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Workspace Sterling Connect:Direct
Categories APIs & SDKs
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 26, 2018

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Certificate-based authentication support for Connect:Direct RESTful API

See this idea on ideas.ibm.com

Connect:Direct Java API supports certificate-based authentication. IBM Sterling Control Center also can use certificate-based authentication to connect and manage Connect:Direct settings. However latest version of RESTful API supports only user/password authentication. Please add certificate-based authentication for Connect:Direct RESTful API.

What is your industry? Banking
How will this idea be used?

Password/user authentication forces to use one of those solutions: common domain account (AD, LDAP, etc.) with password or maintain separate (e.g. local) users/passwords on each and every server with installed Connect:Direct. From security, compliance and operational standpoint both solutions are not ideal. RESTful API should support at least the same methods of authentication as other tools like Connect:Direct Java API or IBM Sterling Control Center.
  • Admin
    Chris Sanders
    Reply
    |     Aug 19, 2019

    Thank you for your patience as we worked on this enhancement. I'm pleased to announce that this has been provided in C:D Web Services Fix Pack 3 which is available on IBM's Fix Central website. Please download and apply this maintenance which will allow you to start leveraging certificates to authenticate REST API connections.

    Sincerely,

    Chris Sanders

    Connect:Direct Offering Manager

  • Admin
    Chris Sanders
    Reply
    |     Nov 2, 2018

    Thank you for opening this enhancement request with IBM.  I have reviewed it with my team and believe this would be a valuable enhancement to Connect:Direct.  I will accept this request as an uncommitted candidate and we will look to add it to the C:D roadmap moving forward.


    Sincerely,

    Chris Sanders

    Connect:Direct Offering Manager

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