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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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Provision of adding of extra annotation to Statefulset/Pods using Helm charts Values file

While setting up IBM SSP in containerized way currently there is no Standard way of adding Extra Annotations to Statefulset/Pods in IBM Sterling Secure Proxy helm charts using Values file Right now to add any extra annotations we need to make chan...
11 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Planned for future release

Ability To Test Actions

After setting up an Action, you are unable to test it without adding it to a rule, and then manually triggering the rule. This is very time consuming when you're trying to verify configuration of the action. I would like there to be a test button ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Future consideration

diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 Moduli min bits

As diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 typically used a minimum of 2048 bits for the key size. However for the stronger security, it's recommended to use 3072 bits or even 4096 in SSP. However, we can't change the min bits of moduli in SSP to ful...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Planned for future release

User should be able to use variable in Send email >To field under the action.

Currently, we are only able to provide mail ids only when we create the action in Control Center Monitor. IN our project, we are using meta data and we want to use the meta data variable in Send email so that as per server, email should get to own...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Planned for future release

expand password length to 100 Characters

Consistency of all IBM products to allign with the RACF maximum Password/Passphrase Lengths,
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Planned for future release

SSP Rest Monitoring

We would like to track the engine and detailed per engine adapter status through Rest. This data is available on the viewEngineStatusAllMonitor.jsp page when logging in through the browser but not through the current rest interface.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 0 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

Concept of Certificate Grouping and Referring Group Directly Under Netmaps

In Today's world, when Client Authentication is Enabled in SSP, firstly we need to get the root and intermediate certs and check-in to the SSP and then choose the new certificates in the respective netmaps. The number of netmaps we need to make th...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 2 Not under consideration

More Robust Search Options in SCC web client

In the Sterling Control Center Web Client, under the Monitor, Completed File Transfers screen... We would like to see more robust search criteria. Currently it is allowing us to search based on data, server, filename and status. Our biggest use of...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 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