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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

Need Connect Direct supported on IBM's own ppc64le architecture in the OpenShift environment.

As the industry is moving to containerization, and IBM is pushing hard to sell their Cloud Paks, we are hoping that they can see the importance of supporting their own software on their own products they are pushing. We are starting to do much con...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

Wildcard Copy to and from Cloud Object Stores

With many customers now moving to the cloud, sending receiving multiple files at a time from the object store is a mandatory requirement for many of our customers and without this support, they are preferring using S3 copy / data sync.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Enable certificate based authentication for CD Tandem

Enable certificate based authentication for CD Tandem. cert auth is only available in unix and windows version. Our orgs have a large tandem nodes that are critical to organisation.
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

Check the Write permission on Destination folder without submitting COPY statement

Hi Team, We are trying out a way if we can check permission on target folder on SNODE, before doing actual transfer. Like we do 'Echo Test" to test if the NDM connectivity is good between 2 NDM nodes. If we can have option in NDM to do 'Echo" test...
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

Add time zone to Connect Direct logs

Add time zone information to Connect Direct logs. Log file should present the datetime/timestamp in unambiguous fashion.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Automatic Control of Sessions between the client and partners to avoid Wait Sessions

If the client has in netmap configuration session limit defined and the partner has in their netmap configuration session limit different from the client, it will leave the process in wait and sometimes depending on the volume, Connect:Direct will...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 2 Not under 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 ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Planned for future release

CDWebServices to allow separate WebInterface and RestAPI installations

Allow more individualized and specialized architecture implementations of CDWS by making separate component (or making them selectable/optional) installations for both the Web interface and the RestAPI components.Look into including the RestAPI's ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 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.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration