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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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MFT Zero Trust Architecture Support

To achieve zero trust architecture in MFT scenarios, customer wants JWT support for authentication & authorization where scope needs to be handled outside of MFT solution and should be dynamic where a scope for a user/connection changes, MFT s...
2 months ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

We need to a native support of OpenSSL encryption as we have for PGP

Banks needs different ways to enrypt files at rest, and they need native support from the sterling solution instead of using CLI adaprter or other mehods
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

Add Solace to the list of supported vendors for JMS 1.1

Right now Solace is not listed under the supported vendors and configurations for JMS 1.1: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/b2b-integrator/6.2.0?topic=adapters-supported-vendors-configurations-jms-11

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

PCM allows conflicting setups that override each other with no warning

PCM allows conflicting setups that override each other with no warning For example on the typing side users can have 2 setups that both have the same sender, reciever, document type and when cm_coreprocess gets back the results from the typing ser...
3 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 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

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

Support Encrypted ZIP Files

We got a request to extract the files from an encrypted ZIP file and provide them to a shared volume. Today Active Transfer does not support decryption during ZIP extraction. It would also be useful if there is an option to specify an encryption p...
about 1 month ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

Show date max sessions reached and allow reset

Provide mechanisms to show the date that the high watermark session count for a node was last reached under License Management or to reset the high watermark to be calculated from a set date when displaying it in License Management.
about 1 month ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Submitted