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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Sterling Connect:Direct
Categories Administration & Configuration
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 11, 2024

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Add support for CNAMEs/aliases in the initparms.cfg port.check:\:trusted.addr

As long as the CNAME/alias is addressable, administrators should be able to use it for the port.check:\:trusted.addr parameter. We have AWS ec2 instances that are running CD UNIX behind a load balancer. When a new deployment is run, the DNS name and IP addresses of the loadbalancer may change. Our AWS engineer team configured CNAMES for the loadbalancers. We'd like to be able to use this in the port.check:\:trusted.addr parameter so that we don't have to update the IP's and/or DNS names of the loadbalancer in this parameter each time those values change.

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As long as the CNAME/alias is addressable, administrators should be able to use it for the port.check:\:trusted.addr parameter. We have AWS ec2 instances that are running CD UNIX behind a load balancer. When a new deployment is run, the DNS name and IP addresses of the loadbalancer may change. Our AWS engineer team configured CNAMES for the loadbalancers. We'd like to be able to use this in the port.check:\:trusted.addr parameter so that we don't have to update the IP's and/or DNS names of the loadbalancer in this parameter each time those values change.
  • Guest
    Aug 13, 2025

    It seems that it works as long as the CNAME is resolvable in DNS. Thanks.

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  • Admin
    James Joseph
    Aug 13, 2025

    Thank you for taking the time to provide your ideas to IBM. After discussing with development,we believe, implementing this change does not align with broader roadmap. For that reason I am putting this as "Not under consideration" and we can revisit this once we see interest from more customers (via Voting or Comments)

    I understand that this is not the answer you were expecting however if you have any additional feedback, thoughts or ideas, or if there is anything else I can do, please do not hesitate to reply to this message to continue the conversation. Appreciate your patience.


    Thanks,

    James

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  • Admin
    James Joseph
    May 29, 2024

    @Guest Thank you for being a valuable user. Wildcard support has been added to ignore port check parameter. Can you please have a look and let us know if it solves the ask,

    https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/connect-direct/6.3.0?topic=parameters-port-check

    Does the DNS names of the load balancer changes for new deployment ? Can you please share additional details.


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  • Admin
    James Joseph
    Mar 15, 2024

    Thank you for taking the time to share your ideas to IBM. We truly value our relationship with you and appreciate your efforts and willingness to share details about your experience, your recommendations, and ideas. We will soon review the same in the coming weeks and shall get back with a response.

    Thanks,

    Product Management

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