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Sterling File Gateway

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Officially support EBICS v3.0.2

The EBICS org published a revised specification for v3.0 on June 27th 2022 to replace previous versions (3.0.0 and 3.0.1) with effect from December 30th 2022. All customers wanting to use EBICS v3 in the IBM EBICS Server and Client must be able to...
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 1 Future consideration

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

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

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

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...
9 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 1 Functionality already exists

Remote profile routing channel 'connection

When using a remote profile, to route a file to a remote server using ssh keys. It would be great to allow something that would take a routing channel name then the producer mailbox path and allow parsing so it can match the directory in the remot...
11 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Mapping & Translation 1 Under review

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...
12 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Protect SFG for event flood caused by large volume GET requests of very small fiels

When the File Gateway is hit by a very high amount of GET requests to download small files will cause an event flood. As these events are tracked in the visibility db, this may cause the system to "hang" - all threads blocked - as the visibility d...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 0 Future consideration

MyFilegateway GUI

As per the business requirement we would like to have few customizations required on myFilegateway GUI like Mouse Hover Text, Column Name Change etc..,. Here attaching those requirements in a word document for your reference
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Under review

Change MQ adapter password max from 20 to 42+ characters.

MQ adapter in B2BI/SFG is limited to a 20 character password. IBM MQ SaaS offering in IBM Cloud requires a 42 character password minimum. Can the allowed password length be increased so B2BI/SFG MQ adapter will work on IBM Cloud MQ Service?
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Planned for future release