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Simple silent upgrade for Connect Direct Web Services

According to IBM Support, for Connect Direct Web Services software, SILENT UPGRADE option requires to provide few additional parameters to silentInstall.properties file (e.g. SSL_PORT, POSTGRESQL_PORT, POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD) in comparison to INTERAC...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

ITX output validation

ITX has option to validation the input file against schema by using the Schema-validation Option on the input card. Same can be disabled by choosing Well-formed. This option is not available for output file that is generated by the map. It would b...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 4 Functionality already exists

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

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

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

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

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

WTX should not crash when a resource value is too large.

Although the limits in resource values is documented, it is still possible to enter too long a value in a mrn file. This crashes the studio when running a map, even if the faulty resource is not used by the map. The resource registry tool should a...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration