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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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Deny Access/Blacklist for common ID's

Add ability to create and utilize a blacklist in order to quickly block common used id's in penetration scans. While the ID's are not used and access is denied, the login attempts still go through the full authentication attempts which generate ov...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 6 Delivered

Sterling Control Center Monitoring - SFG Reporting

This functionality add a great value to the product itself and also to BNYM. While opening the RFE you may add the additional scenario such as filtering the FG events...if customer does not want some of the OOB FG events then product should provid...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Delivered

Change password capability at ICC web UI

Our banking client in Middle East requests that an non-admin user should be able to change his/her own password at web UI. You can do this via thick client however client wants to have that capability at web UI since it is the roadmap of ICC and m...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Delivered

SSO (Single Sign-On) integration with SCC

Currently in SCC there are two options to manage users' passwords. First one uses SCC internal store of users and passwords, second one uses Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) via IBM Sterling External Authentication Server (SEAS). What ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 2 Delivered

Please provided Win2016 Certification for the Connect:Direct File Agent (CDFA) utility

IBM Connect:Direct File Agent v.1.4 (CDFA) has not yet been officially certified for Win2016 by IBM.IBM Connect:Direct for Windows has been officially certified for Win2016 by IBM in the latest 4.7.0.5 fixpack. As CDFA is a utility that IBM provid...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 2 Delivered

Upgrade Cassandra to 4.0 for Global Mailbox in order to support auditlogs

that would be useful for auditing purposes. PCI-DSS requirements require to audit systems access. All customers working in financial industry would benefit from this.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 0 Delivered

SNC support including X509CERT are required for JALE/JBAPI integration with Google Cloud (GCP) and SAP S4/HANA installations

We are moving our on premise SAP ECC installations to SAP S4/HANA on GCP off-premise. The GCP integrations are requiring SNC (secure socket) as well as certificates via the X509CERT field for security purposes. These fields are not supported in th...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 7 Delivered

For IBM SFG to be able to leverage on Azure Managed SQL service

It would be super if SFG setup in Azure (IAAS) could leverage on Azure Managed SQL service (PAAS) instead of the need to setup MS SQL Server separately as an IAAS instance. The purpose of moving to cloud is to benefit from the need to administer s...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Delivered

Publish SKU attributes as part of IV API's including ATP lookup and ATP publish events

In our ecosystem, we have systems that use alternate SKU identifiers (ex- UPCCode instead of SKU Id). Without the support for cross referencing SKU's between the various item aliases, additional lookup calls will be needed to get the Item id neede...
over 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Delivered

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...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Delivered