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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...
PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...

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Provide the ability to create custom sponsor user types

Provide a way for a sponsor admin to define custom sponsor user types, beyond the current sponsor admin, LOB and standard users. For the various permissions, there should be a way to indicate what that role can do with each one (nothing, read only...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Permission/Roles 0 Not under consideration

PEM Should notify sponsor when an email is bounced back.

Some Partners email servers are not receiving PEM emails and are likely bouncing them back. PEM should let the sponsors know if the Trading Partner did not receive the email.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

Make ECHDE ciphers available for Selection in Connect Direct for IBM i

Current only RSA ciphers are available on Connect Direct for IBM in version 3.8. RSA ciphers are not considered deprecated due to ROBOT vulnerability.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 5 Not under consideration

SSP - Disable TLS1.0

SSLv3 is disabled by default in SSP in the java.security file with the following line of code. We have attempted to add TLS1 to disable TLS1.0 only and we were not successful. Adding TSL1 to the list of algorithms disabled all versions of TLS not ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Allow CD netmap in SSP multiple hosts/IP addresses under the same s-node name

Allow multiple hosts/IP addresses per CD node on SSP netmap. Currently in SSP v343 product, CD node and its address are 1:1 mapping. We currently have 4 CD server adapters on backend SBI 2 node cluster. These SBI CDSA all share the same CD node na...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

MQ notifications on CX

When notifications are sent using HTTP, as you only have one HTTP server to send the notification you cannot do any load balancing between multiple nodes. If HTTP server answers too slowly due to a large load, HTTP response code can be sent before...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Performance 0 Not under consideration

Enchance Connect:Direct for OS390 to support PDS to PDSE object-type dataset transfer

Connect:Direct cannot perform PDS to PDSE object-type dataset COPY.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Request Connect:Direct to support file path / file name that includes double byte characters.

Request Connect:Direct to support file path / file name that includes double byte characters.Since we need get the file with Simplified Chinese path and name from headquarter frequently.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 1 Not under consideration

automated deployment script cdinstall a always uses Secure+

I'm using cdinstall_a script to install/update C:D on UNIX and LINUX I need a command line parameter that disables Secure+ installation resp. checking for Secure+ during upgrade
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Unique Variable for Connect:Direct Windows

During heavy load it happens that Connect:Direct processes submitted at the same time produce identical timestamp values that are used for target filenames.Also the %PRAND variable in Connect:Direct Windows returns the same value within the same m...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Not under consideration