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Integrated File Agent - High Availability Option

The Standalone option of File Agent currently offers high availability however, the new Integrated File Agent does not. This would prevent us from fully migrating across to Integrated File Agent across our existing clustered Nodes that utilise thi...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 4 Future 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

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

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...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Store more than 10 data fields

Often we have scenarios where SFG Solution uses external database tables. These tables can have any number of columns. When PEM activities are customized to collect data from sponsor/partner for the table and if the number of columns is more than ...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Planned for future release

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.
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 7 Not under consideration

Export and Import Secure Plus Parameters - Connect Direct UNIX and Connect Direct Windows

To my knowledge, there is not a method of exporting and importing Secure + parameters from one server to another.
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 9 Future consideration

Extra Cols in Table on UI Dialog

Table on UI Dialogs can have a max of 10 columns. Sometimes more than 10 columns are required to collect data from sponsors/partners. Please extend the number of max columns a table can have.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Planned for future release

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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Support Additional methods of smtp authentication

PEM currently only supports basic authentication for SMTP. ( user id, password ). At most, it does allow you to select between smtp and smtps. However, smtp providers have been moving away from basic authentication for some time. PEM does not allo...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 1 Future consideration