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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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Support service mesh for container deployments

Enterprise customers looking to deploy containers under kubernetes, especially in OpenShift, specify that service mesh must be used, in this case Red Hat's Service Mesh based on istio

Support service mesh for container deployments

Enterprise customers looking to deploy containers under kubernetes, especially in OpenShift, specify that service mesh must be used, in this case Red Hat's Service Mesh based on istio
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

Support service mesh for container deployments

Enterprise customers looking to deploy containers under kubernetes, especially in OpenShift, specify that service mesh must be used, in this case Red Hat's Service Mesh based on istio.

Support service mesh for container deployments

This is a mandated requirement for clients deployment in production environments, in this case to support a service mesh by Istio especially the Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh implementation: https://istio.io/latest/about/service-mesh/

Enabel console logging on SSP and SEAS - Container base Deployment

Within SSP & SEAS helm chart Values we do not see any configurable option to have our SSP/SEAS Application level logs to be enable on POD console. For reference We have this option available in SI help chart "logs.enableAppLogOnConsole" this s...
3 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

IBM Control Center - Not finding specific MSGID's

Need IBM Control Center to monitor the following MSG ID's SVTM026I - Session not establishedSVTM505I - Session Retry exceededSVTM105I - A process may be moved to HO HC Currently IBM Control Center is not getting recording these events and we need ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Under review

More predefined time periods to choose from

In the dropdown with predefined time periods in the transaction logs it would be very helpful to have more choises.These are the choises we would find the most useful: 1 hour 4 hours This day (From 12:00AM – 11.59PM, note! Not till ‘now’, the enti...
11 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Future consideration

Support for token authentication

Some of REST APIs for IBM products have token authentication implemented. I.e., call a sign in API to get a token, and then use the token in a HTTP Header for all other API calls. Example Products: IBM Sterling Secure Proxy: https://www.ibm.com/su...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 3 Planned for future release

Enhancement of processing capacity for deferred documents within a specified time window.

As per the IBM development team, HiSPEed currently supports processing up to 6,000 files, with each file typically ranging between 20 to 30 KB. This limitation can lead to bottlenecks when a higher volume of documents is received within a short ti...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration

Sterling Filegateway - Disable the Known host key validations for Outbound sftp connections ( StrictHostKeyChecking=no )

Hello - Checking, for the SFG outbound sftp client connections - if the known host key validations will be turned-off or make them dynamically added. this way we can get rid off the BP's that will fail in the steps for each occurrence when a partn...
over 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 0 Future consideration