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Sterling Connect:Direct

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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...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 5 Needs more information

OpenTelemetry (or ELK) integration for Connect:Direct statistics

Utilizing an infrastructure like Splunk and ELK, one can trivially create dashboards, event monitoring, web hooks etc. These help to understand and analyze the changing requirements, i.e. provide convincing information about your additional licens...
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration

Add Certificate Expiration Date to the list of fields logged for a partner certificate CERT= log event

Currently when a partner connects to our Connect:Direct server and negotiates a successful SecurePlus TLS connection, we can see other details of their X.509 certificate CERT= field like Common Name, Locality, State, Country, Serial Number and Fin...
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 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 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 0 Future consideration

Unified Management of Connect Direct & Integrated File Agent

The current process to start/stop Connect Direct (CD) Integrated File Agent (IFA) requires a user to manually edit the init.parm settings each time they start/stop CD. The user has to manually edit the "cdfa.enable" parameter to "y" or "n" to sign...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

User Permission in Registry manipulierbar

Hallo, bei einem ConnectDirect Penetration-Test ist folgendes kritisiert worden: Die Berechtigungen, welche in Connect:Direct unter Functional Authorities vergeben wurden, waren in der Registry in Klartext gespeichert. Beispielsweise ist hier zu s...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Mask or Don't Include Passwords In Connect Direct Process Scripts that have been built in Connect Direct Web Services or Connect Direct Browser UI

Currently when a user builds a process in CDWS or CD Browser UI, the password is in plain text if a pnode/snode ID is used with password. This is a security vulnerability and should be addressed. We realize that there is no way to stop a user from...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

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 feasible) password ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 4 Future consideration

Add TEXT/BINARY mode marker to Connect Direct log file

Current version of Connect Direct does not log the information if transmission was made in TEXT or BINARY mode. This enhancement is to add clear information about used mode (TEXT/BINARY) to the log in CTRC record
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 3 Planned for future release

FileAgent - Windows .ser file cleartext

Have the Default_Config.ser or other .ser files clear text or similar.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration