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Sterling File Gateway

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Avoid creating 0 byte file at destination when mail box document is not present in SFG while reference in database is available

Avoid creating 0 byte file at destination when mail box document is not present in SFG while reference in database is available Case # TS017160795
17 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Mapping & Translation 1 Under review

Do not route .part or .lock

We have had a situation where transfers were interrupted and the source kept connecting and startting a transfer and then disconnecting (poorly written in Azure) and it cause ALOT (30 plus) .partial and .lock files. And since this upload directory...
24 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Submitted

Select Adapter group with RESTApi for AS2 on SFG Cluster

Hi When SFG is in cluster mode, we use the sterling interface to edit the AS2 partner configuration and select an adapter group instead of an individual adapter to load balance the connection and avoid failures. We wanted to use the RESTAPI to per...
about 1 month ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

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.
about 1 month ago in Sterling File Gateway / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Planned for future release

myfilegateway GUI popup messages

We are using IBM MyFileGateway v1.0 solution for HTTPs file transfer. Our customers are using this portal for upload/download files over HTTPs. Our Internal Business Team raised serious concerns over UI observations/issues which are easily noticea...
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 3 Functionality already exists

SFG Resiliency

There are 2 RFEs related. This is the 2nd. The first is SFG-I-325 Customer was processing a high volume of transactions via filegateway when their environment experienced a network issue.Node 1 had its communication impacted with node 2. Communica...
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 3 Functionality already exists

SFG Resiliency

There are 2 RFEs related. This is the 1st. The second is SFG-I-326 Customer was processing a high volume of transactions via filegateway when their environment experienced a network issue.Node 1 had its communication impacted with node 2. Communic...
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 3 Functionality already exists

Sterling filegateway does not support Windows Authentication

Sterling filegateway does not support Windows Authentication, currently it just supports SQL authtentication, this is causing issues with keeping up to current security standards.
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 Needs more information

Download/upload files via using https link?

We have many non-technical vendors, and we need the functionality to provide them with the link to upload/download files.
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 4 Needs more information

Support Microsoft Entra ID since we are replacing the use of LDAP

We are moving away as an organization from using LDAP and replacing it with Microsoft Entra ID. Please build in support for that as an additional method of user authentication outside of SFG and B2Bi
6 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Under review