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My subscriptions: webMethods Managed File Transfer

Enable "Service Principal" Authentication to Azure Blob Storage

Currently MFT only supports SAS, API Key and Basic Auth authentication to Azure Blob Storage using the Azure Blob Connector. I would like to add another authentication type "Service Principal" so that MFT can transfer files to Azure Blobs that onl...
10 months ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer Planned for future release

Active Transfer SFTP Pre-Hooks Support

Enhancement in Active Transfer Server to support SFTP GET and PUT pre-hooks. This will enable the users to perform preparatory actions such as file validation, logging or other security checks, before the file transfer occurs. Pre-hooks to be able...
over 1 year ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer

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...
over 1 year ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer Planned for future release

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...
over 1 year ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer Planned for future release

Schedulers - Filtering by date and time

In case it is required to create a shortage in the system, a filtering functionality (from date/time, to date/time) will be very useful allowing you to identify the schedulers impacted on the period of time defined.
over 1 year ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer Future consideration

Request additional functionality regarding algorithm selection.

During PoC, There was a customer requirement that customers wanted to choose and use the default cryptographic algorithm. In particular, customers want to use other algorithms that have advantages in file transfer speed. It seems necessary for the...
6 months ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer / On-Prem Under review

More robust file renaming options

Being able to rename files based on patterns from the file name would be great for recovery purposes. We have an event that needs to move files with the following names: umms_atlas_extract_4687_umms_appointments_2025-10-14-06-10-15.txtumms_atlas_e...
6 months ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer / On-Prem Future consideration

Create admin accounts from the MFT interface

MFT admins don't need admin access to IS.
8 months ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer / On-Prem Under review

Ability to delete files after they have been zipped in a folder

Yes I know I can add another step, but should be an option when zipping files
8 months ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer Functionality already exists

Required files for event

If there is a transfers that requires 4 files to be sent it would be helpful to have that in a single step\action. Yes I can create multiple Find actions to find each file, but managing an event that sends 34 files is not fun. We can get around it...
8 months ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer Future consideration