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Sterling File Gateway

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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.
about 2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Enable end users to replay their own files WITHOUT giving them any other administrative permissions.

End users often need to have files replayed due to various intermittent SFG error conditions. Allowing these users to replay their own files saves them time and saves SFG administrators the effort required to replay these files
over 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 6 Not under consideration

myFG2.0 deployment on multiple HTTP Server Adapter

myfilegateway1.0 can be hosted on different http server adapters and that helps to split the traffic and achieve high availability but the same is not possible with mfg2.0, updated version of myfg2.0 should have same flexibility as old version of ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Under review

MyFileGateway LDAP Support

Currently we have multiple MyFileGateway users that we create, delete and update on a regular basis when new customers join the organisation. The accounts that access MyFileGateway are manually created and there is a large operational overhead on ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 6 Not under consideration

Work with Qualys to suppress CVE-2023-50164 false positive scan for SFG and B2BIi

Vulnerability Software Qualys are identifying IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and IBM Sterling B2B File Gateway impacted by CVE-2023-50164. IBM sterling product team confirmed the products are not impacted but scan results are still showing up. relate...

Alert notification needed whenever errors occur in BP FileGatewayMailboxRoute

Alert notification needed whenever errors occur in BP FileGatewayMailboxRoute
2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 0 Submitted

Sterling Filegateway - Disable the Known host key validations for Outbound sftp connections ( StrictHostKeyChecking=no )

Hello - Checking, for the SFG outbound sftp client connections - if the known host key validations will be turned-off or make them dynamically added. this way we can get rid off the BP's that will fail in the steps for each occurrence when a partn...
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 0 Future consideration

File transfer to AWS s3 via perimeter server

On the basis of security concerns Sterling filegateway comes with Perimeter server but when we connect to AWS s3 from SFG there is no option to route file via perimeter server. So to over come this we are raising this idea that when we transfer fi...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

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.
10 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Allow System Certificates to work the same as CA Certificate groups

Currently when we generate a new System Certificate and want to install it to our HTTP Server Adapters, we need to take our environment down and schedule/coordinate the change of the certificates with all our AS2 customers. Not an easy task given ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 8 Future consideration