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Sterling File Gateway

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Add the ability to declare a global file size upload limit in SFG

Add the ability to declare a global file size upload limit in SFG. The limit is a property. The limit applies to a single file transmission. The limit is available to all protocols (SSHFTP, Myfilegateway, Connect Direct, FTP, HTTP, AS2, Swift, etc...
about 4 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Future consideration

Extend myFileGateway/SFG such that users can be assigned to multiple organizations where that user can upload/download files within those organizations and have visibility to file movements within that organization

For security, administration, and governance, a user (external or internal) should be able to use a single LDAP account to manage multiple organizations in myFileGateway/SFG, where that LDAP user can upload/download files within those organization...
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 1 Future consideration

Extend Advanced Permission Management feature to SFG

Similar to the article below, however extend this feature for SFG. https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/tanvi-kakodkar1/2020/01/20/advanced-permission-management
10 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

OOTB Antivirus scan using ICAP

When using ICAP integration on SSP there are a lot of files with the .unscanned renaming due to the volume of the files or any other of the highly possible scenarios in which the file is sent to the backend without being scanned. Due to the type o...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Future consideration

Ability to edit/change the SFG partner community

Currently there is no way to edit or change the SFG partner community once it is created within a community. It will be really helpful if there is an option to make that change from within the SFG UI.
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

SIEM Integration with IBM Sterling Filegateway

SIEM is used to collect, aggregate, and analyze data from sterling applications, and users in real-time can detect issues whenever required, It seems sterling filegatway is not supported to integrate SIEM. we have raised PMR support ticket with IB...
6 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

IdAM integration with either OKTA/ Compact identity provider

Since the customer is from the Banking and Financial sector, IdAM is expected to manage the relationship between an entity and the resources to which access is required. We have raised a PMR ticket (TS012827600) stating that we do not have any doc...
6 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

SFG with PGP setup page with always trust option

My customer(KBANK Thailand) would like to use SFG with PGP and do not want to accept always trust when the customer would like to onboard the new their clients. My customer do not want to accept always trust by manual way. So need IBM File Gateway...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Rest API: Allow Redeliver by route_key (deliveryKey)

I want to use the Sterling B2B Rest API to Redeliver a single delivery from a Broadcast route as can be done from Filegateway as seen in support article: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/298739 In the B2B Rest API explore there is the uri /B...
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 4 Future consideration

Looking to have the "Both" authentication option added to Partner creation/edit in File Gateway.

Currently when we have an external customer connect to us using sftp our sftp authentication method requires that someone go into B2Bi User Accounts and select the "Both" option for authentication type. This requires admin access which we would pr...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration