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Allow Concurrent Access to FileAgent rules. if not lock the access until rules are applied

Integrated file Agent allows concurrent access for multiple users which mean rules or config can be overwritten. Enhancement request is to either Allow safe concurrent access where user wont trip on each other rules If that is not possible, at...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability Under review

Support Arbitrary UIDs in IBM Connect:Direct Web Services Container Images

Modify the IBM Connect:Direct Web Services (CDWS) container image to support execution under an arbitrary (random) User ID (UID). This will enable seamless, out-of-the-box deployment via Helm charts in highly secure, restricted Kubernetes and Open...
11 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability Under review

PasswordExit caching

To improve performance on high-traffic systems, we propose implementing a password caching option within Connect:Direct's PasswordExit functionality. Instead of fetching a password from the integrated vault for every connection, Connect:Direct wil...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance Under review

Convert Stand Along File Agent checkpoint file to Integrated File Agent (IFA) checkpoint file

As part of the upgrade and/or transition from Stand Alone File Agent (SAFA) to Integrated File Agent (IFA), there should be a way to convert the checkpoint file. This will help prevent older files which may be in the watched directories from being...
12 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade Under review

Support initparm.cfg using RuntimeDirectory and PIDFile per systemd service definition

best practice for RHEL is to use SELinux and systemd for services; and use standard /run/appname folder for runtime files, as specified in service file service RunTimeDirectory statement. /run/* path is writable under default SELinux policies for ...
17 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration Under review

Multiple integrated C:D file agent instances on Windows

When using the integrated file agent on a C:D hub to access multiple file shares the service account may need to be a member of multiple groups, each of which may have multiple sub-groups, causing the user’s token, which includes all group securit...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration Under review