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Sterling File Gateway

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Officially support EBICS v3.0.2

The EBICS org published a revised specification for v3.0 on June 27th 2022 to replace previous versions (3.0.0 and 3.0.1) with effect from December 30th 2022. All customers wanting to use EBICS v3 in the IBM EBICS Server and Client must be able to...
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 1 Future consideration

Enablement of SSH Certificates

Sterling B2B leverages SSH Keys for SFTP file transfers and OpenSSH to faciliate this. I would like to see it enable the ability to use SSH Certificates. SSH Certificates provide significant increase in security as opposed to SSH keys.
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Needs more information

Exporting Filesystem Virtual root path in SFG

The reason why exporting the file system virtual roots in Sterling Fileway is beneficial is that we need to export the filesystem paths that are assigned to specific users whenever a CISO, audit, or security team requests verification or audit che...
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Password & Key based authentication for individual users using single SFTP Server Adapter

Password or key, Password and key, Password, Key based authentication functionality is required with respective users segregation. Assuming that the SFTP server adapter's authentication type is set to Password or Key, when a user with access to th...
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Export users list with user status (enabled or disabled)

Admin is not able to enable or disable the users in Sterling Filegateway and not able to export the user status whether the user is in active state or not.
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

SIEM Integration with IBM Sterling Filegateway

SIEM is used to collect, aggregate, and analyze data from sterling applications, and users in real-time can detect issues whenever required, It seems sterling filegatway is not supported to integrate SIEM. we have raised PMR support ticket with IB...
6 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

IdAM integration with either OKTA/ Compact identity provider

Since the customer is from the Banking and Financial sector, IdAM is expected to manage the relationship between an entity and the resources to which access is required. We have raised a PMR ticket (TS012827600) stating that we do not have any doc...
6 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Unable to receive email notifications after changing of payload repository as filesystem in SFTP Server Adapter

Email notifications are very critical in business use cases where customer are required to get notified when file transfer success/failure, system performance.
6 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

Support STARTTLS SMTP

Our system implemented the use of STARTTLS SMTP and we cannot send emails from SFG
7 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Not under consideration

SFG Utlization and Consumption KPI's

We are trying to explore consumption KPI's of the environment. At a high level, how to obtain correlation between file transfers volume/size with over all resources consumption ? - Build trend visualizations showing weekly consumption - cpu/memory...
11 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Reporting 2 Future consideration