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Enabling the Compatibility of HSM with FIPS mode turned on in SI.

Enabling FIPS mode is an industry-standard best practice and ensures the application’s compliance with established security guidelines. To further strengthen the security posture, integration with an HSM is recommended so that private keys are sec...
2 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

Enabling Compatibility for HSM while FIPS mode turned on in application

Enabling FIPS mode is an industry-standard best practice and ensures the application’s compliance with established security guidelines. To further strengthen the security posture, integration with an HSM is recommended so that private keys are sec...
2 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Submitted

Access control for OMS AI agent

Fine grained access control is needed in OMS AI agent feature. Capability to manage access control to the Agentic AI chatbot, specific agents and features within the agent should be possible. In case of users not having access, the related UI cont...
2 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

Sequence number capability with configurable RESET options

Currently we have a hard Government requirement to reset a sequence number every year but would like to have a more generic configurable option which can be triggered via map. Provide a standard mapper function or something which can be called fro...
2 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Under review

Ensure AS2 MDN Response is Not Affected by HTTP Accept Header

Hi Team, I'd like to submit a feature request regarding AS2 (EDIINT) MDN handling in webMethods Integration Server. Currently, when watt.server.http.useAcceptHeader=true, the Integration Server determines the response format based on the incoming ...
3 days ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

JWT Token based authentication for MQ

Requesting the ability for Global Mailbox event rule adapter to authenticate to MQ using Token based authentication (JWT).
18 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Global Mailbox 0 Submitted

MQ connection for event rule adapter to have persistent connection for put operation.

In Sterling B2B Integrator with Global Mailbox solution, Global Mailbox(GM) event rule adapter configured in Sterling Integrator makes a persistent connection with MQ to get an event, however, it makes an individual separate connections to MQ to P...
18 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Global Mailbox 0 Submitted

Support ITX on Windows Server 2025

Customer needs to install ITX on Windows Server 2025
19 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Installation 1 Planned for future release

MFA support for SFG via OpenID connect or SAML

Currently SFG does not support MFA. We would like to have MFA support via OpenID connect or SAML due to security reasons in our company. Suggested workaround via Secured Jump Host is not compliant to our internal regulations.
about 1 month ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Submitted

Increase the column length of SOURCE_IP_ADDRESS in the YFS_ORDER_HEADER table based on IPv6 network standards

IPv6 is the newest networking standard. With that said, when will the SOURCE_IP_ADDRESS column on YFS_ORDER_HEADER table be updated with the new length? Currently it only supports 20 characters, whereas IPv6 is close to 40 characters.
11 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration