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Sterling Connect:Direct

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Password Vault support for outgoing Connect Direct for Windows transfers

There is a need to execute Connect Direct transfers securely as a User/Functional ID managed through Password Vault.
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 7 Future consideration

Integrated File Agent - High Availability Option

The Standalone option of File Agent currently offers high availability however, the new Integrated File Agent does not. This would prevent us from fully migrating across to Integrated File Agent across our existing clustered Nodes that utilise thi...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 4 Future consideration

modify the path of the objectstore logs

The main problem is that the logs are stored in the /home of the user executing a transmission that sends files to the cloud (AWS, COS, GC). On Linux servers, if we have an owner user of the ConnectDirect product, we do not have permissions to vie...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Planned for future release

Conditional Runtask/Runjob

We need to execute processes after receiving files from clients, today this process depends on the client adding the command we need to execute in its transmission process. This is done via runtask and runjob and works well, however when we need t...
10 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 6 Needs more information

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...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 4 Not under consideration

Encrypt the password of keystore used in CDFA using certificate based authentication

Current IBM document suggest the password used in certificate based authentication is passed to JVM in plain text. Requirement is to encrypt the keystore password similar to user account password in ser file. Setting up TLS and Certificate-Based U...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Allow process name in a cdp script to be an IFA variable on Windows.

We use Integrated File agent to automate CDP submissions to Connect Direct. And Webservices is used to administer IFA. Since the IFA service is used by multiple business teams we have a CDP process that has a variable for the process name somthing...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 7 Future consideration

C:D UNIX silent update shall honour cdBackupLocation and agentBackupLocation parameters

C:D UNIX silent update does not honour cdBackupLocation and agentBackupLocation parameters when updating
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 7 Future consideration

Accept Encrypted password in the SNODEID=(ID,passwd) for UNIX/Windows CD process

Hi Team, While sending files to mainframe where SPOE use is restricted, we have to provide password in plain text in SNODEID=(ID,passwd). This is a major security concern. Hence we want to know if enhancement can be made so that NDM can accept enc...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 5 Needs more information

Test and certify Connect Direct to use DFS in addition to UNC paths

Connect Direct has not been tested nor certified to use DFS paths instead of UNC paths. The use of DFS paths allows Connect Direct copy configurations to automatically switch to a new device location vs the current use of UNC paths where we would ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

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