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Sterling Connect:Direct

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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...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Future consideration

Support Alma 8

support Alma8 for AWS deployments and open source deployments
12 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 4 Not under consideration

Increase PNUM limit to a much higher value (e.g. 1'000'000'000)

PNUM is actually limited to 99999 for most CD implementations. This is very low and has for effect that pnum can rotate very quickly. ICC is for example relying the grouping of CD events on this Process ID (which is a non sense as it's not unique,...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Record API.MAX reports in statistics.

Record API.MAX reports in statistics to support CD tunning.
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 3 Not under consideration

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...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Connect Direct UNIX: msgfile.cfg and idx

It doesn't make sense to me that the msgfile.cfg located in cdunix/ndm/cfg/<node_name> is a hard link to the one located in cdunix/ndm/cfg. Why not just have all of the cfg files located in cdunix/ndm/cfg/<node_name>? Obviously, you'd ...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 3 Not under consideration

Add TLS1.3 Support for IBM ConnectDirect on HPE NonStop

TLS1.3 is currently adopted most secure way of secure communication and IBM ConnectDirect on HPE NonStop is still not supporting TLS1.3.
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Future consideration

Have C:D log the expiration date of certificates it receives

Today, when C:D calls out to a remote server, it logs some details about the certificate it received. It would be nice if it also logged the expiration date. This would allow us to write, say, a Perl script to scan the logs once a day looking for ...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Planned for future release

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...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Sterling Connect:Direct Windows supporting S3 file transfer

Currently, Sterling CD Unix supports file transfers to S3 bucket and however, Sterling CD Windows does not support file transfers to S3 bucket. As CDW doesn't support S3 bucket file transfers, this is causing the teams to proceed with alternative ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration