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Allow Concurrent Access to FileAgent rules. if not lock the access until rules are applied

Integrated file Agent allows concurrent access for multiple users which mean rules or config can be overwritten. Enhancement request is to either Allow safe concurrent access where user wont trip on each other rules If that is not possible, at...
2 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Submitted

Enhance Integrated File Agent (IFA) for Windows and Linux allow flexibility as to where the process scripts are stored

Our team recently converted a Stand Alone File Agent to Integrated File Agent. The imported rules work fine. However, we discovered that when creating a new rule, the process script must be placed in the process directory. No other location is all...
8 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Submitted

Support Dynamic/Managed Passwords for Oracle Database Accounts in IBM Sterling Secure File Gateway (SFG)

1. Problem Statement Currently, IBM SFG requires static passwords for Oracle database accounts used for configuration, runtime, and audit data storage. This poses security and compliance challenges in environments that require: · Regular password ...
10 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Submitted

Features ask for Sterling Global Mailbox

MyFileGateway (HTTP) Security Control Limitation Causing Go-Live of Sterling Global Mailbox Folder Mapping post user creation (after onboarding the user, We want to map the folder at later point of time) Key Integration after The user is onboarded...
17 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Global Mailbox 0 Submitted

Add alt comm outbound parameter for Connect Direct Node configuration in B2Bi

In case of disaster recovery scenario, the connection should go to alternate IP address instead of Primary IP. In stand alone connect direct we have a parameter called alt.comm.outbound/outgoing.address for this purpose. Currently manual intervent...
19 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Support for Arbitrary User ID in IBM Connect:Direct Container Images

Modify the Connect:Direct container image to enable running it with a random UID. OpenShift Security Context Constraints (SCCs) assign random user IDs at runtime while maintaining group ID 0 (root group) for security purposes. This security model...
25 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

SFG Redelivers files multiple times once Redeliver button is triggered from SFG UI.

Current Behavior: When the SFG operator/user wants to redeliver/replay one/multiple files and ticks on the checkbox before the file name (as shown in Fig1) then this/these files are put into queue for redeliver/replay and are picked-up by the “Fil...
about 1 month ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Actions after a file is copied to a Azure Blob

As soon as the file is copied to connect direct and is persisted in a BLOB Object Store in Azure, customer needs to move/copy this file to another path/blob and/or delete this file directly from the cdp as a sysopt or some kind of task, but not us...
2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 Needs more information

Optimization to database queries for MailboxEvaluateAllRoutingRules

Applies to MSSQL (and likely other Database platforms) Performance of a core DB Query behind MailboxEvaluateAllAutomaticRules needs to be improved. Current queries as of 6.2 are expensive on Memory and TempDB usage and periodically run into perfor...
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 0 Submitted

Use a custom filename for the zip file when using the getMultipleDocumentGet REST API

The sfgapis getMultipleDocumentGet is to bundle one or more documents from B2B into a zip file and receive this zip as response. http://<Install_Host>:<Liberty_port>/sfgapis/ Using the getMultipleDocumentGet sfgapi there's no option to...
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 1 Submitted