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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

Looking to have the "Both" authentication option added to Partner creation/edit in File Gateway.

Currently when we have an external customer connect to us using sftp our sftp authentication method requires that someone go into B2Bi User Accounts and select the "Both" option for authentication type. This requires admin access which we would pr...
over 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

Multi Factor Authentication with Email or App Verification for HTTPS Users (MyFileGateway)

We have an urgent business/security requirement for a Multi-Factor authentication and Dual Authentication from trading partners. Our current systems runs on V 6.0.0.2 SFG Version. Can SFG V6 and above support 'Dual Authentication' and 'MFA' ? Dual...
over 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Functionality already exists

Make FGArrivedFile REST API useable.

A great use for the Sterling REST API would be to query the FGArrivedFile, FGRoute, and FGDelivery endpoints in order to build a modern delivery dashboard for business users.This is currently impossible with the current implementation due to a cou...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 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...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Converting a Global Mailbox back to Traditional Mailbox

It would be nice to add a capability to convert a GM to a TM if there is ever a need to revert a customer back to the Traditional Mailbox.
about 4 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Onboarding 0 Future consideration

Enable Adhoc Email Link for file downloads without User Login Credentials

This is a business need with most enterprise's we have had conversation. While we have stressed on the aspect of Security concerns and its impact. The clients have strongly evinced interest for this capability as the dependency is high on IT and T...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 1 Functionality already exists

Add the ability to declare a global file size upload limit in SFG

Add the ability to declare a global file size upload limit in SFG. The limit is a property. The limit applies to a single file transmission. The limit is available to all protocols (SSHFTP, Myfilegateway, Connect Direct, FTP, HTTP, AS2, Swift, etc...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Future consideration

AWS S3 access-key and Secret-key Import/deployment option.

Option to deploy/import access-key/secret-key details into our product table. So that we can fetch those values while creating AWSS3custom protocol in IBM Sterling File gateway. This way we can able fetch Bucketname, access-key/secret-key values e...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway 1 Future consideration

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...
about 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Not under consideration