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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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Support of IBM WebSphere MQ 9.2

IBM have not claimed support for WebSphere MQ 9.2 support in Sterling B2B Integrator.The enhancement request is for the support of WebSphere MQ 9.2 in Sterling B2B Integrator. The latest version of IBM WebSphere MQ is 9.0.0.4.

OCP cluster/Linux SFG instance : Integrated authentication of MSSQL 2019 database

SFG setup using MSSQL 2019 database, Current our MSSQL supports only integrated authentication, we need to inputs here. 1. Does SFG supports integrated authentication? 2. if yes how to pass the custom parameter in the connection string "integrated...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Support transactional JSON in a similar manner to XML within Document Extract Service/X12 Envelope Service (and EDIFACT likely too)

We are a large user of Sterling B2Bi both BPs and Enveloping and historically we also have been for mapping as well. That said we have a lot of demand with the movement in the development space and even a few external facing areas toward JSON, as ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Group level envelope request correlation override, where GS envelope is setup for NO acknowledgement

For ISA level acknowledgement request we have correlation overrides parameter like Out_InterchangeAcknowledgmentRequested where as similar parameter is not available for overrides. Setup for this request : set outbound generic GS envelope with - E...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Future consideration

Fix the migration of envelopes from Sterling B2B Integrator and ITXA

When we export envelope from SI and import to ITXA, we are missing some configuration. Please see the word document attached. I am also attaching XML export file where you can find the UNH_DEFAULT_OUT envelope.
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Highlight False Relevancy

First off, I can't find anything that would be close to a Bigfix product in the product drop down. So, please route this and fix the drop down.
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Is a defect

Show more detail, on progress bar, when using IIM to upgrade B2Bi

Upgrading B2Bi v6.0 to v6.1 took almost two hours. For the majority of that time, IIM's progress bar sat at (about) 60%. It would be helpful to see what it's doing or even update the progress bar more frequently.
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Global Mailbox's Cassandra and ZooKeeper's SLES support

Having the ability to install CAS and ZK on SLES, avoiding mixed environments on existing installations (SLES for B2Bi and RHEL for CAS/ZK)
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 0 Future consideration

Enhancement to PGP Xprocessor functionality

Currently, The PGP XProcessor requires the following fields as input. The XProcessor Driver will look up the fields using the Profile Name and pass that data to the Utility class. Fields for Both Inbound and OutboundThe following fields are requir...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Enable to configure property maxNumberOfWSMQSuiteConnections greater than 500

There are clients who need more than 500 connections to MQ, 500 is a value so small. File where is configured wsmq.properties.in Description of property: # PROPERTY_NAME : maxNumberOfWSMQSuiteConnections ## PROPERTY_TYPE : Integer ## PROPERTY_DESC...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration