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Sterling File Gateway

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Enablement of SSH Certificates

Sterling B2B leverages SSH Keys for SFTP file transfers and OpenSSH to faciliate this. I would like to see it enable the ability to use SSH Certificates. SSH Certificates provide significant increase in security as opposed to SSH keys.
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Needs more information

SFG API service to update Known Host Key

The current infrastructure in our org has close to 50k SFTP remote profiles configured and for almost 30% of them the known host key has to be renewed every 3-6 months or so. The current API services do not allow updates to be made to a known host...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Sterling Filegateway - Disable the Known host key validations for Outbound sftp connections ( StrictHostKeyChecking=no )

Hello - Checking, for the SFG outbound sftp client connections - if the known host key validations will be turned-off or make them dynamically added. this way we can get rid off the BP's that will fail in the steps for each occurrence when a partn...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 0 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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Not under consideration

Support to update trading partner (partner profile) data or ask to remove their data or configuration in SFG

Based a regulations like GDPR and LGPD customer needs do provide to their trading partners the option to update the trading partner profile thru myFG 2.0 or even an option to remove or download their data.
10 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Under review

Dashboard should give the possibility in the key creation to add ECDSA keys

Currently when creating SSH keys via the SBI dashboard ( Trading partner --> SSH --> Use Identity key --> create --> New user key ), only RSA and DSA keys encryption can be chosen. But in the real world, companies require much higher a...
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Logs for who viewed/downloaded files in SFG

Currently we have users in sterling file gateway where these users have permissions to view and replay files. We would like to see who viewed the files from the SFG console. We have looked at ui.logs, security.logs, authentication.logs but we don'...
6 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Accept EBICS order timestamps with no decimals for seconds

For timestamps provided when sending an order request although the EBICS Specification generally refers to 3 decimal places for seconds being expected, it just points to the W3 datetime specification (https://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dateTime) w...
5 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Submitted

Support Open API 3.0 specifications in the Sterling B2B Integrator and Sterling File Gateway APIs

My customer would like to have in our product support for Open API 3.0, because most developers are no longer using OpenAPI 2.0 and want to move to OpenAPI 3.0.
10 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Export users details, adapter level permissions, paths configured, folder permissions in one consolidated sheet in IBM SFG

Exporting user details like surname, email, passsword policy, session timeout, last login, adapter level permissions, folder permissions, paths configured for individual users in a one consolidated sheet to be exported from IBM Sterling file gatew...
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists