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Sterling Connect:Direct

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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...
1 day ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Give Integrated File Agent (IFA) the ability to point to a load balancer

Today IFA can only point to C:D on the same server. If it could use a load balancer, the workload could be distributed among multiple CD servers. It would also be nice to add HA support: if one IFA goes down, another one could pick up the work
about 2 hours ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Under review

Direct connector from ICC to ServiceNow

ICC generates SNMP traps and an intermediate tool captures it and then generates ticket on ServiceNow. This gives less control on how the tickets are generated on an incident management tool. Also, if there is a direct connector, we may also get r...
2 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 0 Submitted

Maintenance mode in ICC

Maintenance mode in ICC - currently we do have a functionality to put servers in some maintenance mode ,so that it does not create alerts at that point but logs every other detail . At present, we either have to turn down the server or shut down I...
2 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 0 Submitted

To install Connect:Direct on Kubernetes using OpenShift Restricted SCC

When operating in Connect Direct for Unix operating in Standard User Mode, the SCC allows the following capabilities and SETUID and SETGID requires Privilege Escalation. The customer request the Privilege Escalation to be false. The product should...
10 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Under review

Use temporary filename during file transfert on Unix and Windows

We use Connect Direct to transfert files between several systems to Open system and use IWA (IBM Workload Automation) with file watcher on target system to start automaticlly scripts when a file arrive. It work fine with small files but sometime w...
6 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Submitted

Remove old STATARCH logs

Hello, We've detected that the STATARCH ConnectDirect logs are never deleted; only the work logs are compromised, converting them to STATARCH.gz. Over time, the STATARCH files accumulate and fill the filesystem, and we need to delete them manually...
19 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Submitted

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
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Future consideration

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.
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 6 Needs more information

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...