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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...
25 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Connect:Direct for Zos Suports Object Storage

Connect:Direct for Zos does not support send/receiving files from/to Object Storages. Customers are urging that functionality for AWS and Azure.
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 5 Needs more information

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...
12 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Add support in SEAS for configuring the number of failed password attempts before account lockout.

Currently, SEAS does not provide an option to set or customize the number of failed password attempts before locking an account. This limitation prevents administrators from enforcing organization-specific security policies.The requested enhanceme...
3 months ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 2 Needs more information

view partner details without having edit access

Our support team often need to view SFG partner details (profile/account/protocol/community membership) to troubleshoot issues, however we want it to be view-only access. We currently cant provide access to view that information without adding a u...
8 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Add Support for TSS Protected IDs in BATCH

CDZ supports RACF and ACF2 when it comes to PROTECTED IDs, but does not support TSS. Please extend this support to TSS, as TSS implemented PROTECTED in a similar manner to RACF.
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Audit Trail for in app changes

We are looking for a way to be able to log anytime any changes are made ANYWHERE in SEAS with an entry showing what the previous setting was vs the new setting and who made the change. Currently no matter what amout of debug logging is turned on t...
over 2 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 2 Planned for future release

Enable SEAS to directly consume SAML/OIDC passed roles.

Enhancement request for the SEAS (STERLING External Authentication Server) service. Request SEAS have the ability to consume roles or entitlements through federation service, all roles are passed through the federated service from a role that is s...
over 1 year ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 0 Submitted

Replacing LDAP with ISVG

In our company we are replacing LDAP with other security, for IBM Sterling also we need to replace LDAP with ISVG, I raised case for this and told ISVG is not tested with IBM Sterling SEAS product, As we need to replace LDAP with ISGV, Could you p...

SFG integration with Mainframe SFTP server Co:Z

Hi Team, We have SFTP server on mainframe using product CO:Z. In order to send files from open system to mainframe we have to set DCB parameters. Along with we want to trigger processes on mainframe. ls /+mode=text ,lrecl=80,recfm=fb,space=cyl.5.5...
8 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration