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Support for Odette protocol (OFTP)

In Brazillian market we have a lot customers that are using file transfer based on OFTP (Odette), so because of that, to have more SSP deployed we need to implement this protocol in the SSP.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration

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...
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 3 Not under consideration

Support service mesh for container deployments

Enterprise customers looking to deploy containers under kubernetes, especially in OpenShift, specify that service mesh must be used, in this case Red Hat's Service Mesh based on istio.

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.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 3 Not under consideration

Include the SA steps as part of run-as-root | C:D installation and upgrade

The customer noticed Connect Direct services are impacted post RHEL 8 upgrade (from previous RHEL versions 7.x) . The SA needs to perform a few steps (outlined in https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-sterling-connectdirect-unix-fails-start-red-ha...
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 2 Functionality already exists

C:D UNIX silent update shall honour cdBackupLocation and agentBackupLocation parameters

C:D UNIX silent update does not honour cdBackupLocation and agentBackupLocation parameters when updating
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 7 Future consideration

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 1 Functionality already exists

Documantation for Third Party Licenses

Hi Support, Our client is asking whether C:D 6.2 uses 3rd party components and libraries. As I cannot find any documentation, please provide related information. And I want to propose for this information released based on every CD version for cli...
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Documentation 2 Not under consideration

Windows版のAWSサポートについて

Window版がAWS環境をサポートしてしない。 Windws版もAWS環境をサポートしてほしい。
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 3 Functionality already exists

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 ...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release