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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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Integrate internal source control to standard source control tools (e.g. git) or artifact repositories (e.g. artifactory)

Secure management of code and config for large enterprises is pushing heavily towards standard repositories. These are increasingly used not only to assist developers, but also as points of governance and auditabiltiy. Sterling's internal source ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Extension of maximum length for schedule parameters

schedule parameters in B2BI seems to have maximum length of 100 characters. This became evident when a b2b rest api failed to create a schedule parameter for remote pull directory location which was more than 100 characters long. This should be in...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future consideration

sftp client list service should have configurable parameter to list the number of files.

In certain customer sites, The file count that need to be picked up using sftp client services range from 1 to 100,000 from partner's sftp server. When we use the sftp client list service to list the files (when the file count is at max range) the...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

Add GCM Encryption Algorithm

Currently while configuring the AS2 profile for partners, the only encryption algorithms allowed are DES, RC2 and AES. We need the GCM ciphers also to be made available on the dropdown for "Encryption Algorithm"
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Enhancement for S3 Put service in Sterling Integrator tool

we need to invoke the AWS S3 Put BP from a parent BP. The AWS S3 Put BP always asks for a path of the source file and it doesn't take the file from parent BP like other BPs/Services Hence, we need an enhancement to achieve this without giving a...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Future consideration

"Basic Authentication" on myfilegateway 2.0 not working

On myfilegateway 2.0, the trouble we get is that the authentication failed if the basic authentication is activated (option "User authentication Required").During the authentication, the browser request credentials but there are no taken into acco...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Remove Appending of ~1 Process for Map name on Outbound Maps

Question Why do map names in Process Data sometimes have '~1' appended? Cause For all outbound map names, the ~1 is appended to the name and stored in the ENVELOPE_PARMS table. The ~1 represents outbound. There is nothing appended to inbound map n...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Traffic Throttle Mechanism per User/Customer in SFG

There was an instance when a customer uploaded huge number of files every second due to an issue on the customer side which broke the system on our side. We have a traffic throttle mechanism requirement where we can throttle the traffic in SFG pe...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

AWS Adapter Enhancements

Enhancement list for AWS adapter includes the following: 1) perimeter server support 2) begin/end session functionality 3) managing credentials in SFG profile (obscuring creds requires that a script is run on the credentials before entering into S...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 3 Future consideration

External Purge Memory settings are inconsistent between Windows and Linux/Unix and changing the memory settings is complicated

It is very confusing that Xmx for Ext Purge on Windows defaults to 512m no matter what the Noapp is tuned for. However on linux/Unix the -Xmx for External Purge is pulled from whatever the Noapp is set for. This is very inconsistent and can cause ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration