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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 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Document all special characters that are not allowed in a Connect:Direct related password (functional auth, soliddb password)

There are some special characters that will not be accepted in Connect:Direct and IBM has not officially identified these for customers. We need this information.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Future consideration

Have C:D log the expiration date of certificates it receives

Today, when C:D calls out to a remote server, it logs some details about the certificate it received. It would be nice if it also logged the expiration date. This would allow us to write, say, a Perl script to scan the logs once a day looking for ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Planned for future release

FileAgent - Windows .ser file cleartext

Have the Default_Config.ser or other .ser files clear text or similar.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Certificate tracking in Secure+

Request that statistics capture serial numbers of SSL certificates exchanged during CD secure+ file transfers between pnode and snode. Serial numbers should be visible in select statistics and CD Requester.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Not under consideration

copy folder's files and sub-folders by C:D for windows

FTP provides a generic feature of copy specified remote server folder's files and sub-folders. For Example,we have the the path /path1/path2 and files 1a,1b in /path1;2a,2b in path2.if we copy /path1 by FTP then we copy all these four fils. But C:...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Not under consideration

copy folder's files and sub-folders by C:D

FTP provides a generic feature of copy specified remote server folder's files and sub-folders. For example,we have the the path /path1/path2 and files 1a,1b in /path1;2a,2b in path2.if we copy /path1 by FTP then we copy all these four fils. But C:...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Not under consideration

listing specified remote server folder's files and sub-folders to C:D for windows client

FTP provides a generic feature of listing specified remote server folder's files and sub-folders to FTP client. But C:D can only realize this function by RUN TASK or RUN JOB invoking many shell scripts, which make clients' application complex. BOC...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Not under consideration

listing specified remote server folder's files and sub-folders to C:D for UNIX client

FTP provides a generic feature of listing specified remote server folder's files and sub-folders to FTP client. But C:D can only realize this function by RUN TASK or RUN JOB invoking many shell scripts, which make clients' application complex. BOC...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Not under consideration

listing specified remote server folder's files and sub-folders to C:D client

FTP provides a generic feature of listing specified remote server folder's files and sub-folders to FTP client. But C:D can only realize this function by RUN TASK or RUN JOB invoking many shell scripts, which make clients' application complex. By ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Not under consideration