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Sterling Connect:Direct

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Setting local permission controls in userfile.cfg for landed files

Connect:Direct (aka NDM) provides great power over sending files to report systems, allowing the potential for running jobs or tasks on a remote system. But receiving system lacks some simple security controls within the usefile.cfg over files lan...
about 23 hours ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Please add support C:D to use S3 Storage for IBM i5os, like is S3 storage support for C:D on Unix platforms.

This is necessary to maintain the competition of platform solutions on the system for solutions on the unix platform. C:D is a multiplatform product so it should offer the same functions on all platforms without restrictions. We need to use transf...

Certificate Management Automation

The CA / Browser consortium has voted to reduce the certificate lifetime down to 47 days over the next 2 years. The process to manage certificates in connect:direct is manual. This will become unmanageable to maintain manually.
11 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 4 Needs more information

User Permission in Registry manipulierbar

Hallo, bei einem ConnectDirect Penetration-Test ist folgendes kritisiert worden: Die Berechtigungen, welche in Connect:Direct unter Functional Authorities vergeben wurden, waren in der Registry in Klartext gespeichert. Beispielsweise ist hier zu s...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

ID logging for added / deleted/ modiifed ID's in User proxy/ Functional Authorities

We need logging to be done as to what ID has been added deleted or modified in connect Direct Proxy users or functional authorities in windows Connect Direct as currently no modification can be seen of users only submitter details are found
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Future consideration

modify the path of the objectstore logs

The main problem is that the logs are stored in the /home of the user executing a transmission that sends files to the cloud (AWS, COS, GC). On Linux servers, if we have an owner user of the ConnectDirect product, we do not have permissions to vie...
2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Planned for future release

Multiple Configuration Support for Integrated File Agent

I don't think Integrated File Agent currently supports or allows multiple File Agent configurations. Having this capability would support organization and separation of work. We currently use Integrated File Agent with our AWS ec2 instances. Havin...
2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 4 Future consideration

Target node alternate communication paths not retried when connected via Sterling Secure Proxy.

There appears to be a design flaw within CD/U when communicating via SSP and target CD node not being reachable via primary path, CD/U initial SSL handshake times out and connection to target CD node not retried by CD/U via ALT.COMM path(s).
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 7 Planned for future release

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
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 7 Future consideration

Accept Encrypted password in the SNODEID=(ID,passwd) for UNIX/Windows CD process

Hi Team, While sending files to mainframe where SPOE use is restricted, we have to provide password in plain text in SNODEID=(ID,passwd). This is a major security concern. Hence we want to know if enhancement can be made so that NDM can accept enc...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 5 Needs more information