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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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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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Make Sterling Secure Proxy perform DNS resolution at the connection time

Currently SSP Engines only perform DNS lookups when the configuration is loaded from the configuration manager. This should be changed so that DNS resolution is performed at the time of a connection, when a node's configuration is accessed.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration

SCC needs a configuration reporting function

SCC needs a configuration reporting feature that allows users to determine the way in which objects are configured. Auditing of the application is an incredibly tedious process of checking every screen for every configuration item in the applicati...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Utility option to a view only mode for SSP configuration

Currently the only way to view a configuration (Adapter, netmap,policy, etc ) is to open it for editing. This causes unnecessary riskto accidentally make changes of production configurations.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Key Expiry Notification and Secure+ Enabled

Sterling Secure Proxy Administration of Certificate Expiry and Secure+ Enabled View
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Gentran Server Workbench Needs to Support AIX 7.1

Currently Gentran Workbench 6.2 only supports the UNIX operating system up to AIX 6.2. Since support of AIX 6.2 ends April 2017, the software should be upgraded to allow for this.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Other 0 Planned for future release

Unicode support for SAP IDOC flatfiles

According to the PMR 69372,082,000, Gentran:Server for Windows does not support Unicode for SAP flatfile IDOCs. The enhancement request is to add Unicode support for SAP IDOCs that are created as flatfile format.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Usability 0 Future consideration

support the %U file name convention in process control

support the %U file naming convention in process control. The customer requests supporting %U in the File Name field (under the Command field which contains GDW_Audit_Rpt for example) in Process Control. Customer - Tommy Vinson tvinson@piolaxusa.com
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Other 0 Future consideration

Allow GSW to print to multiple printers in a non-distributed environment

Currently Gentran:Server for Windows only prints to the default printer (in a non-distributed environment). This request would allow the user to select any registered printer to print depending on the type of document to be printed. In addition th...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

SEAS Logging Update - User Account/Key Auth

We have SEAS pointing to an LDAP for authentication. When a user account fails to authenticate via SSH public/private key, the logs show that failure in 'error' mode, but that line does not contain the useraccount that failed to log in. We can onl...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 0 Future consideration

More detailed ERROR logging for SEAS

SEAS logging at ERROR level does not provide sufficient information regarding authentication failures, forcing us to keep logging level at DEBUG which uses an extremely high amount of disk space in order to have sufficient log retention. For examp...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 0 Functionality already exists

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