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Sterling File Gateway

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Disable concurrent user login in SFG and Dashboard

Currently for the Concurrent login with same credentials via different machines or different browsers, there is pop-up message which notify, that there are multiple sessions and upon clicking on "OK" button, both sessions kept active. Security tea...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Under review

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

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...
about 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Functionality already exists

myFileGateway activity search screen options are meaningless for external partenrs

'Producer', 'Consumer', 'Protocol' and 'Status' does not make much sense to external partenrs. They are too technical or better suitable only for FG admins. For example: 'Protocol' selection. Why this option is given to partner? He always logs t...
over 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Not under consideration

myFileGateway - add capability to view/download the file

Our trading partners have been requesting to view/download the file through myFileGateway. Currently this web application does not provide this functionality. This should be configurable so we can restrict permission on need basis
about 7 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 1 Functionality already exists

Alert notification needed whenever errors occur in BP FileGatewayMailboxRoute

Alert notification needed whenever errors occur in BP FileGatewayMailboxRoute
about 19 hours ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 0 Submitted

Limit User permissions in MyFiles UI

Would like to enhance myFilesUI to restrict user functionality. For example restricting their ability to delete files from the Mailbox.
28 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Add support for AES encryption algorithm for encrypt_string.sh tool in Sterling File Gateway

Would like to add support for using AES-256 encryption algorithm when encrypting clear-text values using encrypt_string.sh (obscure values) utility within the Sterling File Gateway installation. Current method seems to be using TripleDES which has...
about 1 month ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Submitted

Enable smart card login in myfilegateway

Since many companies use smart card login for security reasons, it was a good idea allow partners to login to myfilegateway using these method
about 2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Submitted

Do not route .part or .lock

We have had a situation where transfers were interrupted and the source kept connecting and startting a transfer and then disconnecting (poorly written in Azure) and it cause ALOT (30 plus) .partial and .lock files. And since this upload directory...
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Submitted