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Sterling Connect:Direct

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Implement Secure UDP for Connect Direct File Agent

Our internal security standards want all traffic to be encrypted. Currently, File Agent uses standard UDP (SNMP) to send messages to Control Center. The goal is to have this traffic encrypted. We are being told that in a couple years the PCI DSS s...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Future consideration

osa.rest.url Parameter needs to be able to handle multiple url's

Currently the osa.rest.url can only have one url. The Control Center Director may have multiple event processors. If the event processor (EP's) url that is referenced in the osa.rest.url parameter is down, then those events will not get to the oth...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 0 Future consideration

Passwordless connection to built-in local PostgreSQL

This enhancement should allow to use alternate access options to local PostgreSQL other than locally encrypted password to PostgreSQL user. Proposed solutions include: certificate-based authentication (preferred, if technically feasable) password ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Future consideration

Connect:Direct Client Identification by the Connect:Direct Server

Connect:Direct, although a peer to peer MFT tool, uses a client - server model as it's underlying architecture. With a client submitting a job to the C:D server, we cannot identify the client server with the current state of affairs if the C:D ser...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

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...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

Connect:Direct with ability to connect to IBM Cloud Object Storage using API key and store files on COS

The request is mainly for providing capability in Connect:Direct for reading and writing files from IBM Cloud Object Storage and specifically by using API key while connecting to IBM COS from Connect:Direct.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

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...
about 4 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 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 1 Future consideration

Added support of Windows 2019 for SterlingConnectDirectFTPPlus-Window

Currently, The SterlingConnectDirectFTPPlus-Window is supported until Windows 2012 Server. There is a plan to introduce support for Windows 2019 early next year, and I would like to request support as soon as possible.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 4 Future consideration

File Agent Rule Definition Panel: Capability to use the same arguments in the "process name" field as in "process arguments"

We would like to create a very dynamic approach for the definition of file agent rules using the "monitor subdirecctory feature" and a model for subdirectory structures containing the cdp process file name.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration