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Sterling Connect:Direct

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Slient Installation for Connect:Direct Client Only

Current silent installation only support server and client option. Please add installation option "client only" for silent installation / upgrade.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Connect Direct Unix and Windows: alternate IP addresses, round robin and non-round robin, controls

Many shops have and participate in disaster recovery exercises. We want to indicate that a particular alt comm IP not be used unless we manually update a configuration file or through Control Center. Currently Connect Direct Unix and Windows do no...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 1 Not under consideration

Increase PNUM limit to a much higher value (e.g. 1'000'000'000)

PNUM is actually limited to 99999 for most CD implementations. This is very low and has for effect that pnum can rotate very quickly. ICC is for example relying the grouping of CD events on this Process ID (which is a non sense as it's not unique,...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Improve Transfer Speed between CDU on EC2 instance and S3

We are in the testing staging of using CDU to download file from S3 and push to some other CD Node. However, after we perform testing a large file (GB), we found that the transfer speed is almost three time slower than AWS S3 CP command. We have...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 1 Planned for future release

Updating Password automatically in the FileAgent

Hello, We are using CD version : IBM_CD_V4.3_UNIX_Linux_Red_Hat. We need to install CD and FileAgent for our multiple internal BU servers. As you know - we need to use username and password for FileAgent. Please note that we are using common ld...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

Connect Direct UNIX: Connect Direct Agent stopAgent.sh

Currently root or a user that has sudo access is the only way that the stopAgent.sh can be executed. This needs to be changed so that the installer can stop the Agent without having sudo or root access.
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 1 Future consideration

Connect:Direct ZOS Support for UTF-8 BOM and FB (Fixed Block) format

Cutomer evaluating Connect:Direct on Windows and ZOS feedback that Connect:Direct does not support UTF-8 BOM and VB to FB format. Customer compares C:D to their current MFT solution that already supports this encoding conversions out of box. Custo...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 1 Not under consideration

Enable use of wildcards in the Watched directories list of File Agent

Currently one can only define a list of directories in CDFA. Each of this directory must be explicitely defined and hence cannot contain wildcards. The "Monitor sub-directories" option can be activated but this can result, in case of a complex dir...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 2 Not under consideration

Add cipher support

Need to connect to a wide variety of Customers. TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CCM (0xC0,0x9D)TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CCM (0xC0,0x9E)TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CCM (0xC0,0x9F)TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CCM_8 (0xC0,0xA0)TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CCM_8 (0xC0,0xA1)TLS_D...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

CentOs Support

Installation of C:D on CentOs
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 1 Functionality already exists