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PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...
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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Parity of local and global mailboxes in the B2B REST API

We want to include Global Mailboxes, list, and content extract, just like Local Mailboxes, as part of the B2B REST API. The aim is to enable 1touch and IBM IGDC to integrate with the IBM Sterling solution while monitoring all data passing through ...
2 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

EDIFACT Control Number override parameters are not unique

Hello Team, In our current implementation, we are attempting to override the EDIFACT control numbers present in both the UNB and UNH segments. However, through investigation with the PMR, we discovered that the Override parameters are being reused...
about 5 hours ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Submitted

Add feature on SharePoint Client Adapter to use display name of the document library.

On Sterling B2B Integrator, SharePoint Client Adapter has limitation that display and internal should be same on document library but in real world we have scenario that display and internal name is different and due to this, Sterling is unable to...
11 minutes ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

Display Protocol Delivery Failure Error Details in InFlight Event Details

When a file fails to get delivered via SFTP, AS2, etc. after the retry limit gets exhausted, we just see some basic details in the Event details of the "Retry Limit" step in InFlight as shown below. Reached retry count limit - Retry Count Limit: 5...
about 8 hours ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Submitted

Include Ghana maps in FinPay PLUS package

As domestic markets increasingly adopt ISO20022 standard, Financial Institutions are challenged to ensure integration of these new maps in their validation architecture. In this context, our customers are asking to include support for Ghana in Fin...
1 day ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Under review

Extended Status Representation for Delivery Status and Current Process Status

The current versions have a limited number of statuses. In SFG, the Delivery Status has either Started, Succeeded (Routed), Failed, or Ignored. In B2B, the Current Processes Status has a stoplight style image that is either Red (failure) or Green ...
2 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Submitted

Enhancing ISA Envelope Handling to Support Transaction-Level Control Number Checks

At present, a single ISA envelope is shared across multiple transactions for a given partner/client/version combination. This setup limits our ability to implement transaction-specific ISA envelope configurations—particularly for enabling duplicat...
7 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Submitted

Retry in HTTP adapter using GET function

This is follow up to case TS013933434. Requesting for retry option in HTTP adapter within GET() function. Sample rule: GET("HTTP","-METHOD PUT -URL %sequenceapi_url%&type=ulid&format=ccyy-999999")
23 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Under review

Need to have a way to switch EBICS User Roles

We have a current situation where our client has asked us to switch the roles of two EBICS user accounts—from technical to non-technical and vice versa. I'm asking for a way to configure a current EBICS user without having to delete the user accou...

Add support for EDIFACT Syntax Version 'X' in UNB envelope

It appears that the latest EDIFACT standards ("VDA-EDIFACT" for automotive) allow for an 'X' to be used as the syntax version in the UNB envelope. Unfortunately, doing so fails both enveloping and de-enveloping in SB2Bi (as confirmed by IBM PMR TS...
8 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 1 Submitted