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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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Enable end users to replay their own files WITHOUT giving them any other administrative permissions.

End users often need to have files replayed due to various intermittent SFG error conditions. Allowing these users to replay their own files saves them time and saves SFG administrators the effort required to replay these files
over 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 6 Not under consideration

Create Business view in Config Center for Codelists, Mappings, Connections, Keys/Certficates

This feature will be helpful when there are codelists with same names across different BA's. Same map names such as document extraction maps or typing maps across different BA's. Could be helpful for connections and keys/certificates
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 4 Needs more information

Displaying a different color in CTE and production for Config Center and Legacy Inflight to help support to differentiate both environments,

Displaying a different color in CTE and production for Config Center and Legacy Inflight to help support to differentiate both environments.
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 5 Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 4 Future consideration

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

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

Support to process files from Multiple Sub-Folders in a single FTP/SFTP connection

Hi Team, We have a requirement where we need to integrate with partners having one FTP/SFTP connection and multiple subfolders. The files should be picked up or placed in different sub-folders within the same FTP/SFTP depending on the message type...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Needs more information

Allow map tests from Design Studio to run against SPE Server

This idea would allow users to run a map test from their locally installed copy of Design Studio on ITXA installed on a server, the same way that we can currently run IBM Mapper tests against Sterling Integrator, and run Design Studio map tests ag...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration