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Sterling Connect:Direct

IBM Sterling Connect:Direct Web Services 6.4 Suport for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10.x

Customer is creating a new environment and it's intent is to have the latest version of CDWS and OS. Customer is using RHEL 10.2 but the documentatio (below) states that the version supported is up do 9.x. Customer needs that CDWS supports at leas...

Support Arbitrary UIDs in IBM Connect:Direct Web Services Container Images

Modify the IBM Connect:Direct Web Services (CDWS) container image to support execution under an arbitrary (random) User ID (UID). This will enable seamless, out-of-the-box deployment via Helm charts in highly secure, restricted Kubernetes and Open...
19 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Under review

Actions after a file is copied to a Azure Blob

As soon as the file is copied to connect direct and is persisted in a BLOB Object Store in Azure, customer needs to move/copy this file to another path/blob and/or delete this file directly from the cdp as a sysopt or some kind of task, but not us...
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 9

Externalizing initparm.cfg configuration Using ConfigMaps and Secrets

In IBM Connect:Direct containerized deployments running on OpenShift, the initparm.cfg file is generated exclusively during the installation phase and is not designed for dynamic updates. As a result, configuring or modifying integrations with clo...
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Convert Stand Along File Agent checkpoint file to Integrated File Agent (IFA) checkpoint file

As part of the upgrade and/or transition from Stand Alone File Agent (SAFA) to Integrated File Agent (IFA), there should be a way to convert the checkpoint file. This will help prevent older files which may be in the watched directories from being...
20 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Under review

CDU Containers - secure+ netmap sync

When userNetmapConfigmap is set to true, then the netmap entries from ConfigMap are appended to the corresponding configuration files. However, there is no netmap sync done in Secure+. This request is to have sync netmap run in Secure+ (spcli.sh) ...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Future consideration

CDU Containers - netmap.check

The installation of CDU image has netmap.check disabled by default. This request is to have the netmap.check enabled by default or at least provide an option in values.yaml to have it enabled during deployment :netmap.check=y:\
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Support for Arbitrary User ID in IBM Connect:Direct Container Images

Modify the Connect:Direct container image to enable running it with a random UID. OpenShift Security Context Constraints (SCCs) assign random user IDs at runtime while maintaining group ID 0 (root group) for security purposes. This security model...
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3

Windows 2025 Support for CDW and CDWS 6.3 and 6.4

I can't speak for all shops, but it is difficult to manage supported Windows versions of CDW and CDWS with different support versions of Windows Server. Our shop is offering VMs with either Windows Server 2022 or 2025. For longevity purposes, I'd ...
25 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 4 Functionality already exists

Support initparm.cfg using RuntimeDirectory and PIDFile per systemd service definition

best practice for RHEL is to use SELinux and systemd for services; and use standard /run/appname folder for runtime files, as specified in service file service RunTimeDirectory statement. /run/* path is writable under default SELinux policies for ...
25 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Under review