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Sterling File Gateway

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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...
about 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Not under consideration

Download/upload files via using https link?

We have many non-technical vendors, and we need the functionality to provide them with the link to upload/download files.
5 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 4 Needs more information

Support Microsoft Entra ID since we are replacing the use of LDAP

We are moving away as an organization from using LDAP and replacing it with Microsoft Entra ID. Please build in support for that as an additional method of user authentication outside of SFG and B2Bi
6 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Under review

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'...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Support to update trading partner (partner profile) data or ask to remove their data or configuration in SFG

Based a regulations like GDPR and LGPD customer needs do provide to their trading partners the option to update the trading partner profile thru myFG 2.0 or even an option to remove or download their data.
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Under review

Support Open API 3.0 specifications in the Sterling B2B Integrator and Sterling File Gateway APIs

My customer would like to have in our product support for Open API 3.0, because most developers are no longer using OpenAPI 2.0 and want to move to OpenAPI 3.0.
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 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 ...
8 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 8 Future consideration

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...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway 1 Future 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 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Functionality already exists

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 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Functionality already exists