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webMethods Managed File Transfer

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...
12 months ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer / On-Prem 0 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...
12 months ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer / On-Prem 0 Future consideration

"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...
about 2 years ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer 0 Planned for future release

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...
about 2 years ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer 0 Future consideration

Subscription for New MFT Fix Release Notifications

Requesting the ability to subscribe to email notifications when new MFT fixes are released. This feature would help ensure timely awareness of updates and reduce the need for manual monitoring. My customer, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAS CO was receiving...
6 months ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer / On-Prem 0 Under review

Create admin accounts from the MFT interface

MFT admins don't need admin access to IS.
about 1 year ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer / On-Prem 0 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
about 1 year ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer 3 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...
about 1 year ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer 0 Future consideration

Schedules that run biweekly, or similar cadences

We can set this currently with an Interval, but the schedule drifts. Time changes (daylight savings time), and leap years also breaks the schedules.
about 1 year ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer 2 Functionality already exists

Push file to JMS topic

Today Active Transfer is limited to only be able to push files to Universal Messaging, which means to push to a non-UM message broker will require an IS service to be coded and thus consume an entitlement.This should also allow the mapping of JMS ...
7 months ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer / On-Prem 0 Under review