Overriding Properties

Property changes can be required to configure properties, tune performance, or for other reasons.

In these situations, use the options described below.
  • customer_overrides.properties – Make changes to this override file instead of individual property files to ensure that none of your changes are lost during an upgrade or patch installation. This also lets you see most of the overrides in your configuration at a glance rather than having to check each property file individually. This file is not delivered with the product; you must create it the first time you have a need for it.
    Note:
    You can use customer_overrides.properties to override property values for the following files in some instances:
    • archivethread.properties
    • ui.properties

    You cannot use customer_overrides.properties to override property values for tuning.properties.

    See the comments in each file for information on customizing settings.

    Important: You cannot configure the following property files by adding them in customer_overrides.properties either on disk or using the Customization UI. You can only read from disk from the respective files.
    • translator_swift.properties
    • translator_swift_*.properties (includes ALL years, error, mp, mp_customer, mp_customer_<year>, mx)
  • system_overrides.properties - This override file is automatically created or updated when you update system settings.
    CAUTION:
    Although Sterling B2B Integrator may update this file with settings from various components in the system, it is not recommended for user settings. You should use the customer_overrides.properties file for user settings.
  • sandbox.cfg – Contains name-value parameters that are merged with each *.in file to create the final properties files.