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Make the version info in the banner of the CLI commands (direct, ndmcli, ...) & GUIs consult a file in the install tree

We have received several security findings because CD gives version details that will allow hackers info on how to hack the software.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 3 Not under consideration

Allow administrator to disable specific adapters

We provide a transformation API to service to users - users can call existing maps or upload maps. Maps could be written such that they access local files on the API server either by using input / output cards or GET and PUT functions. the API s...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 1 Not under consideration

Ability to rename a windows server nodename or add an additional "alias" node name of sorts

In our environment we came up with the decision to use an alias node naming convention, where our customers create an alias address for a Connect Direct server i.e alias-name.domain.com. We take the alias-name part and use that as the Connect Dire...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Allow for search on File Names (src, dest) in Unix / Linux

This is a great functionality and already present in CD for Windows. Can we please get the same functionality in Unix/Linux
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Functionality already exists

SLES 15 on z support for Direct Connect

Requested by SLES team for client Evertec
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration

Add support to MQ Adaptor to segment large payloads as multiple Grouped Logical Messages based on a supplied size limit

Currently the MQ Input Adaptor allows for multiple Logically Grouped Messages to be retrieved from the Queue as a single Payload using the -GRP2 option. This enhancement would make it possible to do the same on the Output. It would also allow for ...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 1 Not under consideration

PGP support part of OpenPGP adapter

Currently OpenPGP adapter supports GPG but not PGP, We request to enable support for pgp part of OpenPGP adapter. also we need to have a way to encrypt data in-memory / In-flight instead of writing plain text into disk and then encrypting.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Not under consideration

Better way to extract user info related to users setup under Functional Authorities to show their level of access in easily view able report for AUDIT reasons

For PCI Audits we have to confirm user info on who has access to our C:D in Functional Authorities and what their level of access is GENUSR or ADMIN, currently the export user config dumps all this info for users in Functional Authorities as well ...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Connect:Direct Application Interface for Java (CDAIJ) method for identifying a certificate that already exists in Secure+

Venafi Trust Protection Platform has built-in support for automating the lifecycle of certificates and keys for Connect:Direct Secure+ which it does using CDAIJ. Currently it is possible to determine that a certificate already exists in Secure+ be...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

Giving signal to indicate file transfer completed

If a file is trasffered from A to B, normally our customers need a way to confirm whether file transfer is completed. In China, customers will adopt 2 ways, one is creating another signal file, for example, if the transfer a file named a.txt, they...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration