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Export Wizard Command Line should have resource tag option

The export/import wizard command line does not have all the options as the GUI. The command line is used if there is a need to export large amount of objects. Doing large volume export in the GUI can lead to timeouts. In general, the command line ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Table admin_audit should log all SSH profile changes

Today, SI admin_audit table does not log any SSH profile changes. Requesting to including logging for SSH profile updates, deletions, and creates for auditing purposes.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Add Description field to API for Windows netmap add

The API in Connect:Direct Web Services does not allow for a 'Description' field when using the API for netmap adds. For Windows, it requires a separate API to accomplish this. The API for UNIX netmap adds has the Description field, so having the f...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Connect Direct UNIX: msgfile.cfg and idx

It doesn't make sense to me that the msgfile.cfg located in cdunix/ndm/cfg/<node_name> is a hard link to the one located in cdunix/ndm/cfg. Why not just have all of the cfg files located in cdunix/ndm/cfg/<node_name>? Obviously, you'd ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 3 Not under consideration

Make ECHDE ciphers available for Selection in Connect Direct for IBM i

Current only RSA ciphers are available on Connect Direct for IBM in version 3.8. RSA ciphers are not considered deprecated due to ROBOT vulnerability.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 5 Not under consideration

Removal of Outer join query in WORKFLOW_CONTEXT Table

The below SQL query is one of the important one to get output from DB Statistics report. However, from what we can see, we are not sure why the 2nd join with WORKFLOW_CONTEXT (WC2) is needed (see the yellow-highlight in the attached screenshot). I...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Needs more information

Support for Type=simple startup method in systemd for Connect Direct

The systemd is the default system manager on RHEL 8. Connect Direct should support service startup through systemd using Type=simple startup method. User can use Type=forking with external (custom) startup script but this requires to create additi...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Modify statarch.sh to Delete compressed stats files after "x" amount of days

Can code be added to the statarch.sh script so that after "x" amount of days the compressed stats files are purged/deleted?
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Connect:Direct Sudo Backup/Restore

We install C:D via cdinstall as a user account currently working with C:D for UNIX 4.2. This user account has sudo access to run etc/cdcust so we can perform configurations requiring root privilege. This is great for fresh install and ok for upgra...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration

Audit Log for File Agent

Please add an audit log to Connect Direct File Agent. Preferably, this audit log would track all changes made to a File Agent configuration. This would include all items on the File Agent tab to include watched directories, etc. It would also incl...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration