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Improve performance on SORTUP and SORTDOWN functions

Performance on functions SORTUP and SORTDOWN is dramatically catastrophic when there are "lots" of data to sort (25 min to sort 1 000 000 of numbers). See test case attached. Improving performance of those functions is more that required. New sort...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Delivered

SSP - add support for securing MQ connections

In order to monitor SSP via Control Center, MQ has to be used. SSP and ICC do not support secure connections to MQ. All our connections have to use SSL, therefore we cannot monitor SSP.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 1 Delivered

Increase Key Exchange Security

We have a merchant who can't complete connectivity to SSP SFTP because they don't support the Key Exchange we currently have available. Their preference would be to use these kex protocols:ecdh-sha2-nistp256 ephemeral-ephemeral elliptic curve Diff...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Delivered

Need for Sterling Secure Proxy to Support IPv6

Need for Sterling Secure Proxy to Support IPv6
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Delivered

Suppress load balancer health check pings for Configuration Manager Dashboard

We have Active- Passive Configuration Manager in our implementations. Administrators connect to Configuration Manager via Load Balancer URL. This would allow the administrators not to worry which configuration manager server they connect to.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered

Support for Windows 2012 R2

Windows 2012 R2 should be add Gentran:Server system requirements.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Installation & Upgrade 0 Delivered

SEAS CRL to go through proxy connections

Enable SEAS to use a proxy connection when going out to check the CRL in order to avoid production incidents when an IP behind the CRL URL changes suddenly. Application server sits in a DMZ behind a firewall.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 1 Delivered

Customizing user web interface.

We want customize user web interface with some predifined templates, to set by default for a user and/or roles. Goal is to set columns in a predefined order, and remove the unwanted ones.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Delivered

S+ installation: auto-fill parmfile passphrase

There is no need to fill in a passphrase that will never be typed again. The installation process should automagically create a passphrase instead.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Delivered

Signon from Connect:Direct Fileagent with JCU-File

We have hundreds of fileagents running and every time the passport changes on the target server were Connect:Direct resides we have an enormous effort.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered