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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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Ability to setup by parameter in SB2BI the temporary File Transfer folder for S3 Amazon socket instead of <SB2BI install/tmp> hard coded

STELLANTIS Request: Using the S3 bucket Adapter, By default The file is exported to the product installation directory (<SI_install>/tmp) for the temporary storage, which is very dangerous because the filesystems dedicated to product install...
13 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Ability to Block Concurrent Sessions of All Users

Due to security reasons, it is necessary to have the option to block concurrent sessions of all users. Right now, it can be only be achieved via Bandwidth Limiting Policy however since that option affects only the selected users, newly created use...
10 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

Native PGP needs to support AEAD(Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data) cipher

Our multiple finance customers requesting to support for AEAD cipher in PGP in file transfers. We are using Native PGP which is bundled in B2Bi/SFG. Current Native PGP adheres to RFC 4880 which doesn't support AEAD. We need AEAD support in product...
13 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

Allow DENY permissions for the SCHEDULER

For example, for out-of-hours incidents, we would like to allow a certain operator-type role to be able to Disable a scheduled business process or service but not to be able to modify the actual schedule itself. Currently the on-duty operator has ...

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...
16 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Azure Blob Storage Service Principal

Request that IBM update the object store client adapter to support authentication via Microsoft Entra id service principal. Unlike the current configuration option which supports secret key or account key, the enhancement would support configuring...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Planned for future release

Provision of adding of extra annotation to Statefulset/Pods using Helm charts Values file

While setting up IBM Sterling Integrator (or SEAS/SSP) in containerized way currently there is no Standard way of adding Extra Annotations to Statefulset/Pods in IBM Sterling Integrator helm charts using Values file Right now to add any extra anno...

Report on the Ciphers and MAC algorithms and TLS versions in use for all trading partner connections

In order to be able to remove deprecated ciphers and algorithms, it is handy to know if any existing trading partners are utilising these to (a) determine impact of removal, and (b) identify and provide correspondence to affected partners when we ...
9 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

AS4 Connectivity and Configuration Support

Request the IBM update Sterling B2b to support complete AS4 (Applicability Statement 4) functionality for client and server transmissions. Initial request is focused on European standards, but desire is for design to meet global AS4 options. Reque...

Improving the IBM B2Bi Sterling Integrator logic when a system certificate expires

The B2Bi Sterling Integrator product does not seamlessly pick up or scan the system (netmap or adapters) for a new/valid certificate after a CA expires. As an IBM customer and a long term B2B Sterling Integrator consumer, on two separate occasions...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration