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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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Gentran Server Workbench Needs to Support AIX 7.1

Currently Gentran Workbench 6.2 only supports the UNIX operating system up to AIX 6.2. Since support of AIX 6.2 ends April 2017, the software should be upgraded to allow for this.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Other 0 Planned for future release

Unicode support for SAP IDOC flatfiles

According to the PMR 69372,082,000, Gentran:Server for Windows does not support Unicode for SAP flatfile IDOCs. The enhancement request is to add Unicode support for SAP IDOCs that are created as flatfile format.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Usability 0 Future consideration

support the %U file name convention in process control

support the %U file naming convention in process control. The customer requests supporting %U in the File Name field (under the Command field which contains GDW_Audit_Rpt for example) in Process Control. Customer - Tommy Vinson tvinson@piolaxusa.com
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Other 0 Future consideration

Allow GSW to print to multiple printers in a non-distributed environment

Currently Gentran:Server for Windows only prints to the default printer (in a non-distributed environment). This request would allow the user to select any registered printer to print depending on the type of document to be printed. In addition th...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Bulk download of orders and orderlines from Optimizer Explainer

The current Optimizer Explainer does not a have an option to export the orders, order lines and node details to be exported to an external template for further review and analysis, the limitations lead to the following challenges. Difficulty in id...
almost 3 years ago in Intelligent Promising 2 Planned for future release

IP + User_Id whitelisting

SSP supports IP or User_Id whitelisting only but not a combo ( IP + User_id). We need to ability to whitelist IPs for a given User_id. This way, if a rouge employee left the firm but carries the user_id credential, he can't login from other locati...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Future consideration

Disable concurrent user login in SSP

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...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Future consideration

IBM Gentran Server's compatibility with "SAP ECC EHP7 Kernel 753 patch 401" and "Netweaver 7.4".

Ability for Gentran to communicate with unicode with "SAP ECC EHP7 Kernel 753 patch 401" and "Netweaver 7.4".
about 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director 0 Not under consideration

GCM mode for SFTP

We are seeing increased reluctance from partner organisations to trust CBC mode, due to OpenSSH's withdrawal of support for this mode by default. This leaves Secure Proxy with only CTR mode encryption as a widely accepted option. To ensure that we...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Future consideration

Inactivity Session Timeout Controls - Administrator Accounts

The administrative consoles for the Sterling Secure Proxy do not contain inactivity session timeout settings. This is not in compliance with our security procedures that require implementation of automatic system timeouts that end user sessions af...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Functionality already exists