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Sterling Connect:Direct

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certificate-based authentication support for CDAIJ and CDW

Many customers from banks need to change their OS users' password every 1 or 3 months for all OS according to their security regulation which means all applications or middleware using the old password must change at the same time. For customers, ...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Not under consideration

Connect:Direct Application Interface for Java (CDAIJ) method for identifying a certificate that already exists in Secure+

Venafi Trust Protection Platform has built-in support for automating the lifecycle of certificates and keys for Connect:Direct Secure+ which it does using CDAIJ. Currently it is possible to determine that a certificate already exists in Secure+ be...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

Adding in additional triggers for alt.comm.outbound

The idea behind this is to allow alt.comm.outbound to be triggered for other situations. Such as TCP timeouts after a session had been initiated.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Update SNMP support to v3

Security benefits, as per security issues detailed here: https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA17-156A
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Not under consideration

FileTransfer using connect direct with S3 directly

The ability to support CDU/S3 direct access from on-prem nodes is not present in this release. if connect direct unix directly about to do file transfers with S3 would benefit the business. It would be a game changer in file transfers for cloud.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 1 Not under consideration

Support long connection for large volumes of small files

Our competitor, Tongtech, provide a file transfer tool based on MQ to transfer files and support long connection which means if doesn't need to initiate a new session for each repective files which really lead to a high performance for large volum...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Giving signal to indicate file transfer completed

If a file is trasffered from A to B, normally our customers need a way to confirm whether file transfer is completed. In China, customers will adopt 2 ways, one is creating another signal file, for example, if the transfer a file named a.txt, they...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Transfer folder between C:D nodes

Hope C:D can support transfer the whole folder to anther folder, which include many potential functions such as trasfer folder, whether includes subfolder, filter files via file name rule and create folders in the opposite C:D node. Our local file...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Connect:Direct - Certify SQLServer 2016 Express Edition as a supported database for C:D v.4.7 or v.4.8

Ability to upgrade to the latest software.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration

Need a central management and distribution system for File Agent rule

In China many banks, especially medium and small size ones, adopt shared folder to exchange files amongst different kinds of business systems. Even they decided to adopt a new file transfer tool to exchange files due to security, audit, etc, they ...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 0 Not under consideration

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