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Sterling Connect:Direct

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Certificate-based authentication support for Connect:Direct RESTful API

Connect:Direct Java API supports certificate-based authentication. IBM Sterling Control Center also can use certificate-based authentication to connect and manage Connect:Direct settings. However latest version of RESTful API supports only user/pa...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 2 Delivered

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.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 2 Delivered

allow configurable rows in settings of Integrated File Agent (browser)

settings of Integrated File Agent cdws-ui/setting/fileAgent/viewDirectories rules per page & directories per page setting is 10 by default. Can these BOTH be made configurable so it doesn't reset to 10 each time the page is revisited\reloaded
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Delivered

Add TLS 1.3 Support to Connect:Direct

TLS v1.3 was recently released, and we would like to see it added to Connect:Direct w/Secure+ as an available security option for all platforms that support it.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 5 Delivered

C:D Installation in Google Cloud and ability to write directly to Google Storage

This enhancement is for the ability to write files directly to Google Cloud Storage using Connect Direct from any other connect direct platform. Also, guidance on C:D installation in Google Cloud in general
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 2 Delivered

Support for Windows Server 2022

Would like to request getting support for Windows Server 2022 as soon as possible please.

Increase the size of Default_config.json in CDFA 6.3

have observed in the wild (namely, banking sector customer support scenario), that when the default_config.json is larger than 1MB, integrated FA fails to either import the new configuration, save new config or reopen the configuration for editing...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 Delivered

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...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 4 Delivered

Provide support for S3 compatible storage

While many customers use S3 they may wish to use other vendors and universal support for S3 versus just AWS would be helpful

Add dedicated Safe Name and Object Name fields to Password Exit tab in Functional Authorities in Connect Direct for Windows

Currently Password Exit tab in Functional Authorities in Connect Direct for Windows allows to configure Application ID and Policy ID only. This idea is to add other fields - Safe Name, Object Name and Secure+ Label name into these settings in orde...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered