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Updating Password automatically in the FileAgent

Hello, We are using CD version : IBM_CD_V4.3_UNIX_Linux_Red_Hat. We need to install CD and FileAgent for our multiple internal BU servers. As you know - we need to use username and password for FileAgent. Please note that we are using common...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

Modify statarch.sh to Delete compressed stats files after "x" amount of days

Can code be added to the statarch.sh script so that after "x" amount of days the compressed stats files are purged/deleted?
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Add dedicated Safe Name and Object Name fields to Password Exit tab in Functional Authorities in Connect Direct for Windows

Currently Password Exit tab in Functional Authorities in Connect Direct for Windows allows to configure Application ID and Policy ID only. This idea is to add other fields - Safe Name, Object Name and Secure+ Label name into these settings in orde...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Provide "replace/override" capabilities when using the CDConfig Tool for Map.cfg and Usr.cfg import

Currently the Connect:Direct CDConfig tool does NOT support the "replace/override" functionality when importing Netmap or User entries. It currently will update existing Initparms, but for some reason it doesn't update existing Netmap or User entr...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Protect or encrypt or sign all Audit records to protect or capture changes

Audit functions in CD are not consistently recorded in an immutable form so that attempts to alter them are inhibited. Many configurations in UNIX CD are not audited at all because the configurations are in plain text files with no tracking. All c...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Support for Type=simple startup method in systemd for Connect Direct

The systemd is the default system manager on RHEL 8. Connect Direct should support service startup through systemd using Type=simple startup method. User can use Type=forking with external (custom) startup script but this requires to create additi...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

snode.work.path parameter for IBM Connect:Direct for Windows

The "snode.work.path" parameter is available in IBM Connect:Direct for UNIX while it is not in IBM Connect:Direct for Windows. The idea is to have similar functionality in Windows version. It will allow to share SNODE work files among nodes in a l...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Add a parameter that contains a list of IP / DNS entries that will be ignored by CD

There are different applications in an enterprise network that may poll the CD server and client ports: Load balancer that are doing TCP checks to ensure the CD Service is running, security audit softwares that are checking if the port opened on a...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 5 Planned for future release

Adding in additional triggers for alt.comm.outbound

The idea behind this is to allow alt.comm.outbound to be triggered for other situations. Such as TCP timeouts after a session had been initiated.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Purging of SolidDB transaction logs

SOLIDDB transactional logs are not getting purged automcatically after the checkpoint interval. We beleive this shoudl be part of the product. This request is to ehnace the product which will take care of purging the Solid DB transaction logs. Reg...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

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