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SFG File Size column in Activity

When looking at 'Routes' > 'Activity', one can right-click the column headings and add the 'Size'. However, there is no way to save this setting and it disappears once you log off and log back in. I opened Case TS015174429 and they responded wi...
10 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Support for ORacle 23c

A we are upgrading to Oracle 23c we use it for SFG and would like to make sure there is support for this release of Oracle DB.
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Planned for future release

Lot's of remote profiles causing the UI page to crash on SFG Consumer - SFTP profile selection page

Lot's of remote profiles causing the UI page to crash on SFG Consumer - SFTP profile selection page, should have a property to control the no.of profiles displayed on the sftp profile selection page.. IBM Case# TS009761621
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Onboarding 0 Planned for future release

More algorithms support for diffie-hellman

Understand that current supported SSH Key Exchange Algorithms:diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 However, is it possible to support more diffie-hellman algorithm? Example, diffie-hellman-gro...
over 6 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Planned for future release

Change MQ adapter password max from 20 to 42+ characters.

MQ adapter in B2BI/SFG is limited to a 20 character password. IBM MQ SaaS offering in IBM Cloud requires a 42 character password minimum. Can the allowed password length be increased so B2BI/SFG MQ adapter will work on IBM Cloud MQ Service?
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Planned for future release

PGP UnPackage service to identify if the file was encrypted or signed only

When a signed file is process in Filegateway and with PGP preference set (decryption,sign verification On )PGP UnPackage service does not provide error to state that the file was only signed and not able to decrypt. The PGP UnPackage service compl...
over 6 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

MAC Algorithm Updates

We have a vendor that is requiring that we use "hmac-sha2-512" for our SFTP connection to them. I don't see that as an option per the documentation:The MAC the client prefers to use for stream encryption. Required. Valid values are:hmac-sha1hmac-m...
over 6 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Planned for future release