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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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Upgrade from Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable and 2015 version

Upgrade from Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable and 2015 version being used in ITX11 to latest mainstream version of 2023 and version after that. The two version currently in use are considered end of life by Microsoft.
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Planned for future release

Information systems which implement HTML 5 must adhere to the HTML 5 Security Standard.

Information systems which implement HTML 5 must adhere to the HTML 5 Security Standard. Changes to any other properties for the purpose of preventing cross-site vulnerabilities are not supported. Reference: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/b2b-integrat...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Needs more information

All input (user and service) must be validated on the server side to permit only the allowed characters and limited field length necessary for the corresponding function.

All input (user and service) must be validated on the server side to permit only the allowed characters and limited field length necessary for the corresponding function.
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Needs more information

Allow API access to control user access to VFS

We require the ability to query the webMethods.io MFT APIs to create/update users and create/update VFS permissions for users. Currently, we have over 50 VFS setup for external organisations to connect with over 400 credentials to manage. In an id...
about 1 month ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer SaaS 0 Submitted

User Portal Login protected with MFA

Currently when you enable the webMethods.io MFT HTTPS listener for users to login, users only require logging in with Username/password from across the world. Username and password authentication is not generally strong enough and it can be diffic...
about 1 month ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer SaaS 0 Submitted

Amazon S3 VFS should support AWS IAM Roles Anywhere Authentication

Most Amazon services support temporary credentials with certificate based authentication https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentials_temp_use-resources.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference_aws-service...
3 months ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

Better reporting of type 5 errors when code set table not valid in database

Currently, when a table name that doesn't exist in the database, we receive a generic Type 5 error in tack file indicating that the value from the input file is not in database. This can be misleading and make it difficult to pinpoint the root cau...
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Under review

Check if array is empty from if (new operator)

Ability to check in a if-statement wether an array is empty or not. Existing operators as is null and is empty and exists are not working for this. Now I have to determine the length of an array en test that. Very time consuming.
3 months ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer SaaS 0 Submitted

Allow to use two wildcards in SFTP Client LIST service

We would like to pick up files from our partners using two wildcards in RemoteFileName field in SFTP Client LIST and SFTP Client GET services.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

During SPE Enveloping service ISA & GS control number not getting incremented when a file has both Good and Bad transaction sets.

Issue Description:- We have integrated ITX with ITXA and calling Envelopes from ITXA by using SPE adapter in ITX rule. In the EDI Message, If we have a good transaction set as well as bad transaction set. The envelope is not being added to the EDI...
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Under review