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Dormancy feature is available at application

Dormancy feature is available at application for User Accounts
11 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Under review

Make Compatible With Windows 11 Pro

Microsoft is pushing to move to Windows 11
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Disable concurrent user login in SCC

As per Bank security team, Concurrent logins should not be allowed. If the user is login via different machines or different browsers then the old session should be destroyed. As per them, we need to have this feature in the product or commitment ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 2 Planned for future release

Gentran Server For Windows 5.3.1 Windows 2022 Server and MS SQL 2022 Compatibility

Windows 2019 Server is going end of life in early 2024 so to keep server OS supported there is a need for Gentran Server for Windows 5.3.1 to be compatible with Windows 2022 Server. Also would be nice for the Gentran database to be compatible with...

I would like to see control center monitor use active directory as an authenticator vs just SQL authentication when connecting to a MSSQL database

For security reasons we don't use SQL Authentication for local accounts. We use domain service accounts. We would like to see the CC adopt this option for authentication.
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Not under consideration

IBM Control Center Support AD windows authentication method for SQL server database

To meet Industry security standards to authenticate to Enterprise Active Directory tool
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Not under consideration

Windows authentication (instead of SQL authentication) for connection to the database

This is a security standard for the Windows platform. Similar to idea SFG-I-324, for Sterling File Gateway, clients are asking about the Windows authentication between CCM/D and the database. Not have this option might be a roadblock for some clie...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Under review

Control Center authentication and control

For shops that are not using IBM Sterling External Authentication Server to authenticate to Control Center and are using the Control Center authentication, there is currently no way to set an expiration period for a user's password or forcing the ...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Not under consideration

Security Vulnerability Password in Plain text

We have identified a security vulnerability regarding passwords being stored in plain text in the application.Despite the solution provided by IBM not being accepted by the application support team, they have recommended raising an RFE case. ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Under review

Location Table ContactName string greater than 35 charecters.

We are currently using this field 'Contact' to store the email address, but the email that we are currently updating is 36 characters long and the last character is getting truncated due to the field length limitation of the Contact field. So need...