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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 for Active Directory pooling or putting Domain Controller behind a VIP

We would benefit using a VIP to hit Domain Controllers in one or multiple data centers or using pooling of Domain Controllers

Add built-in report for bruteforce attempts.

The Sterling Proxy is our gateway between the internet and SFG. As such, we are exposed to attempts to guess user IDs using brutefore methods. The raw internal logs show each event and contain the IP address, Time, username and number of failed...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Reporting 2 Future consideration

PIV Card Support for Sterling MFT/B2B Products

PIV was initially introduced by HSPD-12 (Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12), in August of 2004. However, it is just now that agencies are being mandated to comply with this directive. The first required delivery date that we know of for ...
over 5 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 1 Future consideration

Only fixed email templates can be used with API sponsors/{sponsorContext}/sendemail

Right now, we have fixed email templates within PEM which we can use to link with this send-email API. Meaning if their is a new need then the only option we have to change any of the existing template and no other way. Please see that we should h...
9 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 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...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to declare a global file size upload limit in SFG

Add the ability to declare a global file size upload limit in SFG. The limit is a property. The limit applies to a single file transmission. The limit is available to all protocols (SSHFTP, Myfilegateway, Connect Direct, FTP, HTTP, AS2, Swift, etc...
over 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Future consideration

A new report in Transparent Supply UI that reflects the number of events sent to the platform per year and month of the EventTime and Country of the Facility that uploads it.

We need a report in the Transparent Supply Dashboard in an “Event Uploads” style that reflects the number of events sent to the platform per year and month of the EventTime (not the time it was uploaded) and Country of the Facility that uploads it...
5 months ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 0 Future consideration

Ability/ Option to clean up data loaded into IV via a self-serve option/ API

Currently, IV APIs do not give the option to clean up the data loaded into it via the integration with OMoC. There are APIs to perform adjustments or to zero-out the supplies/ demands and hence availability in IV (and thereby the process to clean ...
over 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Future consideration

Build and Deploy only the war needed + Build script per Env

IDEA-1: Todays it is not possible to build only selected war of the application that requires rebuild. Every time whole ear is built with all the wars which takes quite a time. It would be great if user can select the required war to be rebuild an...
5 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

File replay on surviving data center using metadata from cassandra if the processing data center goes down

Currently , if the file is uploaded to the datacenter (DC) and that DC goes down, there is no way to replay that file until the DC comes up. This causes adverse impact on customer's business. Having this will help the production support to replay ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 0 Future consideration