Yes, I was just going to recommend that. Use Image:Geometry:Rotate 90 degrees, then use CanonBandingReduction, then rotate back. It has worked wonders for me, though I use CCDOps for my SBIG STL now, just deal with it at the source.
As for documentation, well, the full docs are indeed not fully ready yet. You'll find that when processes are documented in PI, they are documented insanely well:
http://pixinsight.com/doc/tools/ImageIntegration/ImageIntegration.htmlHowever, not every process has full documentation like this. Instead, the hover-over tooltips within processes often give a LOT of great info.