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Sterling File Gateway

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Restrict user permission (Read/Write/Download etc) in SFG MyFiles for Sterling File Partners

This would help ensure clients have proper user permissions (Read, Write, Download etc) in SFG MyFile 2.0. This gives a level of security on that account if that account should only download files or read files.
5 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Needs more information

SFG API service to update Known Host Key

The current infrastructure in our org has close to 50k SFTP remote profiles configured and for almost 30% of them the known host key has to be renewed every 3-6 months or so. The current API services do not allow updates to be made to a known host...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 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

We are looking to capture KPI metrics from SFG in terms of max/min file size, cpu/memory usage

We are generating key monthly usage metrics from SFG. Here are some sample metrics.... Max/min file size Max/Min/Avg CPU Max/Avg memory Usage by protocol
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future 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 ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 10 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.
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Include native Multi-Factor Authentication against a variety of commercial MFA vendors

There are growing needs for integration with Single Sign-On and Multi-Factor Authentication. IBM File Gateway as well as IBM Sterling Secure Proxy need to be updated to natively support direct communication with a variety of SSO/MFA solutions with...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Not under consideration

SFG File Size column in Activity

When looking at 'Routes' > 'Activity', one can right-click the column headings and add the 'Size'. However, there is no way to save this setting and it disappears once you log off and log back in. I opened Case TS015174429 and they responded wi...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Canned S3 Adapter - support for the other providers like IBM cos, Pure storage etc.

Hi Chandra, After extensive testing and research, I have found that the AWS S3 adapter is currently only suited to working with virtual-host-style endpoint URLs. I'm noticing that the typical use case for the AWS S3 client adapter seems to be for ...
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Needs more information

Logs for who viewed/downloaded files in SFG

Currently we have users in sterling file gateway where these users have permissions to view and replay files. We would like to see who viewed the files from the SFG console. We have looked at ui.logs, security.logs, authentication.logs but we don'...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration