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Sterling File Gateway

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myFG2.0 deployment on multiple HTTP Server Adapter

myfilegateway1.0 can be hosted on different http server adapters and that helps to split the traffic and achieve high availability but the same is not possible with mfg2.0, updated version of myfg2.0 should have same flexibility as old version of ...

Support to update trading partner (partner profile) data or ask to remove their data or configuration in SFG

Based a regulations like GDPR and LGPD customer needs do provide to their trading partners the option to update the trading partner profile thru myFG 2.0 or even an option to remove or download their data.
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Under review

Support STARTTLS SMTP

Our system implemented the use of STARTTLS SMTP and we cannot send emails from SFG
about 1 month ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Submitted

Sterling Filegateway - Disable the Known host key validations for Outbound sftp connections ( StrictHostKeyChecking=no )

Hello - Checking, for the SFG outbound sftp client connections - if the known host key validations will be turned-off or make them dynamically added. this way we can get rid off the BP's that will fail in the steps for each occurrence when a partn...
11 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 0 Future consideration

Enable end users to replay their own files WITHOUT giving them any other administrative permissions.

End users often need to have files replayed due to various intermittent SFG error conditions. Allowing these users to replay their own files saves them time and saves SFG administrators the effort required to replay these files
about 4 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 6 Not under consideration

SFG API service to update Known Host Key

The current infrastructure in our org has close to 50k SFTP remote profiles configured and for almost 30% of them the known host key has to be renewed every 3-6 months or so. The current API services do not allow updates to be made to a known host...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 0 Future 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...
12 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Not under consideration

Request enhancement to failover characteristic for B2B Integrator/SFG

We would like to request an enhancement of the failover characteristic of the product. During functional testing we have observed delays of up to an hour in re-establishing normal operations of the UI and scheduler in the surviving nodes. The test...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 1 Planned for future release

A set of SQL queries tied to the Activity Snapshot tool is creating an overhead on the database and could be effectively optimised.

We have an issue with the overhead of a specific set of SQLs in SFG 6.1.1.1. IBM confirmed that these queries have been looked at for version 6.1.1.3 but as we have no details of the changes, we’d like to create an Idea. These are the SQLs seen ru...
about 2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 0 Submitted

Support Open API 3.0 specifications in the Sterling B2B Integrator and Sterling File Gateway APIs

My customer would like to have in our product support for Open API 3.0, because most developers are no longer using OpenAPI 2.0 and want to move to OpenAPI 3.0.
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration