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Sterling File Gateway

In BTF Service Configuration, only ZIP is supported as the Container Type for BTU orders

Issue: Specific to container files according to requirements container type can be SVC/XML/ZIP. When we check on the BTF service configuration we can only see blank/ZIP given for BTU/BTD orders Expected behavior : Even if the dropdown does not con...
2 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards Submitted

Improvement in SFG partner API

Current APIs available for SFG partner operations like read, update, create and delete a SFG partner take a lot of processing time if the application instance has several thousand SFG partners. It is also acknowledged by IBM support that performan...
3 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs Submitted

MFA support for SFG via OpenID connect or SAML

Currently SFG does not support MFA. We would like to have MFA support via OpenID connect or SAML due to security reasons in our company. Suggested workaround via Secured Jump Host is not compliant to our internal regulations.
2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security Submitted

JWT Token based authentication for MQ

Requesting the ability for Global Mailbox event rule adapter to authenticate to MQ using Token based authentication (JWT).
about 1 month ago in Sterling File Gateway / Global Mailbox Submitted

MQ connection for event rule adapter to have persistent connection for put operation.

In Sterling B2B Integrator with Global Mailbox solution, Global Mailbox(GM) event rule adapter configured in Sterling Integrator makes a persistent connection with MQ to get an event, however, it makes an individual separate connections to MQ to P...
about 1 month ago in Sterling File Gateway / Global Mailbox Submitted

EBICS: suppress NO_DATA_TO_DOWNLOAD log errors

Because EBICS transactions are always initiated by the client, customers will regularly poll the server using download orders. If there are no files in the user's download mailbox on the server then the EBICS server returns a NO_DATA_TO_DOWNLOAD e...
18 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability Submitted

Use a custom filename for the zip file when using the getMultipleDocumentGet REST API

The sfgapis getMultipleDocumentGet is to bundle one or more documents from B2B into a zip file and receive this zip as response. http://<Install_Host>:<Liberty_port>/sfgapis/ Using the getMultipleDocumentGet sfgapi there's no option to...
6 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs Submitted

Support Dynamic/Managed Passwords for Oracle Database Accounts in IBM Sterling Secure File Gateway (SFG)

1. Problem Statement Currently, IBM SFG requires static passwords for Oracle database accounts used for configuration, runtime, and audit data storage. This poses security and compliance challenges in environments that require: · Regular password ...
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security Submitted

SFG Redelivers files multiple times once Redeliver button is triggered from SFG UI.

Current Behavior: When the SFG operator/user wants to redeliver/replay one/multiple files and ticks on the checkbox before the file name (as shown in Fig1) then this/these files are put into queue for redeliver/replay and are picked-up by the “Fil...
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration Submitted

Support multiple file types for the same order type

In the German flavour of EBICS v2.x the file types are implied as documented in the EBICS addendum and German (and other) market documents. Mostly each order type corresponds to a single file type but there are cases where the same order type can ...
2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards Submitted