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Passwordless connection to built-in local PostgreSQL

This enhancement should allow to use alternate access options to local PostgreSQL other than locally encrypted password to PostgreSQL user. Proposed solutions include: certificate-based authentication (preferred, if technically feasible) password ...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 5 Future consideration

OpenTelemetry (or ELK) integration for Connect:Direct statistics

Utilizing an infrastructure like Splunk and ELK, one can trivially create dashboards, event monitoring, web hooks etc. These help to understand and analyze the changing requirements, i.e. provide convincing information about your additional licens...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under 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...
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Planned for future release

Update db_optimization_tool.sh to support Oracle and other DB Vendors

In the past IBM provided the db_optimization_tool.sh script with B2B Integrator to facilitate index reorgs with MySQL DBs. Several companies such as my own will only implement vendor scripts for index reorgs. Can IBM update that script and supply it.
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Ensure failover detection ping from SSP PS can be recognized as such in B2B

These pings are causing literally thousands of errors in our C:D logs on B2B every hour - as the C:D server adapter can see the pings hitting the port but recognizes that they are not valid C:D sessions. A recent health check performed by IBM/Sabr...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Future consideration

Sterling Connect:Direct Windows supporting S3 file transfer

Currently, Sterling CD Unix supports file transfers to S3 bucket and however, Sterling CD Windows does not support file transfers to S3 bucket. As CDW doesn't support S3 bucket file transfers, this is causing the teams to proceed with alternative ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 4 Future consideration

Password Vault support for CD web Services

This is to add to CD Web Services integration with Password Vault to avoid storing passwords inside the application. That should include "admin" user as well. Currently CD Web Services allows for cert-based authentication (for API) or user/passwor...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 2 Not under consideration

Documantation for Third Party Licenses

Hi Support, Our client is asking whether C:D 6.2 uses 3rd party components and libraries. As I cannot find any documentation, please provide related information. And I want to propose for this information released based on every CD version for cli...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Documentation 2 Not under consideration

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

Automate db Wizard option

For Windows Servers I think that colud be interesting have and option to automate a DB Wizard. I think that in the past this could be possible, but not now. Because if someone have a problem with postgres database and need to do a DB Wizard correc...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Functionality already exists