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Sterling CCM should support Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) in MS-SQL

A recent Pen Test found hashed system passwords in the 'CC_FILES' table in the SCCM database. The recommendation is to use Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) on the SQL tables. However on raising this with IBM, it was found that SCCM does not support DDM ...
5 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Submitted

Export files in UTF8 format

Gentran exports inbound files in ASCI format. If Netweaver option is select to send the idocs to SAP, the idoc file format has to be in UTF8, this is what IBM suggested. Please add an option in Gentran where files export has an option to select AS...

Gentran notifications

I set up our Gentran Server to send email notifications when translator errors take place. Is there a way to add the ability to set it up in a way that would send these messages only for certain types of EDI transactions (only for 850s and 810s, a...

Allow ICC to authenticate users via group membership (eg. using SEAS)

Typical enterprises do not define individual user accounts and groups to every application, as is currently required for ICC.Instead, user accounts and groups within an LDAP directory (such as Active Directory) are used and the applications recogn...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Planned for future release

Sterling Gentran Director Version 5.5 to be supported on Windows 11

Windows 10 end of life is coming in Sept 2025

Control Center Certificate Expiration Warning Notification

The Certificate Expiration warning rule that comes with Control Center produces a warning if a Connect Direct Secure Plus certificate is going to expire within 60 days. However, there is no known notification for Control Center's certificate which...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 8 Functionality already exists

Make Gentran compatible with Windows 11.

Most companies are moving toward Windows 11 and Gentran is currently not supporting this version.

Support Gentran for iSeries on PowerVS

Support Gentran for iSeries on PowerVS. I see no reason the product shouldn't be supported on a PowerVS (virtual server), which is suppose to be the same as a physical iSeries.
8 months ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Usability 0 Submitted

AD/LDAP authentication in ICC

Currently we are required to use SEAS for LDAP authentication. However, using SEAS as any tool will add more resources to the worker pool. While deploying SEAS does not require a license, there is a cost involved in adding CPU and memory to SEAS P...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Under review

To log unsuccessful user logins to Gentran application into Audit Log

Currently, Gentran does not log the unsuccessful user login attempts into the application Audit Log (ProcAuditLog_tb). Our security team requires us to monitor this activity and respond to this as part of our security process. Without this logging...
10 months ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Security 0 Submitted