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Sterling Connect:Direct

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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...
about 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Certify NetApp S3 Object Storage with Connect:Direct

Usage of Non-AWS S3 based object storage is increasing with NetApp NAS filers being amongst the leaders in this space.
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Functionality already exists

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.
almost 4 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...
almost 2 years 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...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Functionality already exists

C:D support for Multi Factor Authentication

Incorporate into the C:D security processing to allow for users signing on with multi factor authentication credentials.
about 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Not under consideration

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

Support for SHA-3 cryptographic algorithms

to support the below emerging cryptographic algorithmsSHA-3, including ALL variants listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik: i/SHA-3#Instances
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 0 Future consideration

Sharepoint Integration

We are getting a lot of requests to transfer files directly to a sharepoint site using connect direct
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Functionality already exists

Extend processcontrolcriterias CDWS web service in order to run simple transfers on-the-fly

Currently in CDWS the "processcontrolcriterias" web service allows to run Connect Direct transfers using processFile with path to *.cdp process file which must be present on the server prior to Connect Direct transfer execution. For simple transfe...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release