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Sterling Connect:Direct

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Add TLS 1.3 Support to Connect:Direct for HPE Nonstop Platform

It was mentioned in HPE NonStop Forum that TLSv1.3 will be coming out later 2019 year. It was also mentioned by HPE that TLSv1.0 is a degraded security protocol and that HPE NonStop Client Applications running on X86 and Itanium Platform need to m...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 4

Modify statarch.sh to Delete compressed stats files after "x" amount of days

Can code be added to the statarch.sh script so that after "x" amount of days the compressed stats files are purged/deleted?
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Connect:Direct Sudo Backup/Restore

We install C:D via cdinstall as a user account currently working with C:D for UNIX 4.2. This user account has sudo access to run etc/cdcust so we can perform configurations requiring root privilege. This is great for fresh install and ok for upgra...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration

Audit Log for File Agent

Please add an audit log to Connect Direct File Agent. Preferably, this audit log would track all changes made to a File Agent configuration. This would include all items on the File Agent tab to include watched directories, etc. It would also incl...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Document all special characters that are not allowed in a Connect:Direct related password (functional auth, soliddb password)

There are some special characters that will not be accepted in Connect:Direct and IBM has not officially identified these for customers. We need this information.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 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
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 0 Future consideration

New parameter CD_ADMIN_GROUPID in CD_SRVR.INI

Currently silent installation for Windows allows to provide CD_ADMIN_USERID in CD_SRVR.INI. The enhancement is to add new parameter CD_ADMIN_GROUPID that would allow to provide Group Name as CD Administrator Group.
11 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Needs more information

CDWS: certificate-based authentication to C:D nodes

currently in CDWS Web-GUI user-logon screen it's only possible to login to a C:D node by providing USER-ID + PWD. e.g. https://cdws:9443/cdws-ui/login certificate-based authentication is only available for REST clients according to the documentati...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Planned for future release

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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

CDWebServices to allow separate WebInterface and RestAPI installations

Allow more individualized and specialized architecture implementations of CDWS by making separate component (or making them selectable/optional) installations for both the Web interface and the RestAPI components.Look into including the RestAPI's ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release