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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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Enable customizable Notification messages

We often get request from users to get notified when certain message is received via EDI. Or, when certain message is being delivered to the partner (e.g. for SLA measurements for Supplier scorecard etc). So, similar to Search in Inflight, we woul...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 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...
5 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Submitted

Enable smart card login in myfilegateway

Since many companies use smart card login for security reasons, it was a good idea allow partners to login to myfilegateway using these method
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / 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...
6 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.
6 months ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer SaaS 0 Submitted

OAGIS 10.0 is not available in map editor, only 9.0 is available

Customers with Oracle applications and other XML-based applications are using OAGIS 10.0 versions which are not available in Sterling standard/maps. We tried to load the OAGIS 10.0 schemas into the map editor and map editor crashed due to the size...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 0 Submitted

Multiple Host Key availability for partners.

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 than RSA (ECDSA) while other vendors d...
6 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Submitted

Be able to control GS Control number format for ANSI X12 data

The WebMethods cloud product formats the GS level control number to be padded with leading 0s. This field is a variable length field and by the standard, should be sent without the leading 0s. As of today, we have to manually add a step in the flo...
3 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

Standardized Usable Data Export and Re-import Feature for Tenant Decommissioning, M&A, and Data Migration Scenarios

This feature aims to provide a standardized process for exporting tenant data in usable, structured formats (e.g., CSV, JSON, database dump), which can also be re-imported into existing tenants if needed. The current approach often results in unus...
3 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

be able to create a single new user through REST API

Make it possible to add a new user in the User Store using Rest API.
6 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 0 Submitted