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Sterling Connect:Direct Application Interface for Java support to iSeries C:D version

CDJAI support all other platforms (Windows, Unix, ZOS and Tandem) except iSeries. This limitation restricts users to automate C:D configuration through CDJAI, similar to what we do in other platforms. Now we have to login to iSeries machine to do ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 3 Not under consideration

Create the configuration file (bin file) with LCU.bat from an input file

In order to avoid a lot of manual work and administration, we would like to automate the creation of the configuration file (bin file) that is currently done with LCU.bat. For example, with this kind of command: LCU.bat < Config.txt or LCU.bat ...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 2 Functionality already exists

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 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 2 Not under consideration

Connect Direct Web Services - API Method for Connect Direct Version

There is currently no API method available to retrieve or GET the Connect Direct Version using the REST API, although this is available the the CDWS Web Console (see attached image). Can this method be considered?
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 5 Planned for future release

Extend processcontrolcriterias CDWS web service in order to run simple transfers on-the-fly

Currently in CDWS the "processcontrolcriterias" web service allows to run Connect Direct transfers using processFile with path to *.cdp process file which must be present on the server prior to Connect Direct transfer execution. For simple transfe...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

CDWS - certificate-based authentication - CLIENT certificate differentiation

We use standard connection path for certificate-based authentication: CLIENT (for example curl command) -> CDWS (CD Web Services) -> CD (Connect Direct) Let's assume that: CLIENT uses client certificate with CNAME=cert1 CDWS server uses cert...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

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 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Support Open API 3.0 specifications in the Sterling Connect:Direct APIs

My customer would like to have in our product support for Open API 3.0, because most developers are no longer using OpenAPI 2.0 and want to move to OpenAPI 3.0.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

Connect:Direct API Independent From C:D Server

We are attempting to use Control Center to manage our instances of C:D and Control Center connects via the C:D API. Some of C:D instances sit in different datacenters behind a load balancer in an active/inactive state. We would like to be able to ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

Enhance C:D Rest API cdwebconsole/svc/processcontrolcriterias to allow definition of symbolic parameter values

The current approach enables to execute a static/hardcoded locally stored CDP process. This approach is very limited as for example you cannot specify a specific file name in a copy step to be transferred when executing. Therefore please extend th...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

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