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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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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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Support for AIX 7.2 for Gentran Server for Unix

Gentran Server for Unix 6.2 needs to be certified to run on AIX 7.2
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration

Extended Rule - GOTO and Call Features

Hello, Gentran Server for Windows is great, but we need a few new tools for the extended rules. 1- We need a GOTO statement. 2- We need to be able to call a saved rule from within an extended rule. Sure, we can copy paste the same code in each map...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Single UserID bind to multiple Identity for myFilegateway monitoring

Request to allow single UserID bind to multiple Identity for myFilegateway monitoring
almost 7 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

SFG/SI users changing password with SEAS

There is presently no way to for a myfilegateway user to change their password if Sterling External Authenticator is used. Which seems odd because SFG can talk to SEA and validate an SSO token. There needs to be a feature to allow users to change ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 0 Functionality already exists

SEAS RFE to make generic authentication more robust

According to the SEAS L3 team this is basically working as designed. The Generic authentication do come with limitation, your user will be mapped to 1 user, in your case, this is admin user.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

SEAS CRL and use of cached CRL

Enable SEAS to be configured in the UI to allow the cached CRL to be used after the refresh interval has expired. In the current setup, unchecking 'Reject expired CRL' does so, but also fails authentications at the end of the refresh interval.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

SEAS to allow different passphrase for the KEYCERT and Keystore and Trustore

SEAS has to allow different passphrase for the KEYCERT and Keystore and Trustore. When submitting a CSR to Symantec CA a certificate passphrase has to be setup. Currently it MUST match Keystore and Trustore passphrase or certificate import and/or ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / 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

OpenLDAP support - Force password change on File Gateway Logon

We use OpenLDAP for password authentication of our external customers. Spoke with IBM developers (listed in PMR - Naru Manda) and was told that when Sterling was written because OpenLDAP did not have a password policy at the time, that no hook was...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 1 Needs more information

Admin User ID Creation Automation specifically for SEAS.

System : SEASActor: User needing automated Admin User id on-boarding. SEAS presently we have to use Java Thick client to log in and create Admin users. As part of the firm-wide initiative they need the Admin users on-boarding/off-boarding to be au...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

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