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Include Finplus 5.0 maps in FinPay PLUS package

As domestic markets increasingly adopt ISO20022 standard, Financial Institutions are challenged to ensure integration of these new maps in their validation architecture. In this context, our customers are asking to include support for Finplus 5.0 ...
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

Include SIX SIC maps in FinPay PLUS package

As domestic markets increasingly adopt ISO20022 standard, Financial Institutions are challenged to ensure integration of these new maps in their validation architecture. In this context, our customers are asking to include support for SIX SIC in F...
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Under review

Encrypt the password of keystore used in CDFA using certificate based authentication

Current IBM document suggest the password used in certificate based authentication is passed to JVM in plain text. Requirement is to encrypt the keystore password similar to user account password in ser file. Setting up TLS and Certificate-Based U...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Sterling Gentran Director Version 5.5 to be supported on Windows 11

Windows 10 end of life is coming in Sept 2025

Certificate Management Automation

The CA / Browser consortium has voted to reduce the certificate lifetime down to 47 days over the next 2 years. The process to manage certificates in connect:direct is manual. This will become unmanageable to maintain manually.
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 7 Not under consideration

Unified Management of Connect Direct & Integrated File Agent

The current process to start/stop Connect Direct (CD) Integrated File Agent (IFA) requires a user to manually edit the init.parm settings each time they start/stop CD. The user has to manually edit the "cdfa.enable" parameter to "y" or "n" to sign...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under 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

Export and Import Secure Plus Parameters - Connect Direct UNIX and Connect Direct Windows

To my knowledge, there is not a method of exporting and importing Secure + parameters from one server to another.
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 9 Future 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...
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Planned for future release

Make Gentran compatible with Windows 11.

Most companies are moving toward Windows 11 and Gentran is currently not supporting this version.