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Sterling File Gateway

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SFG with PGP setup page with always trust option

My customer(KBANK Thailand) would like to use SFG with PGP and do not want to accept always trust when the customer would like to onboard the new their clients. My customer do not want to accept always trust by manual way. So need IBM File Gateway...
over 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future 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 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Onboarding 0 Planned for future release

Global Mailbox - Replicate New Trading Partners/etc To All Data Centers

When a trading partner is created in one data center, it should replicate to the other data centers. I should not have to export/import the data. This feels like an intentional blocker to push clients to pay for PEM. If it truly is global, what ha...
about 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Global Mailbox 1 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...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Not under consideration

Ability to edit/change the SFG partner community

Currently there is no way to edit or change the SFG partner community once it is created within a community. It will be really helpful if there is an option to make that change from within the SFG UI.
about 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

A set of SQL queries tied to the Activity Snapshot tool is creating an overhead on the database and could be effectively optimised.

We have an issue with the overhead of a specific set of SQLs in SFG 6.1.1.1. IBM confirmed that these queries have been looked at for version 6.1.1.3 but as we have no details of the changes, we’d like to create an Idea. These are the SQLs seen ru...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 1 Functionality already exists

More algorithms support for diffie-hellman

Understand that current supported SSH Key Exchange Algorithms:diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 However, is it possible to support more diffie-hellman algorithm? Example, diffie-hellman-gro...
over 6 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Planned for future release

Provide mechanism to persist EBICS COF order descriptions

Currently the descriptions for EBICS order types created using the Custom Order Framework must be manually added into the relevant ebics_{language].properties file in the lang sub-folder. These properties cannot be defined in customer_overrides e....
9 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 1 Future consideration

Connect Direct Adapter auto recovery

Case TS003985405 was raised to report that the Sterling B2B Integrator Connect Direct Server Adapter does not auto restart if the database connection is broken This leads to file transfer failures and requires a manual restart of the adapter If th...
about 4 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Self-Service option in SFG, allow our business partner to replay their own failed transfers.

Is there an option in SFG to allow our business partner to replay their own failed file transfers for their accounts? If so, do you have any documentation/information on how to enable that feature?
almost 7 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 1 Functionality already exists