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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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Make Gentran compatible with Windows 11.

Most companies are moving toward Windows 11 and Gentran is currently not supporting this version.
about 1 month ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Alert notification needed whenever errors occur in BP FileGatewayMailboxRoute

Alert notification needed whenever errors occur in BP FileGatewayMailboxRoute
about 1 month ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 0 Submitted

To log unsuccessful user logins to Gentran application into Audit Log

Currently, Gentran does not log the unsuccessful user login attempts into the application Audit Log (ProcAuditLog_tb). Our security team requires us to monitor this activity and respond to this as part of our security process. Without this logging...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Security 0 Submitted

Enable SEAS to directly consume SAML/OIDC passed roles.

Enhancement request for the SEAS (STERLING External Authentication Server) service. Request SEAS have the ability to consume roles or entitlements through federation service, all roles are passed through the federated service from a role that is s...
6 months ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 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

Being able to send large files up to 1 TB files

Would like the ability to send larges files up to 1TB in sizes. Currently ssp-engine has a limit in its ICAP configuration to 10 GB. This is too small for the use cases that my company will handling.
2 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 0 Submitted

Add AS4 Protocol to Partner Community Manager

With planned addition of AS4 to the core Sterling B2b Integrator, we request that the Partner Community Manager be updated to add AS4 as a protocol in the application/partner configurations. Partner/Application screens should allow for AS4 partner...

Add back ability to configure custom SSL settings per netmap remote node

It appears version 6.2 removes the ability to custom configure SSL settings per each remote node in the netmap and forces you to select a pre-configured SSL profile. We would like to have the option to custom configure SSL settings per each remote...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

"Read-only" option in the actions menu of Active Transfer for user groups

It would be interesting for our business model to have a "read-only" option in the actions menu of Active Transfer for user groups. This way, they can see what is in the menu but cannot make any changes. There are "read-only" options in various pa...
5 months ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

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