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Sterling Connect:Direct

IBM Sterling Connect:Direct Web Services 6.4 Suport for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10.x

Customer is creating a new environment and it's intent is to have the latest version of CDWS and OS. Customer is using RHEL 10.2 but the documentatio (below) states that the version supported is up do 9.x. Customer needs that CDWS supports at leas...

Capability to use Strong Modern Alog to Store password in AUTHFILE

Currently, Connect:Direct for HP NonStop uses an internal password protection mechanism for storing passwords in the AUTHFILE. But the AUTHFILE password protection mechanism is not equivalent to AES-256 or other modern industry-standard cryptograp...
7 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security Submitted

Actions after a file is copied to a Azure Blob

As soon as the file is copied to connect direct and is persisted in a BLOB Object Store in Azure, customer needs to move/copy this file to another path/blob and/or delete this file directly from the cdp as a sysopt or some kind of task, but not us...
10 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability

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...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability Functionality already exists

Externalizing initparm.cfg configuration Using ConfigMaps and Secrets

In IBM Connect:Direct containerized deployments running on OpenShift, the initparm.cfg file is generated exclusively during the installation phase and is not designed for dynamic updates. As a result, configuring or modifying integrations with clo...
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration Future consideration

Support for Arbitrary User ID in IBM Connect:Direct Container Images

Modify the Connect:Direct container image to enable running it with a random UID. OpenShift Security Context Constraints (SCCs) assign random user IDs at runtime while maintaining group ID 0 (root group) for security purposes. This security model...
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability

Secure + log archive/cleanup

Currently the Connect Direct Secure + logs for CDW and CDU are added to the log directory on a daily basis. However, there isn't a built-in archive or cleanup utility. While these files are usually small, admins may want to either limit the number...
29 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration Future consideration

CDU Containers - secure+ netmap sync

When userNetmapConfigmap is set to true, then the netmap entries from ConfigMap are appended to the corresponding configuration files. However, there is no netmap sync done in Secure+. This request is to have sync netmap run in Secure+ (spcli.sh) ...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability Future consideration

CDU Containers - netmap.check

The installation of CDU image has netmap.check disabled by default. This request is to have the netmap.check enabled by default or at least provide an option in values.yaml to have it enabled during deployment :netmap.check=y:\
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability Not under consideration

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...
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability Under review