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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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We need item level (active/inactive) Flag, to decide whether to publish inventory or not. This flag should be incorporated into both active sync and full sync queries.

We are currently facing issue with Inventory Snapshot publishing for items that we do not wants to publish the inventory details. These items may have been de-activated or it's not part of active catalog or due to compliance issue we do not wants ...
3 days ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Submitted

Simple Report on user or IP and the Cipher/Algorith/Mac/Key Exchange they used to connect for the SSP

This is useful information for larger organizations who need to deprecate older ciphers/algorithms/key exchanges. If you don't own/purchase CCM there isnt' a way to do easily do this. Which is odd since the information is contained in the SSP logs...
10 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Reporting 0 Submitted

MARKET SYNC GOOGLE.com/CLOUD SHELL Container ENABLE ORACLE JAVA ENTERPRISE SQL server MANAGEMENT ROBOT DEPLOYER(s(JOB))EXECUTION intall workload PROUDCE FILE.SETUP then initialize errorless SQL queried(S)

PROUCT programming CREATING DATASCIENCE including TECHNOLOGY upgraded VERSION of ORCHESTRATION manipulating OFFLINE/ONLINE DIRECTION WORKFLOW syncing SHELL CLOUD GOOGLE https://jackiesfilms.verify.ibm.com/ui/admin ADMINISTRATOR GMAIL client from P...
8 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Performance 0 Submitted

Include supply chain pack for EDIFACT D94A

The D94A Type Tree is missing from the supply chain packs for Design Studio. To support any customer wishing to use this version, we have to take the D94B Type Tree and manually compare and edit the Type Tree to ensure that the mandatory/optional ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Under review

Test compatibility windows server 2025 and SSP

Our organization want to migrate from windows server 2019 to windows server 2025 by 4th quarter of 2026
2 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 5 Future consideration

Sterling Secure Proxy HSM Integration to store TLS certificate encryption key only

Many organizations use SSP for TLS sessions termination and authenticate clients in presentation zone. The volumes would be high in general, with HSM integration and security mandates each TLS connection has to communicate with HSM for TLS offload...
4 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Future consideration

Detailed information from ISERROR function

Currently when we use the ISERROR function, it just returns true of false. It would be great if we could get a more detailed response. Something like, "Failed component rule" or "Doesn't match expected type". Now I can get more detailed informatio...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

Sterling Secure Proxy to sign Login SAML request

Presently IBM Sterling Secure proxy sends a SAML request to external Idp using SSO Configuration in SSP. The Login SAML request is not adding the signature but the logout request is adding the signature in SAML request from SSP. From our security ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Planned for future release

Support ICAP on SSP FTPS adapters

SSP's ICAP capability currently only supports Connect:Direct, SFTP, and https (myfg2.0 specifically when exposing myfilegateway). Customers require support for FTPS since many partners globally still use FTPS and will continue to do so.SSP custome...
2 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Needs more information

Request for Enhancement (RFE): Alternative User Exit Options in IBM Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP)

Request for Enhancement (RFE): Alternative User Exit Options in IBM Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP) 1. Introduction This document proposes an enhancement to IBM Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP) to include support for alternative user exit options beyond th...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Future consideration