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Sterling File Gateway

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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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

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.
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 1 Not under consideration

Lot's of remote profiles causing the UI page to crash on SFG Consumer - SFTP profile selection page

Lot's of remote profiles causing the UI page to crash on SFG Consumer - SFTP profile selection page, should have a property to control the no.of profiles displayed on the sftp profile selection page.. IBM Case# TS009761621
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Onboarding 0 Planned for future release

Sterling Filegateway UI - to add an extra option "Both" for Authentication Type in User Account in Partner creation

In Sterling B2Bi UI, while User account creation we are having options Local, External and Both for Authentication Type. In Sterling B2Bi UI, if we opt option "Both" for external partners with whom we do password based authentication, and if we do...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 0 Future consideration

System Certificate Name Update - Global Update to Adapters/CD Nodes

When editing a System Certificate under B2B console > Trading Partner > Digital Certificate > System > (Your System Cert) > "Edit Name or Usage of existing Certificate"... You aren't able to make that name change globally. So your C...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

MyFileGateway 2.0 (enable same capabilities / customization / Usability similar to 1.0)

There currently more customization in 1.0 vs 2.0 in terms of permissions and default views (FileActivity/downloads/uploads). The enhancements of multifile download and download as Zip are what our users wanted, but not with loss of certain functio...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Future consideration

Logging is needed WHO and WHEN downloaded a file from Sterling Dashboard or FileGateway

When debuging file flows it is useful to see how the file looked before the transformation and how it looks after transformations. Due to compliance reasons on production systems it is necessary to see WHO and WHEN downloaded the file and viewed i...
about 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Not under consideration

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...
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 1 Future consideration

CAPTCHA implementation for SFG UI Interface

One of our Customer (STATE BANK OF INDIA) raised the below security issue. They are migrating their SFTP partner to Sterling File Gateway. They have requested to have CAPTCHA option when partners uploading files via the SFG UI. Their requirement i...
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Functionality already exists