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Provide support for Visual Studio 2-26 in Microsoft adapter by providing a IBM webMethods Add-In for Microsoft Visual Studio 2026

Currently the webMethods Microsoft Adapter provides support only until IBM webMethods Add-In for Microsoft Visual Studio 2017. We are requesting that this support be extended until Visual Studio 2026.
25 minutes ago in webMethods B2B SaaS Submitted

Connect:Direct for containers - S3 bucket setup available before the deployment

It would be highly beneficial to make the S3 bucket setup configurable directly within the values.yml file. For applications running in the OSE environment, this type of storage is the designated method for accessing data intended for transmission...
1 day ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade Submitted

Have the ability to code in the "user authorization record" to limit concurrent transfers/sessions a mapping can have at ONE time.

So one UserID on a Node cannot use up all the allocated "SECONDARY SESSION"
13 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS Submitted

Ability to Save Filters

We filter and extract 4 sets of data daily. The new filter screen is more time consuming to use since you have to use a drop down instead of just clicking in the field that needs filter criteria. Since it will now take more time, it would be very ...
1 day ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking Submitted

Be able to control enable/disable of Directory services dynamically for non-container based MWS installation

Hello Team, We normally use ./mws.sh getConfig ... commands to get the configuration information from DB onto the local and be able to manipulate the local file for various MWS configurations. One such requirement we have is to be able to control ...
1 day ago in webMethods B2B SaaS Submitted

Add delta/incremental snapshot support to productAvailabilitySnapshot.v2 — return only SKUs changed since a specified time

Currently, the productAvailabilitySnapshot.v2 event publishes a full snapshotof all SKUs every time it runs, regardless of whether those SKUs have had anychanges since the last snapshot. This means consumers must download, parse,and process the en...
2 days ago in Inventory Visibility Submitted

Add a clear EOF indicator to the productAvailabilitySnapshot.v2 event stream

The current End-of-File (EOF) message for the productAvailabilitySnapshot.v2event is indistinguishable from an empty or malformed payload. There is noexplicit field, flag, or marker that programmatically identifies it as theintentional end of a sn...
2 days ago in Inventory Visibility Submitted

CDWS in Containers - additional options accessible before the deployment

Connect Direct Web Services for containers should allow to have more control before the deployment. We need to have the following parameters delivered upfront from values.yaml to setup in OpenShift environment, what would speed up the deployment a...
4 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade Submitted

CDWS in Containers - disable GUI access option accessible before the deployment

Connect Direct Web Services for containers should allow to disable GUI access (and leave the RESTful API access only) before the deployment. Currently there is no such an option. We need to have this parameter delivered upfront from values.yaml to...
4 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade Submitted

CDWS in Containers - disable admin access option accessible before the deployment

Connect Direct Web Services for containers should allow to disable the admin access before the deployment. Currently CDWS requires to start the deployment, then setup admin password and restart the deployment. Having this parameter delivered upfro...
4 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade Submitted

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