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Installation & Upgrade

We request product support for C: D on IBM i on PowerVS.

We are seriously considering running IBM i on IBM cloud, and the lack of product support for C:D running on IBM i on PowerVS become a major barrier. I think that the behavior of IBM i on PowerVS is the same as physical server, so please support C...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade Functionality already exists

Connect:Direct Sudo Backup/Restore

We install C:D via cdinstall as a user account currently working with C:D for UNIX 4.2. This user account has sudo access to run etc/cdcust so we can perform configurations requiring root privilege. This is great for fresh install and ok for upgra...
over 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade Future consideration

CDWS in Containers - certificate.finger.print parameter

Connect Direct Web Services for containers should allow to setup the certificate.finger.print parameter before deployment. Currently CDWS requires to start the deployment, then setup the certificate.finger.print value and restart the deployment. H...

New parameter CD_ADMIN_GROUPID in CD_SRVR.INI

Currently silent installation for Windows allows to provide CD_ADMIN_USERID in CD_SRVR.INI. The enhancement is to add new parameter CD_ADMIN_GROUPID that would allow to provide Group Name as CD Administrator Group.
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade Not under consideration

CDWebServices to allow separate WebInterface and RestAPI installations

Allow more individualized and specialized architecture implementations of CDWS by making separate component (or making them selectable/optional) installations for both the Web interface and the RestAPI components.Look into including the RestAPI's ...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade Planned for future release

automated deployment script cdinstall a always uses Secure+

I'm using cdinstall_a script to install/update C:D on UNIX and LINUX I need a command line parameter that disables Secure+ installation resp. checking for Secure+ during upgrade
over 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade Not under consideration

Simple silent upgrade for Connect Direct Web Services

According to IBM Support, for Connect Direct Web Services software, SILENT UPGRADE option requires to provide few additional parameters to silentInstall.properties file (e.g. SSL_PORT, POSTGRESQL_PORT, POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD) in comparison to INTERAC...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade Planned for future release

Connect Direct File Agent 1.4.0.3-SterlingConnectDirectFileAgent-iFix012 upgrade on Window 2012 upgrade failing when userID is already a part of Admin group

Being a part of admin group, user was not able to upgrade while trying to upgrade CDFA 1.4.0.3 iFix012. Now suggestion is to add this User as a designated admin user of window box. This addition of user as admin is not allowed because this practic...
12 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade Not under consideration

CDWS in Containers - additional options accessible before the deployment

Connect Direct Web Services for containers should allow to have more control before the deployment. We need to have the following parameters delivered upfront from values.yaml to setup in OpenShift environment, what would speed up the deployment a...
2 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade Submitted

CDWS in Containers - disable GUI access option accessible before the deployment

Connect Direct Web Services for containers should allow to disable GUI access (and leave the RESTful API access only) before the deployment. Currently there is no such an option. We need to have this parameter delivered upfront from values.yaml to...
2 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade Submitted