enveloping. For instance, if you defer 5 separate documents at various times and later run enveloping, we need a method to ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration

Provide availability and functionallity for Property Files from DB in order to use them in containers and On-Premise installations (essentially customer_overrides) description:

According to Support/Lab advice, we proceed to open the following RFE. The intention is to provide fully the use of properties from databases no matter if there is being used an on-premise or containers installation of the SBI. This functions were...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Needs more information

RE: 64 Character Limitation In Email section on SI User Accounts

Hi Team, We noticed that there is a 64 character length limitation in email section on SI user accounts, please check the attached screenshot for better understanding to what I'm referring to. 64 character length limitation is not sufficient for o...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Future consideration

JSON Layout Generator

As part of Map Change team we receive requests for JSON map development. JSON maps layout will be differ from typical maps as the expected output is human readable text to store and transmit data objects consisting of attribute–value pairs and arr...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 2 Planned for future release

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.
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Planned for future release

Enhancing the Password Policy

No description provided
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 3 Functionality already exists

Password cannot be obscured in CSR Create property file

Hi Team, We are using HSM to create certificates. While creating a CSR, if I provide the store password as OBSCURED, I am getting the following error. However, if I use a normal password, I do not encounter this error. Please note that we are not ...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Indicate Perimeter Servers which do not have a Service Adapter using it

In Troubleshooter, SI shows the current status of Perimeter Servers. This is the location where users are able to disable/enable the PS. On this same screen, it could also show a count of how many service adapters are using each perimeter server.e...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Make the zip file layer more efficient when unzipping large numbers of files

Any customer using zip files which contains a large number of files (1000s) to be delivered to a single or even multiple consumers will notice that it can take hours to deliver even a small number 4800 small sub 1KB files to a single mailbox. If a...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Under review