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Administration & Configuration

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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.
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under 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 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

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
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 Under review

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
about 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Work on Multiple mailboxes using Myfg2.0

Hi Team, We have requirement to have one user access to multiple mailboxes. This has been configured for one of user - producer1. Using myfilegateway, we can list all the partner mailboxes and upload files. But on myfg2.0 , the partner name is not...
9 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Ability to manage multiple SSH Authorized user keys for a Partner

Currently we can only add/associate one SSH key to a user account from SFG UI. We need to go to SBI dashboard to associate multiple SSH keys to a user ID. This is a limitation within SFG UI but also adds a risk for user accounts which already have...
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 Planned for future release

Dashboard should give the possibility in the key creation to add ECDSA keys

Currently when creating SSH keys via the SBI dashboard ( Trading partner --> SSH --> Use Identity key --> create --> New user key ), only RSA and DSA keys encryption can be chosen. But in the real world, companies require much higher a...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 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...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

SFG integration with Mainframe SFTP server Co:Z

Hi Team, We have SFTP server on mainframe using product CO:Z. In order to send files from open system to mainframe we have to set DCB parameters. Along with we want to trigger processes on mainframe. ls /+mode=text ,lrecl=80,recfm=fb,space=cyl.5.5...
about 1 month ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Allow for a “System Use Notification” on login page.

Currently, in the 6.3 version of Control Center under Properties and the Welcome Message, a system notification message can be added. It would be nice to be able to something similar with Sterling File Gateway/B2B Integrator.
6 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 3 Planned for future release