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Sterling File Gateway

The ability to force stop file transmissions in the Sterling File Gateway Admin UI

Similar to how you can redeliver or replay files, having the ability to force stop file transmissions in the Sterling File Gateway Admin UI would allow us to stop processes that have gone into a zombie state or are utilizing resources that are cau...
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Under review

SFG Redelivers files multiple times once Redeliver button is triggered from SFG UI.

Current Behavior: When the SFG operator/user wants to redeliver/replay one/multiple files and ticks on the checkbox before the file name (as shown in Fig1) then this/these files are put into queue for redeliver/replay and are picked-up by the “Fil...
9 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Support Dynamic/Managed Passwords for Oracle Database Accounts in IBM Sterling Secure File Gateway (SFG)

1. Problem Statement Currently, IBM SFG requires static passwords for Oracle database accounts used for configuration, runtime, and audit data storage. This poses security and compliance challenges in environments that require: · Regular password ...
8 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Future consideration

Support Verification Of Payee (VOP) in EBICS

The EU Commission Instant Payment Regulation specifies that IBAN name verification, which must be carried out before the order is approved, must be mandatory for both SEPA credit transfers and real-time credit transfers, with a few exceptions. All...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 4 Under review

EBICS: suppress NO_DATA_TO_DOWNLOAD log errors

Because EBICS transactions are always initiated by the client, customers will regularly poll the server using download orders. If there are no files in the user's download mailbox on the server then the EBICS server returns a NO_DATA_TO_DOWNLOAD e...
5 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Submitted

Allow granular File Gateway Operator permissions on file gateway UI, similar to the granularity that's possible on the B2Bi Dashboard.

The current SFG user groups do not allow granular permissions on the SFG UI, specifically replay, redeliver and menu options. Some manipulation is possible by editing the default groups, e.g. removing Partner maintenance from the File Gateway Oper...

"Forgot password" feature in myFG2.0 application

Today, if one of our partners who uses myFG2.0 loses their password, they must contact us to request a new password. With the large number of partners we have, password loss events have become frequent and the recovery method, via email or phone, ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 2 Future consideration

Adapt SBI to the removal of "clientAuth EKU" from Public TLS certificat

By February 2027, public certificate authorities (CAs) will stop supporting TLS client authentication due to Chrome’s new root program rules. Customers which have enabled "Require Client Authentication" in the C:D protocol Secure+ configuration. P...
5 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Future consideration

Sterling Filegateway - Global mailbox support for the MQ FTE protocol

We are looking for Global mailbox support for the MQ FTE protocol. This is primary protocol used on our side for Intranet transfers.
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Global Mailbox 1 Future consideration

SFG Resiliency

There are 2 RFEs related. This is the 2nd. The first is SFG-I-325 Customer was processing a high volume of transactions via filegateway when their environment experienced a network issue.Node 1 had its communication impacted with node 2. Communica...
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 3 Functionality already exists