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Support service mesh for container deployments

Enterprise customers looking to deploy containers under kubernetes, especially in OpenShift, specify that service mesh must be used, in this case Red Hat's Service Mesh based on istio
24 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

S3 support for Linux on Power.

I would like to kindly request that S3 support be extended to IBM Sterling Connect:Direct versions running on Power systems. Many of our clients use Power platforms and are in need of this feature to meet their integration requirements.
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

Allow Pass-Through User Mapping option for " Password Or Key " Authentication Method in SFTP policies

We want to be able to select on the secure proxy configuration manager on SFTP policies the User Mapping option " Pass-Through " when the required Authentication Method selected is " Password Or Key ". This option is available for " Password ", " ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

Generate Notifications From IBM Secure Proxy on Expiring Certificates

When using Connect: Direct and Secure Proxy, all the Partner specific certificates currently get checked into IBM Secure Proxy Trust Store, if there are Partner certificates up for expiry there is no functionality available in SSP to notify on th...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Monitoring, Alerting and Reporting capabilities not available

Monitoring: The only way to investigate the status/traffic of a specific connection is accessing the Event and Audit log files located in the SSP server. This has a deep impact on the usability of the product making the operation activities of Sup...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Need Connect Direct supported on IBM's own ppc64le architecture in the OpenShift environment.

As the industry is moving to containerization, and IBM is pushing hard to sell their Cloud Paks, we are hoping that they can see the importance of supporting their own software on their own products they are pushing. We are starting to do much con...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

Linux systemd script implementation for Sterling Connect:Express

to Develop and test example IBM Sterling Connect:Express linux autoboot systemd control script since systemd is replacing init.d for RHEL 7 and other linux distributions.
12 months ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Usability 2 Future consideration

Steling Secure Proxy new feature request for password reset/forgot password.

System : SSPActor: User needing to change a forgot password. SSP currently does not support forgot password or password reset self service functionality. Need to add this feature on SSP Description: During the initial on boarding of a partner id w...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Automated way to copy exported SSL conf file from CM to Engine

We use a common SSL certificate for the CM, engine and Jetty web server communications. We export the SSL certificate store file from the CM (via ./configureCmSsl.sh -e file=<export file>) and store that in a location on the server the CM ru...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Allow customization of LDAP ping "dummy" user

It is possible to configure a periodic "heartbeat" that checks the connection to External Auth, and it is also possible to have it attempt an LDAP bind (via the ea.ping.profile setting). However, when it does this LDAP bind, it uses a fake user ("...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration