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Sterling File Gateway

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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...
about 7 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Planned for future release

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...
over 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Not under consideration

Select Adapter group with RESTApi for AS2 on SFG Cluster

Hi When SFG is in cluster mode, we use the sterling interface to edit the AS2 partner configuration and select an adapter group instead of an individual adapter to load balance the connection and avoid failures. We wanted to use the RESTAPI to per...
10 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Support for ORacle 23c

A we are upgrading to Oracle 23c we use it for SFG and would like to make sure there is support for this release of Oracle DB.
10 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 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...
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Global Mailbox 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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future 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.
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 3 Future 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?
about 7 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 1 Functionality already exists

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...
over 4 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under 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...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 1 Functionality already exists