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    Setting local permission controls in userfile.cfg for landed files

    Connect:Direct (aka NDM) provides great power over sending files to report systems, allowing the potential for running jobs or tasks on a remote system. But receiving system lacks some simple security controls within the usefile.cfg over files lan...
    10 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

    Please add support C:D to use S3 Storage for IBM i5os, like is S3 storage support for C:D on Unix platforms.

    This is necessary to maintain the competition of platform solutions on the system for solutions on the unix platform. C:D is a multiplatform product so it should offer the same functions on all platforms without restrictions. We need to use transf...
    10 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

    Certificate Management Automation

    The CA / Browser consortium has voted to reduce the certificate lifetime down to 47 days over the next 2 years. The process to manage certificates in connect:direct is manual. This will become unmanageable to maintain manually.
    10 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 7 Not under consideration

    Encrypt the password of keystore used in CDFA using certificate based authentication

    Current IBM document suggest the password used in certificate based authentication is passed to JVM in plain text. Requirement is to encrypt the keystore password similar to user account password in ser file. Setting up TLS and Certificate-Based U...
    over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

    Conditional Runtask/Runjob

    We need to execute processes after receiving files from clients, today this process depends on the client adding the command we need to execute in its transmission process. This is done via runtask and runjob and works well, however when we need t...
    over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 7 Not under consideration

    Add support for CNAMEs/aliases in the initparms.cfg port.check:\:trusted.addr

    As long as the CNAME/alias is addressable, administrators should be able to use it for the port.check:\:trusted.addr parameter. We have AWS ec2 instances that are running CD UNIX behind a load balancer. When a new deployment is run, the DNS name a...
    almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 6 Not under consideration

    Unified Management of Connect Direct & Integrated File Agent

    The current process to start/stop Connect Direct (CD) Integrated File Agent (IFA) requires a user to manually edit the init.parm settings each time they start/stop CD. The user has to manually edit the "cdfa.enable" parameter to "y" or "n" to sign...
    almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

    Use alias/CNAME for the DNS/IP address in a CD netmap

    We have some Connect Direct UNIX for Linux nodes running on AWS ec2 instances. These CD nodes run behind a load balancer. When a new deployment is ran, it is possible for the DNS and IPs of the load balancer may change. Our AWS egineer implemented...
    almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 7 Not under consideration

    To permit use wildcards in netmap

    To permit use wildcards in netmap will be very useful in installations with hundreds of servers with similar naming. Installations are moving to cloud infraestructure and the number of virtual servers are growing up. So you can work today with 20 ...
    over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

    Group system in userfile.cfg (UNIX)

    In an environment with hundreds of users defined in the same userfile.cfg, it would be nice to be able to govern them through a system of groups or profiles to reduce administration time and avoid unnecessary failures.
    almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

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