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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...
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...

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Restrict user permission (Read/Write/Download etc) in SFG MyFiles for Sterling File Partners

This would help ensure clients have proper user permissions (Read, Write, Download etc) in SFG MyFile 2.0. This gives a level of security on that account if that account should only download files or read files.
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Needs more information

Change date used in "Reviews and Exports" report

Currently it is using a field that is labeled "Snapshot Date" but it is actually "New last period end date" which is the last day of the month before the snapshot. Given this report is looking at reviews, exports and commits it should be looking a...
2 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 3 Future consideration

Test and certify Connect Direct to use DFS in addition to UNC paths

Connect Direct has not been tested nor certified to use DFS paths instead of UNC paths. The use of DFS paths allows Connect Direct copy configurations to automatically switch to a new device location vs the current use of UNC paths where we would ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

Ability to search archived orders using newly added fields to index mapping

The successful archival of orders into the Order Service results in their deletion from the OMS. Businesses often have new requirements for additional search criteria to look up orders based on internal and customer needs. We have observed that on...
2 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Increase large file content to more than 16k

The limit on file content in transaction view is quite low. Can it be possible to get a setting for this instead?
7 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Future consideration

Enhance DTK to run in exploded mode

Developers need a way to deploy customizations quickly and run tests on the tool kit. In the non-docker solution, there was a exploded mode deployment wherein the custom.jar can be replaced, appserver bounced to perform unit testing No such opt...
2 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

HULFT is a next-generation enterprise solution for managed file transfer (MFT)

file transfer
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

Enable JMS Service to be configured under Adapter Container (AC) in addition to ASI

Our environment mostly (around 80%) consists of JMS services (queues) and we want to segregate that from our ASI, sometimes we have to reboot the entire Application (SBI) if the queues does not move. We are planning to move JMS Services to Adapter...
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

ITX - Support for http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace

When trying to import XSD files that import the namespace http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace, we see errors in Design Studio that the schema is not valid. Support should be added for this namespace, which is still valid and still used in many XS...
11 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

Override CURRENTDATETIME value by run parameter

Our team wants to build automatic regression tests for continous integration and simplifying release changes. Also the tests would be repeatable. The outputs in between two runs are different if the output contains an CURRENTDATETIME function. We ...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 2 Not under consideration