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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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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

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

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

if Json Payload shows in the process data on API call that should be very good visible

Json Payload is not showing in the process data on API call in the current Current SB 6.0.2 .Its ended up no visibility on source data when its processing or no visibility if something goes wrong in the soruce data
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 3 Planned for future release

Allow for periods in Provisional Facts in SFG

In Sterling File Gateway, when elected to use a provisional fact in a Routing Channel Template, it does not all for periods in the value you can input when creating the routing channel. This causes the need for a custom business process and compli...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Update the EBICS HAC schema to comply with standard

the xml schema used in EBICS HAC is ISO20022 pain.002.001.05 when it should be pain.002.001.03 according to the 2.5 version of the standard. Even more, in version 3.0 is not updated to .05 and still remains .03 (need to be doubled checked though)
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 0 Planned for future release

Customer requires complete encryption of all objects stored at rest in B2Bi/SFG database including trading partner information

Requirement has been stated by customer that all columns in the B2Bi/SFG database be encrypted, beyond what is hashed (passwords) and at-rest encryption (documents). This would include more recent sensitive information such as user names, IPs and ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 0 Future consideration

EBICS Server / Client support of xml structures without ds: prefixes

As of now EBICS Server and Client is not able to parse XML structures without ds prefixes in some places, so the parses explicitly needs those. Where as the XML itself is valid against the XSD of the EBICS order types. We need to have the EBI...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 1 Planned for future release

Need proper PDF Documentation of version 6.0.0.0

The existing HTML format documentation is not easy to use. The generate PDF link on the version 6.0 documentation will generate probably 100 pdfs. We need proper PDF documents ...may be one install pdf, one planning pdf and one administration pdf....
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Documentation 0 Is a defect