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Sterling Connect:Direct

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Protect or encrypt or sign all Audit records to protect or capture changes

Audit functions in CD are not consistently recorded in an immutable form so that attempts to alter them are inhibited. Many configurations in UNIX CD are not audited at all because the configurations are in plain text files with no tracking. All c...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under 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...
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

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...
11 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3

CDWS - Connect Direct Web Services - missing milliseconds value in selectstatistics

In CDWS - Connect Direct Web Services - missing milliseconds value in selectstatistics CDWS endpoint: /cdwebconsole/svc/selectstatistics Example: CD Unix sel stat command there is a millisecond value: EVENT RECORD Record Id => SSTR Process Nam...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Future consideration

CDWS - certificate-based authentication - CLIENT certificate differentiation

We use standard connection path for certificate-based authentication: CLIENT (for example curl command) -> CDWS (CD Web Services) -> CD (Connect Direct) Let's assume that: CLIENT uses client certificate with CNAME=cert1 CDWS server uses cert...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Add time zone to Connect Direct logs

Add time zone information to Connect Direct logs. Log file should present the datetime/timestamp in unambiguous fashion.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Automatic Control of Sessions between the client and partners to avoid Wait Sessions

If the client has in netmap configuration session limit defined and the partner has in their netmap configuration session limit different from the client, it will leave the process in wait and sometimes depending on the volume, Connect:Direct will...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 2 Not under consideration

Add detailed software version to .swidtag file

Currently the .swidtag contains version in V.R.M format so it is missing the exact Fix Level and iFix version. For example: version 6.1.0.2_iFix012 for Windows in the .swidtag contains version="6.1.0" and not the full 6.1.0.2_iFix012 (or 6.1.0.2.0...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Simple silent upgrade for Connect Direct Web Services

According to IBM Support, for Connect Direct Web Services software, SILENT UPGRADE option requires to provide few additional parameters to silentInstall.properties file (e.g. SSL_PORT, POSTGRESQL_PORT, POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD) in comparison to INTERAC...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

Enable use of wildcards in the Watched directories list of File Agent

Currently one can only define a list of directories in CDFA. Each of this directory must be explicitely defined and hence cannot contain wildcards. The "Monitor sub-directories" option can be activated but this can result, in case of a complex dir...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 2 Not under consideration