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CDWS: certificate-based authentication to C:D nodes

currently in CDWS Web-GUI user-logon screen it's only possible to login to a C:D node by providing USER-ID + PWD. e.g. https://cdws:9443/cdws-ui/login certificate-based authentication is only available for REST clients according to the documentati...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Planned for future release

CDWS - Connect Direct Web Services - missing milliseconds value in selectstatistics

In CDWS - Connect Direct Web Services - missing milliseconds value in selectstatistics CDWS endpoint: /cdwebconsole/svc/selectstatistics Example: CD Unix sel stat command there is a millisecond value: EVENT RECORD Record Id => SSTR Process Nam...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Future consideration

Sharepoint Integration

We are getting a lot of requests to transfer files directly to a sharepoint site using connect direct
10 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Functionality already exists

Allowing command line editing of the CD File Agent configuration

There is a need within the Treasury to be able to script password changes to Connect Direct File Agents. Currently there is no documented way to accomplish this outside of using the GUI.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Allow for Connect Direct service account to be non-interactive

For Windows servers we need the Connect Direct service account to be non-interactive (Per Windows functionality, the service account needs to perform a logging event to retrieve the properties (access/grants/rights) that the user has. For financia...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

CD Requestor for Connect Direct UNIX

There needs to be a way within a Connect Direct UNIX environment to validate a process script without having to copy it on a Windows system and using CD Requestor there. It would be great if CD Requestor or something similar was to be implemented ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

FileAgent - Windows .ser file cleartext

Have the Default_Config.ser or other .ser files clear text or similar.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

CDWS - login for protocol wording

The label for selecting the connection information currently listed as 'Protocol' should be changed to something more descriptive such as “Cipher Protocol” and instead of defaulting to “TCPIP” it should say “NONE”. Having “TCPIP” in there is just ...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Future consideration

Setting date parameter in the filename

My company send hundreds of reports to our customers on a daily basis. When trying to schedule this within ConnectDirect we found we were unable to set the filename mask to use a date other then today. All of our reports are dated yesterday, as th...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 Not under consideration

To avoid partial files in distributed systems

If the transfer destination is Windows or Linux, ConnectDirect doesn’t work with temporary files. So, CD starts to write the filename with definitive filename. So, if the transfer fails in the COPY step due to insufficient space or network issue, ...
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Needs more information