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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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Add the HIPAA 834 318 and 277DRA transaction to the HIPAA pack

The state of New York is requiring insurance carriers to use the 834X318 and 277DRA transactions. These transactions are currently not in the HIPAA pack. This will cause compliance checking not to work and the mapping type tree is not available fo...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 5 Not under consideration

ConnectDirect to throw message when it gets hung.

If ConnectDirect is hung there is no way to tell if it is, there must be a heartbeat check to confirm if NDM is healthy.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

To authenticate users/applications based on the Certificates rather than using userid and passwords

Currently, Any user trying to access NDM has to logon with userid and password either manually or via batch jobs. In order to avoid clear text passwords, Users can be authenticated based on certificates.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Not under consideration

CX/ZOS Possibility to swap the logging so it is not increasing indefinitely

In CX/ZOS, the SYSLOG and other ddnames are increasing indefinitely. If they are Sysouts, which is convenient, this can cause Spool problems. It would be great to have the possibility to swap them, as Z/OS offers it for the ddnames JESMSGLG and JE...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

SEARCHUP() & SEARCHDOWN() functions should return all matched records, Instead of first match

Currently SEARCHUP() and SEARCHDOWN() functions return only single object. We need the functionality for these functions to return all matched records instead of one similar to how EXTRACT() function returns data. Using EXTRACT() on large data set...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

IP + User_Id whitelisting

SSP supports IP or User_Id whitelisting only but not a combo ( IP + User_id). We need to ability to whitelist IPs for a given User_id. This way, if a rouge employee left the firm but carries the user_id credential, he can't login from other locati...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Future consideration

Customer data is stored in the dedicated instance of the mongodb

Telstra Security Operations - Risk Assessment Rating Medium Solution hypervisor and storage is not dedicated to Telstra. The application and VM's and a separate instance of mongo db are dedicated to Telstra but the hypervisor and IBM cloud object ...
almost 4 years ago in Supply Chain Insights / Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Customer specific encryption keys for cloud object storage (Resolution Rooms)

Telstra Security Operations - Risk Assessment Rating Medium Data at rest is encrypted using a shared encryption key. Mitigation Recommendation:IBM to provide a solution where encryption keys are unique for each customer.
almost 4 years ago in Supply Chain Insights / Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Logging and Monitoring - extend the storage of Application logs to 12 months

Telstra Security Operations - Risk Assessment Rating High Audit logs are not stored for 12 months or sent to Telstra's splunk solution. Infrastructure audit logs are stored for 12 months but application audit logs only stored for 90 days. Mitigati...
almost 4 years ago in Supply Chain Insights / Data Management 1 Planned for future release

API for Group management

There is currently no API to create or manage Groups. There should be capability to: Create Group Edit Group (Name, Description) Assign/Unassign Attribute Values
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 2 Planned for future release