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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...

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Add support for Global Data Services (GDS) & Application Continuity and Transaction Guard (ACTG)- Oracle 19c

We would like to take advantages of some features Oracle has to offer in the new space which will increase application uptime and availability during database patching. In our environment in order to support rolling patches and ensure application ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Not under consideration

Sterling Integrator JMS Adapter Issue in consuming messages

There is an issue that happens when an outside source sends a file with a “null” message inside the message body to the B2Bi JMS adapter: the Sterling JMS adapter process is going into an endless loop when receiving the Null value inside the body ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Is a defect

BPID shows active on queue watcher but UI shows terminated, some how the queue watcher JVM is out of synch with UI

I believe this being a bug or lack of functionality, Although this particular BPID was terminated from the UI then also via the command line -ControllerWorkFlow script but will not be remove from queue watcher! And also showed as terminated on UI....
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Mail Client adapter to allow Oauth 2.0 with grant_type as Client Credentials

The out of the box B2B mail client adapter allows to make connections to the mail exchange server for OAuth2.0 with grant_type as "Password" only. The grant_type as password is an obsolete and a vulnerable way of getting tokens and should allow gr...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Alert mechanism for when Active BPs reach a certain threshold

Customizable alert mechanism of Active BPs - When Active BPs reach a certain threshold alert email should be sent. If we get this option in IBM B2Bi, it will be of great help as it is a proactive measure for Admins / stakeholders who supports IBM ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

File Transmission API for B2Bi

No description provided
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Functionality already exists

Allow B2B APIs to create/modify/delete Native PGP Keys

Currently the ability to interact with Native PGP keys via API only appears to be available when SFG is licensed, though the Native PGP functionality is available with the standard B2B Integrator, so we'd like the ability to onboard our users and ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Is a defect

Capture partner TLS version information during handshake

For all communications protocols (FTPs, SFTP, AS2, ConnectDirect etc), we would like to capture TLS version in logs. In case of upgrades, it helps to work with respective partners to upgrade to supported TLS version.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Functionality already exists

Upgrade/Fix Installation should log and recreate the custom Database Indexes dropped during the installation

As per the current design , Fix installation drops all the Custom Indexes created on Database and recreates the Database schema without the custom indexes dropped. Customers will be having lot many custom changes (Custom Indexes) done on Data...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

APIClient business process can pull and place file on Sterling filegateway mailbox path option too along with file system mailbox path

APIClient business process can pull and place file on Sterling filegateway mailbox path option too along with file system mailbox path
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration