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Sterling Connect:Direct

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Allow for Connect Direct service account to be non-interactive

For Windows servers we need the Connect Direct service account to be non-interactive (Per Windows functionality, the service account needs to perform a logging event to retrieve the properties (access/grants/rights) that the user has. For financia...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future 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,...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Password Vault support for CD web Services

This is to add to CD Web Services integration with Password Vault to avoid storing passwords inside the application. That should include "admin" user as well. Currently CD Web Services allows for cert-based authentication (for API) or user/passwor...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 2 Not under consideration

CD Requestor for Connect Direct UNIX

There needs to be a way within a Connect Direct UNIX environment to validate a process script without having to copy it on a Windows system and using CD Requestor there. It would be great if CD Requestor or something similar was to be implemented ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

File Agent: sort capability missing to guarantee files sequence

FA doesn't provide a mechanism to process the files located in a specific folder in a specific order (i.e. file sorted by timestamp, name, size ). There are scenarios where the sequence the Producer Application generates the files must be respecte...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 1 Not under consideration

Supoprt for HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System)

What version of Sterling Connect:Direct Linux/Windows will support Hadoop HDFS? Do you have any release date? I found similar thread at https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=65228 but I didn't see any updates. T...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Single Sign-on (SSO) with SAML or OIDC authentication is required for the Sterling User Interfaces (UIs), including C:D, SSP, SEAS, SFG, SCCM and SCCD. Migration from a legacy LDAP connection to a federated (SAML or OIDC) connection is required for all UIs, by US Federal Agencies.

This is required to comply with US Federal Security requirements mandated to all US Federal Agencies.
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 3

AES-256 encryption for .bin file creation

we understand that when a .bin file is created via lcu.jar it is encrypted with AES-128. We would like to see this encryption increased to AES-256 to satisfy our Security requirements.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

Cryptographic function used for TLS certificates storage should use SHA-384 or SHA-512 or POLY-1305

CA Certificates, Key Certificates and Private Keys are stored in key database file cdkeystore.kdb + STH file. In addition software stores the key database password in .keystore file and passphrase to the private key in .password file in C:\Program...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 4 Not under consideration

We request product support for C: D on IBM i on PowerVS.

We are seriously considering running IBM i on IBM cloud, and the lack of product support for C:D running on IBM i on PowerVS become a major barrier. I think that the behavior of IBM i on PowerVS is the same as physical server, so please support C...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Functionality already exists

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