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Sterling Connect:Direct

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    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...
    almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

    Password Vault support for CD web Services

    This is to add to CD Web Services integration with Password Vault to avoid storing passwords inside the application. That should include "admin" user as well. Currently CD Web Services allows for cert-based authentication (for API) or user/passwor...
    almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 2 Not under consideration

    Certificate Management Automation

    The CA / Browser consortium has voted to reduce the certificate lifetime down to 47 days over the next 2 years. The process to manage certificates in connect:direct is manual. This will become unmanageable to maintain manually.
    10 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 7 Not under consideration

    Allow for Connect Direct service account to be non-interactive

    For Windows servers we need the Connect Direct service account to be non-interactive (Per Windows functionality, the service account needs to perform a logging event to retrieve the properties (access/grants/rights) that the user has. For financia...
    over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

    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...
    over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration

    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

    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.
    almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 3 Not under consideration

    CD Requestor for Connect Direct UNIX

    There needs to be a way within a Connect Direct UNIX environment to validate a process script without having to copy it on a Windows system and using CD Requestor there. It would be great if CD Requestor or something similar was to be implemented ...
    over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under 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...
    12 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Planned for future release

    Include the SA steps as part of run-as-root | C:D installation and upgrade

    The customer noticed Connect Direct services are impacted post RHEL 8 upgrade (from previous RHEL versions 7.x) . The SA needs to perform a few steps (outlined in https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-sterling-connectdirect-unix-fails-start-red-ha...
    6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 2 Functionality already exists

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