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PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...
PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...

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PIV Card Support for Sterling MFT/B2B Products

PIV was initially introduced by HSPD-12 (Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12), in August of 2004. However, it is just now that agencies are being mandated to comply with this directive. The first required delivery date that we know of for ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 1 Future consideration

Display who the current approver is on a change request instead of only showing the final approver

When you are reviewing the workflow and seeing where change requests are awaiting review/approval, this feature will allow you to easily be able to see who the current approver is who is. This way, when reports are pulled we know where the request...
5 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 3 Future consideration

Add the ability to declare a global file size upload limit in SFG

Add the ability to declare a global file size upload limit in SFG. The limit is a property. The limit applies to a single file transmission. The limit is available to all protocols (SSHFTP, Myfilegateway, Connect Direct, FTP, HTTP, AS2, Swift, etc...
over 4 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Future consideration

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
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Support for Active Directory pooling or putting Domain Controller behind a VIP

We would benefit using a VIP to hit Domain Controllers in one or multiple data centers or using pooling of Domain Controllers

Looking to have the "Both" authentication option added to Partner creation/edit in File Gateway.

Currently when we have an external customer connect to us using sftp our sftp authentication method requires that someone go into B2Bi User Accounts and select the "Both" option for authentication type. This requires admin access which we would pr...
over 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

Provide mechanism to persist EBICS COF order descriptions

Currently the descriptions for EBICS order types created using the Custom Order Framework must be manually added into the relevant ebics_{language].properties file in the lang sub-folder. These properties cannot be defined in customer_overrides e....
5 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 1 Future consideration

sftp client list service should have configurable parameter to list the number of files.

In certain customer sites, The file count that need to be picked up using sftp client services range from 1 to 100,000 from partner's sftp server. When we use the sftp client list service to list the files (when the file count is at max range) the...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Future consideration

"Basic Authentication" on myfilegateway 2.0 not working

On myfilegateway 2.0, the trouble we get is that the authentication failed if the basic authentication is activated (option "User authentication Required").During the authentication, the browser request credentials but there are no taken into acco...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Control Center Director -- Additional Node Upgrade Selection Options

Looking for additional/more robust functionality for additional scoping options when performing CDW and CDU upgrades through CCD. Something like the import a server list .csv , or to be able to create/populate a dynamic large group or list. Select...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Future consideration