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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...
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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Increase Key Exchange Security

We have a merchant who can't complete connectivity to SSP SFTP because they don't support the Key Exchange we currently have available. Their preference would be to use these kex protocols:ecdh-sha2-nistp256 ephemeral-ephemeral elliptic curve Diff...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Delivered

Need for Sterling Secure Proxy to Support IPv6

Need for Sterling Secure Proxy to Support IPv6
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Delivered

Suppress load balancer health check pings for Configuration Manager Dashboard

We have Active- Passive Configuration Manager in our implementations. Administrators connect to Configuration Manager via Load Balancer URL. This would allow the administrators not to worry which configuration manager server they connect to.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered

Support for Windows 2012 R2

Windows 2012 R2 should be add Gentran:Server system requirements.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Installation & Upgrade 0 Delivered

SEAS CRL to go through proxy connections

Enable SEAS to use a proxy connection when going out to check the CRL in order to avoid production incidents when an IP behind the CRL URL changes suddenly. Application server sits in a DMZ behind a firewall.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 1 Delivered

SCC to support SNMPv3

We implemented IBM Sterling Commerce as our standard file transfer service. Currently, our Control Center is sending traps using SNMPv2. Our primary interest is in being able to receive and send SNMPv3 traps as v2 comes with a lot security vulnera...

Sterling Control Center to handle all events for Sterling Secure Proxy Configuration Manager

System : SCCActor is SSP CM / Websphere MQ Presently Sterling Control Center (SCC) event monitoring from Sterling Secure Proxy Configuration Manager (SSPCM) via Websphere MQ only works on few alerts, We need all events coming from SSPCM to Websphe...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Delivered

Customizing user web interface.

We want customize user web interface with some predifined templates, to set by default for a user and/or roles. Goal is to set columns in a predefined order, and remove the unwanted ones.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Delivered

Have the User ID in SB2Bi / SFG / MyFG case-insensitive

Currently the User Id information of a SB2Bi / SFG / MyFG User is case-sensitive. This means that when creating the user with myUserId as the UserID, the authentication will only be possible by entering myUserId (and not myuserid or MYUSERID which...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Delivered

S+ installation: auto-fill parmfile passphrase

There is no need to fill in a passphrase that will never be typed again. The installation process should automagically create a passphrase instead.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Delivered