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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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Provide additional information when Session High Water Mark is reached

For Product id 5665-X09, record the number of active PRIMARY (PNODE) sessions and the number of active SECONDARY (SNODE) sessions when the session high water mark is reached. Record as much additional information as is reasonably possible in the s...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Delivered

C:D for z/OS to support the allocation of PDSE V2 datasets

Currently, IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for z/OS (CDZ) does not support the allocation of PDSE Verion 2 (V2) data sets. Customer has the requirement to use the CDZ function to transfer PDSE V2 data sets for program deployment between testing and pr...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Delivered

Support for MS Windows Server 2019

Please add Microsoft Windows Server 2019 to the list of supported OSes for Connect:Direct for Windows v4.7 and higher.

Allow a SFG Community to allow using more than one PGP key for decryption.

Allow a SFG community to allow partners to use the existing key or the new key to encrypt their data with so that SFG then can use either PGP key for decryption - this will allow partners to make changes in a gradual way , when we generate new PGP...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 3 Delivered

Introduce SASL Support in B2Bi

Integration use case with ITX and the Kafka adapter. Confulence is pushing SASL Support. SASL provides higher level security options to our customers
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Delivered

Add TLS 1.3 Support to Sterling External Authentication Server

No description provided
over 5 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 4 Delivered

Connect:direct windows support ms windows 11 as windows 10 will be eos at 2025

Windows 11 support

SSP to support 9000+ IPs/range nodes in Inbound Netmaps for all protocols

Currently, we have 9000+ IPs/CIDR ranges to allow the traffic from. We have added 9000+ entries in Netmap nodes but when we try to edit/save/add more nodes manually the SSP CM GUI is hanging/breaks/not responding properly/going to inoperable state...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Delivered

reading Source IP address from HTTP headers through for example X-Forwarded-For

Currently there is a dynamic routing feature to read incoming source IP address and base the routing based on this value. However many organizations dont support having source IP address hitting the SSP engine servers. Usually the incoming IP addr...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 2 Delivered

High Watermark Report

How about adding the high watermark report back to the web client for 6.3. I have to launch the thick client to be able to run this report.
8 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 2 Delivered