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Improve Transfer Speed between CDU on EC2 instance and S3

We are in the testing staging of using CDU to download file from S3 and push to some other CD Node. However, after we perform testing a large file (GB), we found that the transfer speed is almost three time slower than AWS S3 CP command. We ha...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 1 Planned for future release

Add C:D support for Windows 11

Windows 11 nor Windows Server 2022 is not supported by C:D Windows 6.x series.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Increase RECSIZE to a higher value for version 3.6.02

The data is not able to be transferred for certain transmissions due to record size not large enough. We are requesting to increase the RECSIZE (RUSIZE)value from 8989 to B9B9 so that our LOB customers can transfer files without a size issue.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 3 Planned for future release

CIphers configuration for Connect Direct Web Services

Connect Direct Web Services configuration should allow to limit list of allowed ciphers. Similar functionality is present for protocol configuration under "server.ssl.enabled-protocols”. Support for similar parameter e.g. "server.ssl.enabled-ciphe...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

Fix a bug which IBM support is not accepting as a bug

Problem: Any CD Windows v6 client or Requestor is impacted. When a lower case process name job is submitted, via the v6 client or requestor, the process name is automatically converted to uppercase and the job is submitted. While the same process ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Status to be returned when performing an automatic silent install

When performing an automated silent install/upgrade from the Windows command prompt, instead of the command dropping straight back to the command prompt, certain messages would be returned and at the end of the install/upgrade a return code/status...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration

Tool to monitor cert expiry

We want to put an alerting mechanism to monitor cert expire so we can proactively plan.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

Option to disable Connect Direct Web Services web page

Current version of Connect Direct Web Services software provides two interfaces - RESTful API and webpage GUI access. Software should allow to disable web GUI access.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

codepage translation tracing

Current versions of CDU and CDZ do not track calls to iconv for codepage translation in submitted process, even with max trace level 4. We need to see calls to iconv along with parameters.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration

CDW services should be running as non-system and non-admin user account

Our security assessment team found an issue with 'System' running CDW services by default. Although IBM allows a service account to run CDW services, it requires this account to be a member of local admin group. Either method causes security conce...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 0 Not under consideration