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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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Add AD Authentication option for Database Connections

Add support for AD authentication between SI and its database. This would allow the username/password to be managed outside of the application properties files and more easily align with company policies regarding password complexity and who has a...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

CLA2Server publicCertAlias

Now publicCertAlias value of the Command line adapter2 server (CLA2Server) only support the leaf certificate instead of root/intermediate certificate for client authentication with CLA2Client. So it means that all CLA2Client adapter must be use th...
25 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

More than one MQ pool for Sterling B2Bi adaptors

There is a bug in sterling B2Bi websphere mq pool code that means that if you have: multiple qm's (qm A, B, C) connected to the one sterling instance Then one adaptor cannot access one queue manager (e.g. qm A goes down) the whole MQ pool becomes ...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

Global Mailbox aged documents or orphan file deletion

On a B2B Integrator software, where HighAvailability is not needed, the payload storage is on shared drive with a simple directory path /opt/b2bsi/documents/2024/01/..... the path has a linear map towards the payload storage. Even if payload gets ...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Needs more information

Connect to SMB shares from Sterling B2B Integrator hosted on Unix / Linux

For Sterling Integrator hosted on Unix/Linux OS, there is no direct capability to exchange files with Windows Network Shared folders. The recommended solution from IBM for this is to use a samba client on the Unix/Linux machine and mount the windo...

Reject clearly the SSH key when unencrypted

When checking-in a new SSH user identity key, if the key is not encrypted, then SBI accepts it anyway but the key is unusable (check-out failure). If SBI requires the key to be encrypted then it should mention it clearly and it should not allow th...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 1 Future consideration

HA Connectivity for Sterling Integrator to Oracle Database and Support Multiple scan address for RACs Scan

Hi Team, We would like to have a feature in sterling integrator to support HA connectivity when connect to oracle Database and also to support multiple scan address for RACs scan. Currently in sterling application we have configured the jdbc conne...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Under review

Java LTS - SI/B2BI needs a defined roadmap plan for Java Long Term Support adoption (e.g. Java 11 & Java 17)

A path and solid timeline for upgraded Java Long Term Support version adoption needs to be defined for the entire suite of IBM Sterling products. Information Risk Management teams and groups are requiring all applications to migrate and leverage u...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 3

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...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Submitted

SSH key based authentication using LDAP

SSH Key based authentication with LDAP is not supported in B2BI, and also with SEAS integration. Even though SEAS has SSH Key support with LDAP, SEAS integration APIs with B2BI does not have support for sending SSH Key. During a sftp authenticati...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 1 Future consideration