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Office 365 Message Encryption/Decryption

Request is for Microsoft Office Message Encryption/Decryption functionality for SFG. This will be required where 3rd party Producers/Consumers are using OME as their preferred encryption tool.
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 1 Not under consideration

Add native 2 Factor Authentication (2FA/MFA) for external MyFileGateway users

Banking security standards require that external customer access to banking systems require Multi-Factor Authentication. While IBM offer SEAS, and the ability to build customised connectivity to external 2FA providers, this introduces risk whene...
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Functionality already exists

AWS S3 access-key and Secret-key Import/deployment option.

Option to deploy/import access-key/secret-key details into our product table. So that we can fetch those values while creating AWSS3custom protocol in IBM Sterling File gateway. This way we can able fetch Bucketname, access-key/secret-key values e...
over 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway 1 Future 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.
10 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

OOTB Antivirus scan using ICAP

When using ICAP integration on SSP there are a lot of files with the .unscanned renaming due to the volume of the files or any other of the highly possible scenarios in which the file is sent to the backend without being scanned. Due to the type o...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Future consideration

Multi Factor Authentication with Email or App Verification for HTTPS Users (MyFileGateway)

We have an urgent business/security requirement for a Multi-Factor authentication and Dual Authentication from trading partners. Our current systems runs on V 6.0.0.2 SFG Version. Can SFG V6 and above support 'Dual Authentication' and 'MFA' ? Dual...
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Functionality already exists

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
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

MyFilegateway GUI

As per the business requirement we would like to have few customizations required on myFilegateway GUI like Mouse Hover Text, Column Name Change etc..,. Here attaching those requirements in a word document for your reference
7 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Under review

Change MQ adapter password max from 20 to 42+ characters.

MQ adapter in B2BI/SFG is limited to a 20 character password. IBM MQ SaaS offering in IBM Cloud requires a 42 character password minimum. Can the allowed password length be increased so B2BI/SFG MQ adapter will work on IBM Cloud MQ Service?
7 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Planned for future release

Extend myFileGateway/SFG such that users can be assigned to multiple organizations where that user can upload/download files within those organizations and have visibility to file movements within that organization

For security, administration, and governance, a user (external or internal) should be able to use a single LDAP account to manage multiple organizations in myFileGateway/SFG, where that LDAP user can upload/download files within those organization...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 1 Future consideration