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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...
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 3 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.
9 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 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

Logging is needed WHO and WHEN downloaded a file from Sterling Dashboard or FileGateway

When debuging file flows it is useful to see how the file looked before the transformation and how it looks after transformations. Due to compliance reasons on production systems it is necessary to see WHO and WHEN downloaded the file and viewed i...
over 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Not under consideration

Need a Deployment specific role in Self Service Tool to manager deployments in Production.

We need a role in Self Service that is only for People who will do deployment in Production. Currently we only have 4 types of Role in prod Developer (Production), Developer (Non-Production), Stakeholder and Administrator. There is no specific seg...
over 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 1 Not under consideration

Ability to start individual App Server

There are situation, very often, that requires us to restart API servers, Call center servers, specific agent, specific integ server. We do not have that ability in the OMoC. Like we can pull call center logs, but we cannot restart just call cente...
almost 2 years ago in Self Service Tool 3 Not under consideration

Ability to display Error Messages while executing SQL queries in DB Query Client

The Database Query Client in OMoC does not display the error message to include the reason for the query execution to fail. IT gives a generic message stating - "Exception while executing query. Please check the query syntax/server logs." or "SQL ...
over 6 years ago in Self Service Tool 2 Not under consideration

Enable Stop Deployment option

There are occasions where we accidentally click on deploy button and there is no way we can stop the deployment. Can the product atleast ask for a confirmation before initiating the process? or lets have a stop deployment option in the lower envir...
about 2 years ago in Self Service Tool 3 Not under consideration

Support STARTTLS SMTP

Our system implemented the use of STARTTLS SMTP and we cannot send emails from SFG
about 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Not under consideration