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Log Standards

Some customers has the need to read the logs using some realtime observability tools, such as Prometheus, Splunk. There is some difficulties on integrating those actual logs of Sterling Control Center with the new standards. This request has the g...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Include native Multi-Factor Authentication against a variety of commercial MFA vendors

There are growing needs for integration with Single Sign-On and Multi-Factor Authentication. IBM File Gateway as well as IBM Sterling Secure Proxy need to be updated to natively support direct communication with a variety of SSO/MFA solutions with...
about 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Not under consideration

Add support for RSA-OAEP Encryption algorithms to Sterling Integrator & File Gateway

Clients who exchange files with external partners may need RSA-OAEP encryption algorithms. Currently this is supported as a web service but not in the core functionality of the product. Lack of this is preventing more secure transfers when using S...
5 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 3 Not under consideration

ICC New datetime field - Custom API

The bank is trying to leverage the ICC SLC process to track whether a file has met its SLC.We are having applications (ie. SFG components and other custom applications) raising MQ events with time stamp to start and end SLC of a file.We then wrote...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Restrict user permission (Read/Write/Download etc) in SFG MyFiles for Sterling File Partners

This would help ensure clients have proper user permissions (Read, Write, Download etc) in SFG MyFile 2.0. This gives a level of security on that account if that account should only download files or read files.
10 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Not under consideration

Ad Hoc Report Functionality

In version 6.1.3 and earlier when a report is run, the user has the option to keep/download in different versions such as pdf, xls, csv, etc and to email the report. However, in version 6.2, this ad hoc functionality has been removed. While an ad ...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Add System Business Process from SBI to the BP list in Control Center

The idea is to be able to choose from the drop-down list of BPs to monitor, the processes of the Sterling B2B Integrator system so that ICC is the tool used for this purpose and not have different systems that also work differently with the Alerts...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Allow PGP integration to remote key/secret vault - currently SFG only allows local installation

Currently within our Sterling File Gateway installation we use Symantec PGP Command Line to encrypt/decrypt files between a few of our trading partners. The PGP server installation is running locally on the same application servers which are runni...
6 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Not under consideration

DB2 HADR (ACR) support for ICC and underlying COGNOS

DB2 Clustering (HADR) is well accepted in the DB2 community. SFG has recently added support for the ACR (Automatic Client Reroute) functionality to take advantage of DB2 clusters perss this link:SFG_with_ACR SCC support for DB2 clusters is also n...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration

Sterling Control Center does not show the process number of a Sterling Integrator business process

Sterling Control Center does not display the Connect:Direct process numbers from a Sterling Integrator business process going through the CDSA. This is because the process number is actually not passed from Sterling Integrator to Control Center. T...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Not under consideration