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Propagate configuration via batch

This new idea is to request that Sterling Control Center Director allow configuration propagation, in this case from Connect:Direct (userfile, netmap, InitPams, Secure+), via Batch, and not just via the graphical interface.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 3 Functionality already exists

Suppress password policy error messages from SEAS logs if using Ping for Active Directory.

ERROR LdapPasswordPolicyRetriever - ************** Uknown or unsupported LDAP server detected We use Ping for our Active Directory solution and it was determined that Ping does not return the password policy to SEAS as expected. Therefore, this...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Functionality already exists

Add Link to Web Start Page for Control Center Director API's.

The current Web Start Page has a link for Control Center API's but the choices available only apply to Control Center Monitor and not Control Center Director
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 2 Functionality already exists

Refresh all configurations of managed servers on Control Center

Currently, you can have Control Center check for configuration changes daily at a specific time. However, if an authorized user is making multiple configuration changes to multiple servers, they may want to be able to refresh all of the configurat...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Future consideration

IBM B2B Integrator product needs an ability to capture the SFTP public key of a Client attempting to connect to File Gateway's mailbox.

When a client first attempts to connect to the server their public key should be captured and put in an holding tank. We find that many of our customers are unable to successfully capture and share their public key with out the format of the trans...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 0 Future consideration

Connect:Direct Client Identification by the Connect:Direct Server

Connect:Direct, although a peer to peer MFT tool, uses a client - server model as it's underlying architecture. With a client submitting a job to the C:D server, we cannot identify the client server with the current state of affairs if the C:D ser...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

developement

to add High Water Mark for max API session to be reported into the statistics
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 4 Not under consideration

Dictate cipher order for incoming HTTP transactions

We would like the ability within SSP to be able to dictate cipher order. Right now we have our security team testing our SSP nodes and when they test with the script here: https://testssl.sh/ Using version 2.9.5 we get back that the client can neg...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Group Functional Authorities in Connect Direct UNIX

In Connect Direct Windows, a local or domain group functional authority can be created. However, a similar functionality is not available in CD UNIX.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Configurable clean environment for run tasks

Following the change introduced in v4.1.0.3 of C:D for UNIX (apar IC86881) whereby environment variables are sanitized, IBM should provide a better mechanism for setting environment variables for Run Task and Run Job steps in a secure manner. Alth...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration