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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...
27 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Reporting 0 Submitted

Need Audit details of cycle count Approval and Rejection

We need an Audit Details of who approved/Rejected the cycle count on variance ,Currently we have audit details only to whom the task is assigned but not the details of person who approved/rejected it hence it is becoming difficult to identify the ...
3 months ago in Store Engagement / APIs & SDKs 3 Future consideration

Ability to convert TEXT / HTML data to PDF in GIODE flows

We would like to have Text/HTML-to-PDF convertor (PDF Generator) available to be executed as an XProcessor. In other words, any TEXT -or- HTML payload passed to this XProcessor should be converted into PDF format. This will help customers to recei...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Mapping & Translation 1 Future 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...
8 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Not under consideration

Support Additional methods of smtp authentication

PEM currently only supports basic authentication for SMTP. ( user id, password ). At most, it does allow you to select between smtp and smtps. However, smtp providers have been moving away from basic authentication for some time. PEM does not allo...
7 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 1 Future consideration

Correct the current functionality of the "Negative Acknowledgement Report" process & output to allow configuration that will prevent inclusion of transactions that are "Accepted with Errors" and are NOT a "Negative" Acknowledgment

The current functionality of the “Negative Acknowledgement Report” creates an exception event and “Negative Acknowledgement” email report for Acknowledgements that are actually a status of “Accepted with Errors”, which by its’ very context and des...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Inflight 0 Under review

GPM (Graphical Process Modeler)

The current version of GPM does not function with the current Java SDK levels. The last valid Java JDK is Java 1.8.0_281. This fails to meet current Java versions for vulnerability issues. As a result, many will have to justify the need to run an ...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Under review

AWS Adapter Enhancements

Enhancement list for AWS adapter includes the following: 1) perimeter server support 2) begin/end session functionality 3) managing credentials in SFG profile (obscuring creds requires that a script is run on the credentials before entering into S...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 3 Future consideration

Update a watched directory location for Integrated File Agent

For stand alone File Agent, a user can update/correct a watched directory location. This seems like a basic function and yet it doesn't exist for Integrated File Agent. If a watched directory location has to be updated for Integrated File Agent, i...

Disclose installation documents to users

We have documentation regarding Gentran:Director, but the last update is 2011. It looks obsolete. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/sterling-gentrandirector-documentation