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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 22, 2023

Need SFG to ignore the case for user name

We want the clients ability to connect to SFG using an userid not worrying about case, I.e., say in SFG the user id is called DTCCTEST  we want the user to be able to use any case dtcctest or DTCCTEST or DTCCTest etc and SFG to be able to allow the user to connection. We understand currenty SFG/SI is case sensitive for both user name and password but we have a requirement for client to connect to SFG using mixed case user names- can you provide a solution for this.

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    Mark Allen
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    Aug 24, 2023

    Thank you for taking the time to provide your ideas to IBM. We truly value our relationship with you and appreciate your willingness to share details about your experience, your recommendations, and ideas.

    IBM has evaluated the request and has determined that it cannot be implemented at this time or does not align with our current strategy or roadmap.


    Adding this feature would weaken our overall security posture in the product and goes against industry best practices and IBM's security guidance. Customers who enable this would become more vulnerable to brute force attacks and this is not something we would want to encourage customers to use. Some customers do security audits on the software they deploy and a flag that enables this behavior would be seen as a vulnerability; the majority of customers would opt to not use this feature at all giving it limited value to the broader market.