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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 25, 2022

Allow kerberos authentication for Sterling B2B Integrator to connect to it's database

Security policy in our organisation mandates that applications must use integrated / trusted authentication to connect to databases (rather than SQL authentication / username + password). I'm unable to find any IBM documentation regarding this for Sterling Integrator (B2Bi is installed on Linux using MS SQL server database), and I'm unable to make this work by applying runtime arguments through run.sh and updating the jdbc connection string (like I can apply to other java programs using the same environment and JDBC driver).

What is your industry? Banking
How will this idea be used?

When the Sterling B2B Integrator is installed, and when it runs... connections to the database would be authenticated using kerberos, rather than username and password.

  • Guest
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    Sep 30, 2022

    Thank you for participating in the request for enhancement community. We have added this to our discussions with Microsoft and modern integration options in the cloud.

  • Guest
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    Sep 7, 2022

    Quick update - I have had some success in getting this to work... IBM team can refer to support case TS010131769