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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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Support HSMs including Cloud HSMs in container versions of SSP

Financial services customer have regulatory requirements to use HSMs for certificate storage. In order for them to migrate to containers it is an absolute must that the container version of the products should support the same HSMs as the non-cont...
4 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 3 Not under consideration

Calculate and publish Inventory Availability Based on Item Assigned Attribute Changes

Existing inventory availability calculations do not automatically adjust to changes in custom item attributes ( ItemAssignedAttribute ) leading to potential inaccuracies in stock levels and order fulfillment. For example, if the department value i...
about 1 year ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Allow SSP application to accept spaces and special characters in the username for LDAP integration

SSP application is not allowing AD username with spaces and special characters like '-'. Since our AD account has spaces and – in the username, this is not allowing us to integrate SSP with LDAP.
5 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 3 Future consideration

ICAP scanning required for files pulled and pushed by Sterling Integrator

Files that are pushed by external vendors are scanned via ICAP protocol in Sterling Secure Proxy. But the files that are pulled by Sterling Integrator are not scanned as they do not pass through SSP. This leaves a big gap in the scanning feature o...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Planned for future release

SIP Compatibility with AWS OpenSearch

The SIP is currently compatible with Elasticsearch 7.17.9 and future fix packs. It leverages the Elasticsearch Java client version 7.17.28, which includes a built-in validation for the response header "X-Elastic-Product: Elasticsearch". This heade...
5 months ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Future consideration

Introduce Region definition in SIP and add regional sourcing rules set up similar to Sterling OMS

SIP does not allow managing region definition so that a given post code in the available to promise APIs input can be related to a region and promise calculation can use the region constraint defined as part of promising rules. SIP can easily supp...
11 months ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Future consideration

Implement an audit history to show updates that are made to rules, data uploads, etc.

Useful to see when updates are made to rules, who makes the updates, what the old settings were, and what the new settings are.
6 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Publishing DG Availability Events for All Demand and Supply Changes

Business Requirement: Some of the external legacy applications are relying on network events to maintain current availability state. Scenario: DG Node-Specific Demand Without Supply The DG (distribution group) consists of multiple nodes. In a spec...
3 months ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Planned for future release

Enable SIP to securely publish/subscribe to Kafka topics using mutual TLS authentication for secure data exchange

We are currently in the process of deploying SIP services on AWS. As part of this initiative, we need to integrate with our existing Kafka infrastructure at Adidas, which enforces mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication. To support this, we are exploring...
6 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Secure Connection between Secure Proxy Engine (in DMZ) and SSP Perimeter Server (in Secure Network)

There is a requirement from customer to have Secure Connection between Secure Proxy Engine (in DMZ) and SSP Perimeter Server (in Secure Network).
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Future consideration