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PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...

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IBM Sterling Products - provide Ansible / Chef playbooks for patching and deploying products

Manual installation and patching of IBM Sterling products is very risky, time-consuming, and error-prone, which is not sustainable for long-term support. Our business is seeking automated playbook recipes (e.g., Chef or Ansible) from IBM for produ...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Support for Odette protocol (OFTP)

In Brazillian market we have a lot customers that are using file transfer based on OFTP (Odette), so because of that, to have more SSP deployed we need to implement this protocol in the SSP.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration

Support HSMs including Cloud HSMs in container versions of SSP

Financial services customer have regulatory requirements to use HSMs for certificate storage. In order for them to migrate to containers it is an absolute must that the container version of the products should support the same HSMs as the non-cont...
4 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 3 Not under consideration

Include ForgeRock Directory LDAP service to IBM officially supported list

We're using ForgeRock Directory service in LDAP and enabled HTTP password policy. But got an issue that the warming message will be changing randomly with multiple login attempted. case has been raised to IBM but they noticed that ForgeRock Direct...
4 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 4 Not under consideration

Portable installation for B2B (non container)

In our environment we do not use container for B2B, but we have an automated installation process using IBM Installation Manager, however this process is slow and difficult to generate all the steps to make it autonomous. We would like the B2B ins...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

GnuPG latest version (2.2.x) integration with B2Bi 6.x

After upgrade of B2Bi from 5.2.6.x to 6.1.1.0, we are no longer able to use GnuPG. 6.1.1.0 has supported OS for RHEL 7/8. Newer RHEL versions have latest GnuPG installed on it as base package configuration where we are getting (2.2.x) version. B2B...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Hooks to enable the SSO Authentication for SSPDashboard URL

No description provided
over 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 4 Not under consideration

Provide visibility of log info within SSP UI for troubleshooting of connectivity or authentication issues

Troubleshooting external trading partner connectivity issues requires accessing the SB2BI servers and searching multiple log files. This is extremely cumbersome as well as requiring production support resources to have access to the server, which ...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

HSTS enhancement on GIS system

u As per the incident TS007584566 we have requested for HSTS enhancement in GIS system. Previously we have requested the same via TS007322240 and we have been suggested to raise a enhancement request as it is standard functionality. Kindly conside...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 3 Not under consideration

Concept of Certificate Grouping and Referring Group Directly Under Netmaps

In Today's world, when Client Authentication is Enabled in SSP, firstly we need to get the root and intermediate certs and check-in to the SSP and then choose the new certificates in the respective netmaps. The number of netmaps we need to make th...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 2 Not under consideration