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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...
PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...

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active Transfer logs had an option to record the actions performed

It would be interesting if the Active Transfer logs had an option to record the actions performed on files and folders in the Web Client, such as copying, pasting, deleting, cloning, or moving to another location. This would allow us to have a rec...
5 months ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

AS2 File status updates

When trying to send a file to the customer, it shows in PCM that the file was successful. See screenshot #1. When you View Activity, it shows that the file/s were sent to AS2. See screenshot #2. However, the AS2 connection is not working. When tes...
9 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Submitted

Request for improvement of the CONNECT DIRECT manual contents so that incompatibility information items are clearly indicated

Our client plans to upgrade Connect:Direcr for z/OS from V6.1 to V6.4 in 2025 and we need to provide them with information about incompatibilities from V6.4 to V6.1. We checked the manual of IBM Connect:Direct for z/OS 6.4 Documentaion, but there ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Submitted

Provision of adding of extra annotation to Statefulset/Pods using Helm charts Values file

While setting up IBM Sterling Integrator (or SEAS/SSP) in containerized way currently there is no Standard way of adding Extra Annotations to Statefulset/Pods in IBM Sterling Integrator helm charts using Values file Right now to add any extra anno...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Global variables in MFT

It is required to enable the use of global variable in MFT, so you can configure different paths, email address, ... based on environments.
3 months ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer SaaS 0 Submitted

MFT Zero Trust Architecture Support

To achieve zero trust architecture in MFT scenarios, customer wants JWT support for authentication & authorization where scope needs to be handled outside of MFT solution and should be dynamic where a scope for a user/connection changes, MFT s...
4 months ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

PCM File Reprocessing

User would like the ability to see the status updating with the appropriate status once a file has been reprocessed. Example when a file has been reprocessed user would like to see the different stages the file is flowing though (Processed, Timed ...
9 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Submitted

Swagger UI for Sterling External Authentication Server APIs

Currently we see that there is no Swagger UI for Sterling External Authentication Server APIs. We need to extensively use the APIs for adding changing any configuration in SEAS rather than manually doing the same and with no Swagger UI for SEAS m...

Enable the audit log for ITX flows at the pre and post processor levels in Inflight.

When a ITX map is invoked as TX map if there is a fail function written in map then we get "AUDIT LOG" inflightBut when ITX map is invoked as xproc map if there is a fail function written in map then we do not get "AUDIT LOG" inflight. Please enab...
about 23 hours ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Submitted

Adding additional objects synchronization between data centers to perform access to Global Mailboxes

Please, consider adding additional objects synchronization between data centers to perform access to Global Mailboxes. The reason is because various objects are needed to allow access to the customers to the mailboxes. For example, and depending...
16 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 0 Submitted