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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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Create Upgrade/Migration Process for SSP Engines/CMs

The SSP CM and Engines currently have to be on the same point release to function. This prevents a customer with a large installation base from gradually upgrading their environment. We have one CM with cold fail over and as many as 24 Engines att...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Functionality to correctly support multiple SFTP policies in a netmap

We would like to be able to use several SFTP policy in a single netmap (Adapter) with differret SSH authentication method.It will avoid the usage of several adapapters for each authetication method.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Configuration managment needs to have a schedule and approval process

Changes made in the configuration management interface should require an approval process that could make an external call for validation if needed. This would require a scheduling function as well as an approval process.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 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 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Allow Sterling Secure Proxy to perform URL Redirection for Reverse Proxy

Sterling Secure Proxy on Red Hat Linux version 2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.x86_64 is unable to route to different Outbound Nodes based on the URL that is sent to the proxy. Example (test vs prod at end of url):Incoming URL https:proxy.com:443/rosettanet/te...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Gentran 5.3.1 will not install on Windows 10

We cannot install Gentran Server for Windows on a Windows 10 machine.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Be able to dynamically pass parameters into Stored Procedure on Output side with ODBC map

Currently the Gentran:Server for Windows 5.3.1 integration application has limitation. It has no capability to dynamically pass in parameters into stored procedure to be used on output side for Inbound map.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Support date/time variables in folder names of extraction file mailboxes

We have file system mailboxes that are configured to extract all files sent to a local folder for archiving, e.g. F:\GentranFiles\Outbound. Because of the huge amount of files, we have to archive them by system date, e.g. F:\GentranFiles\Outbound\...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

SAP Extension Classic RFC going away

As of SAP release 7.2, the Classic RFC library will no longer supported. It is being replaced by the Netweaver RFC. The two RFC libraries are not binary compatible at the binary level. That is a program written for the classic RFC will not work wi...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Need unique return code when commpost is unable to open X12 inbound files.

Need unique return code for X12 inbound files unable to be read. Error - unable to compost error opening file. X12 files are received, but commpost unable to read file. No unique return code is given. Return codes are available on errors created w...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Other 0 Future consideration