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Encrypt the password of keystore used in CDFA using certificate based authentication

Current IBM document suggest the password used in certificate based authentication is passed to JVM in plain text. Requirement is to encrypt the keystore password similar to user account password in ser file. Setting up TLS and Certificate-Based U...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

OpenTelemetry (or ELK) integration for Connect:Direct statistics

Utilizing an infrastructure like Splunk and ELK, one can trivially create dashboards, event monitoring, web hooks etc. These help to understand and analyze the changing requirements, i.e. provide convincing information about your additional licens...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration

Cryptographic function used for TLS certificates storage should use SHA-384 or SHA-512 or POLY-1305

CA Certificates, Key Certificates and Private Keys are stored in key database file cdkeystore.kdb + STH file. In addition software stores the key database password in .keystore file and passphrase to the private key in .password file in C:\Program...
10 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 4 Not under consideration

Unified Management of Connect Direct & Integrated File Agent

The current process to start/stop Connect Direct (CD) Integrated File Agent (IFA) requires a user to manually edit the init.parm settings each time they start/stop CD. The user has to manually edit the "cdfa.enable" parameter to "y" or "n" to sign...
11 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

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.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Sterling Connect:Direct Application Interface for Java support to iSeries C:D version

CDJAI support all other platforms (Windows, Unix, ZOS and Tandem) except iSeries. This limitation restricts users to automate C:D configuration through CDJAI, similar to what we do in other platforms. Now we have to login to iSeries machine to do ...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 3 Not under consideration

Record API.MAX reports in statistics.

Record API.MAX reports in statistics to support CD tunning.
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 3 Not under consideration

Password Vault support for CD web Services

This is to add to CD Web Services integration with Password Vault to avoid storing passwords inside the application. That should include "admin" user as well. Currently CD Web Services allows for cert-based authentication (for API) or user/passwor...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 2 Not under consideration

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.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 3 Not under consideration

FileAgent - Windows .ser file cleartext

Have the Default_Config.ser or other .ser files clear text or similar.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

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