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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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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...
4 months 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...
4 months ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer SaaS 0 Submitted

GPM (Graphical Process Modeler)

The current version of GPM does not function with the current Java SDK levels. The last valid Java JDK is Java 1.8.0_281. This fails to meet current Java versions for vulnerability issues. As a result, many will have to justify the need to run an ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 8 Functionality already exists

encryption of passwords in setup.cfg

There are multiple passwords mentioned in the file setup.cfg - database, truststore, test mode, etc. these passwords are expected to be encrypted as per customers security requirements. Currently these are in plaintext.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Enable connection pooling for remote nodes when using CDPLEX

We use the PARSESS ADJACENT.NODE statement to limit parallel sessions from the local node to a remote node based on capacity as agreed with the partner node. When updating our environment to use CDPLEX with multiple server regions, this parameter ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add more Ciphers for SSH to security.properties supported by JDK8

Please enable the following Ciphers: diffie-hellman-group14-sha256 diffie-hellman-group15-sha512 diffie-hellman-group16-sha512 rsa2048-sha256 AEAD_AES_128_GCM AEAD_AES_256_GCM hmac-sha11 hmac-sha2-512 Kind Regards
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

Expose Max Stops property at API request level instead of currently as static, system wide

This will improve performance when running findInventory and other sourcing APIs. A high value of Max Stops has a significant performance impact so having the ability to dynamically set this property at API request level will add a lot of value.
8 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 7 Future consideration

Cleanup prior version .jar files

The install/upgrade/patch/hotfix process should cleanup the prior version .jar files. We have been running since 2016 and every .jar file from upgrades are in the <install>/packages folders as well as other folders having years worth of back...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration

In advanced search option In InFlight please add feature for checking the InFlight entries giving the protocol profile ID.

In case if an existing connection to TP or customer is having multiple flows running using the same connections then with this suggested idea one can easily list entire flows in single search option. So this suggested option will be helpful in lis...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Not under consideration

Adding new indexes to database for enhancing performance.

The current DB settings seems to be insufficient for production environment. The performance dramatically enhanced after adding them during DB analysis made by our DBA team. I have raised TS001613070, and IBM Support agreed to add these indexes bu...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance 2 Functionality already exists