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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 HP-UX B.11.31 for SSP 6.1

Could you please provide support for SSP 6.1 on HP-UX B.11.31? A customer in the financial industry needs us to support SSP 6.1 on HP-UX B.11.31 because HPE offers the extended support for B.11.31 until Dec 2028. https://www.hpe.com/jp/ja/servers/...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Not under consideration

MQ notifications on CX

When notifications are sent using HTTP, as you only have one HTTP server to send the notification you cannot do any load balancing between multiple nodes. If HTTP server answers too slowly due to a large load, HTTP response code can be sent before...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Performance 0 Not under consideration

Make Sterling Secure Proxy perform DNS resolution at the connection time

Currently SSP Engines only perform DNS lookups when the configuration is loaded from the configuration manager. This should be changed so that DNS resolution is performed at the time of a connection, when a node's configuration is accessed.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration

We need a MEMO not case sensitive

see attached file
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Usability 0 Not under consideration

CX Direct access to tapes

CONNECT:EXPRESS FOR Z/OS could access directly tapes : read tape to transmit the file or write on tape the file received.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Usability 0 Not under consideration

CX SYSTCP Partial generic

In the SYSTCP the TCP/IP address can only be unique or '*'. It can't be générique like 172.016.063.* So we have too much entries.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Security 0 Not under consideration

Connect:Express Zos : use of batch process P0B2DIR

Connect:Express Zos : with batch Process P0B2DIR, we want to use the function LIST and EXPORT with only one SPN (or SFN). today, we can use only these functions with PARTNER.NAME = *
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Other 1 Not under consideration

CX Number of transfers requests in a mode

To have a MVS command (MODIFY to the CX address space) to query the number of requests in the CX which are in the mode we would specify in the command ('U' for the running requests for example).
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

CX/ZOS Possibility to swap the logging so it is not increasing indefinitely

In CX/ZOS, the SYSLOG and other ddnames are increasing indefinitely. If they are Sysouts, which is convenient, this can cause Spool problems. It would be great to have the possibility to swap them, as Z/OS offers it for the ddnames JESMSGLG and JE...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration