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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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Automate db Wizard option

For Windows Servers I think that colud be interesting have and option to automate a DB Wizard. I think that in the past this could be possible, but not now. Because if someone have a problem with postgres database and need to do a DB Wizard correc...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

Sharepoint Integration

We are getting a lot of requests to transfer files directly to a sharepoint site using connect direct
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Functionality already exists

Configure Adapter to blacklist user-ids

Hi Team, IBM Sterling Secure Proxy Configuration Manager must have an option at adapter-level to blacklist user-ids. Expectation: By default the incoming traffic [Protocol: SFTP] does prompt for a password. Business Security admins are increasingl...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Functionality already exists

Check the Write permission on Destination folder without submitting COPY statement

Hi Team, We are trying out a way if we can check permission on target folder on SNODE, before doing actual transfer. Like we do 'Echo Test" to test if the NDM connectivity is good between 2 NDM nodes. If we can have option in NDM to do 'Echo" test...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

CD Unix- CODEPAGE with "iconv -c" or substitution char

When CODEPAGE parameter is used for a transfer, iconv api is used internally by CD to codepage traduction in CDUnix-Linux and CDzOS (CDWindows doesn't use iconv, it's using Microsfot's API mlang.dll). When in the content of the source file there i...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 9 Functionality already exists

Need an ability to Stop and Start the SSP Adapters and Engines vis SSPRestAPI.SH and SSPRestAPI.properties

We are building a solution that will allow us to centrally manage all of our estate which includes IBM Sterling Secure Proxy. Currently we can see in the HTTPS webcalls we can see the methods to Start and Stop the adapters it will be good if we ca...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

Add ability to suppress health check (log message)

Simple configuration on/off switch
over 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 4 Functionality already exists

Suppress password policy error messages from SEAS logs if using Ping for Active Directory.

ERROR LdapPasswordPolicyRetriever - ************** Uknown or unsupported LDAP server detected We use Ping for our Active Directory solution and it was determined that Ping does not return the password policy to SEAS as expected. Therefore, this...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Functionality already exists

Inactivity Session Timeout Controls - Administrator Accounts

The administrative consoles for the Sterling Secure Proxy do not contain inactivity session timeout settings. This is not in compliance with our security procedures that require implementation of automatic system timeouts that end user sessions af...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Functionality already exists

Monitoring Adapters

Would it be possible to create a way to monitor secure proxy adapters from the command line? It is possible to monitor sfg that way and as such building automation around this capability is nice.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists