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Simplify the JDBC Driver Update Procedure

During a recent database migration, it was necessary to update the JDBC driver used by Sterling Integrator. The procedure to do this is well-documented here: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-update-jdbc-driver-ibm-sterling-b2b-integrator-vers...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Standalone Java upgrade

Considering enhanced focus on Java vulnerabilities and the frequency in which they are discovered, its difficult to keep pace with resolving them, if every time Product upgrade is needed. Please see if the Java upgrade can be done stand alone for ...
19 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Upgrade WLP standalone

WLP releases new versions every month, as per organizational policy of n-2 we always stay non-compliant with any product upgrade. By the time product upgrade is released at-least 1 newer version of WLP would be present. Internal cycle to deploy SI...
20 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Container deployment or upgrade may not work in shared environments

There's been a few cases pointed out where the B2BI/SFG example container scripts for creating SCCs, Cluster Roles, Rolebindings, etc do not work in shared environments. This is interfering with deployments and upgrades in shared environments. In ...

IBM Sterling Products - provide Ansible / Chef playbooks for patching and deploying products

Manual installation and patching of IBM Sterling products is very risky, time-consuming, and error-prone, which is not sustainable for long-term support. Our business is seeking automated playbook recipes (e.g., Chef or Ansible) from IBM for produ...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Support for token authentication

Some of REST APIs for IBM products have token authentication implemented. I.e., call a sign in API to get a token, and then use the token in a HTTP Header for all other API calls. Example Products: IBM Sterling Secure Proxy: https://www.ibm.com/su...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 3 Planned for future release

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator External Perimeter Server Version details.

Logging the version details of IBM Sterling B2B External Perimeter Server either files like "PSLogger" or "StartupPS.log" or "remote_perimeter.properties" files of IBM external perimeter server. This would be more helpful during below scenario'...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

Store more than 10 data fields

Often we have scenarios where SFG Solution uses external database tables. These tables can have any number of columns. When PEM activities are customized to collect data from sponsor/partner for the table and if the number of columns is more than ...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Extra Cols in Table on UI Dialog

Table on UI Dialogs can have a max of 10 columns. Sometimes more than 10 columns are required to collect data from sponsors/partners. Please extend the number of max columns a table can have.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Support Additional methods of smtp authentication

PEM currently only supports basic authentication for SMTP. ( user id, password ). At most, it does allow you to select between smtp and smtps. However, smtp providers have been moving away from basic authentication for some time. PEM does not allo...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 1 Future consideration