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Remove left hand check box from IBM activity screen to prevent selecting all records and accidentally performing a resend of all files.

This would prevent a customer from mistakenly resending all records on the system if they are not careful.
about 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Future consideration

Allow users to reload documents with a status "available" that have not been picked up in more than 24 hours.

This will provide users the ability to pick up documents that have exhausted the number retries allowed. Today, the only way to fix is by opening a ticket with support to mark the documents as "picked up" so that the user can then reload them to t...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 1 Not under consideration

myFileGateway activity search screen options are meaningless for external partenrs

'Producer', 'Consumer', 'Protocol' and 'Status' does not make much sense to external partenrs. They are too technical or better suitable only for FG admins. For example: 'Protocol' selection. Why this option is given to partner? He always logs t...
about 6 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Not under consideration

File Retention in Mailbox Post File Download in MyFileGateway 2.0

In the current state, MyFileGateway 2.0 does not allow for a file to remain in the mailbox post download. Looking for an option for files to not be invalidated/archived and remain in the mailbox for a pre-specified amount of days.
about 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Future consideration

Support SM2 Public Key Algorithm

SM2 is a four-part standard for public key algorithms specified by China. This enhancement is to support the file encryption and decryption by SM2 and perform file exchange with China.
about 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Not under consideration

Requesting sub-sequence number capture to track line item or sub-level groups if required.

Requesting sub-sequence number capture to track line item or sub-level groups if required. Currently we have sequence number generation for every map run. But we encounter request from client to assign sequence number for every line item and updat...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 1 Not under consideration

Being able to pull the inbox and outbox view with the filename

We have had several customers ask for the option of the filename being able to be reported and downloaded in the excel file. Customer's cross check IBM VAN with their internal system with filenames.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 1 Functionality already exists

Sterling Filegateway UI - to add an extra option "Both" for Authentication Type in User Account in Partner creation

In Sterling B2Bi UI, while User account creation we are having options Local, External and Both for Authentication Type. In Sterling B2Bi UI, if we opt option "Both" for external partners with whom we do password based authentication, and if we do...
over 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 0 Future consideration

Support transactional JSON in a similar manner to XML within Document Extract Service/X12 Envelope Service (and EDIFACT likely too)

We are a large user of Sterling B2Bi both BPs and Enveloping and historically we also have been for mapping as well. That said we have a lot of demand with the movement in the development space and even a few external facing areas toward JSON, as ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

System Certificate Name Update - Global Update to Adapters/CD Nodes

When editing a System Certificate under B2B console > Trading Partner > Digital Certificate > System > (Your System Cert) > "Edit Name or Usage of existing Certificate"... You aren't able to make that name change globally. So your C...
over 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration