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Adding "Dictionary password checker" for password

Prevent clients from using common word for password.. e.g. password
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 1 Not under consideration

We need a MEMO not case sensitive

see attached file
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Usability 0 Not under consideration

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.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Future 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

MyFileGateway 2.0 (enable same capabilities / customization / Usability similar to 1.0)

There currently more customization in 1.0 vs 2.0 in terms of permissions and default views (FileActivity/downloads/uploads). The enhancements of multifile download and download as Zip are what our users wanted, but not with loss of certain functio...
over 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Future consideration

Purging notification records at run-time

With current Windows Connect:Express versions, when notifications are enabled, notification records are added at run-time in the local database, even when they are fully processed (notifications messages sent), and they remain there, possibly very...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

CX Direct access to tapes

CONNECT:EXPRESS FOR Z/OS could access directly tapes : read tape to transmit the file or write on tape the file received.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Usability 0 Not under consideration

CX SYSTCP Partial generic

In the SYSTCP the TCP/IP address can only be unique or '*'. It can't be générique like 172.016.063.* So we have too much entries.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Security 0 Not under consideration

myfilegateway download tab

When a producer uploads a file to a mailbox that has an associated routing channel, once the routing is complete the file shows up in the file listing in the producers download tab in myfilegateway. This has caused some concern for some of my prod...
about 4 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Future consideration