Features and Enhancements

IBM Sterling Connect:Direct® for Microsoft Windows version 6.1 and its related software have the following features and enhancements:

FixPack 2 (v6.1.0.2)

New Features and Enhancements
To install this software, you should go to the Fix Central website and install the latest available fix pack. With this fix pack, support for configurable Password Exit feature is extended, which will eliminate the need to store the passwords. For more information on initialization parameters, refer to Changing Initialization Parameters and CD_SRVR.INI Parameter Values. Note: You are responsible for configuring the password vault software securely. For more information, refer to Password Exit. An option to enable and disable the feature from User Authority, Group Authority and Proxy is also provided.

New Features and Enhancements

To install this software, you should go to the Fix Central website and install the latest available fix pack.

With this fix pack, support for configurable Password Exit feature is extended, which will eliminate the need to store the passwords. For more information on initialization parameters, refer to Changing Initialization Parameters and CD_SRVR.INI Parameter Values.
Note: You are responsible for configuring the password vault software securely. For more information, refer to Password Exit.
An option to enable and disable the feature from User Authority, Group Authority and Proxy is also provided.

FixPack 1 (v6.1.0.1)

New Features and Enhancements
To install this software, you should go to the Fix Central website and install the latest available fix pack. IBM Connect:Direct for Windows introduces support for installing new Connect:Direct servers from IBM Control Center Director. For more information see, IBM Sterling Control Center Director Support.

Base Release (v6.1)

New Features and Enhancements
To install this software, you should go to the Passport Advantage website, and follow instructions described to complete the download. With this release Connect:Direct for Microsoft Windows introduces support to cache certificate validation responses from External Authentication Server when it interfaces External Authentication Server during an SSL/TLS session. This minimizes the overhead associated with requesting certificate validation from External Authentication Server, thus eliminating the need for Connect:Direct Secure Plus to query External Authentication Server each time. For related documents see. For related documents see: Parameters File>.SEAS Server Enable Caching SEAS certificate validation response via Connect:Direct Secure Plus Admin Tool Enable Caching SEAS certificate validation response via Connect:Direct Secure Plus CLI Support for TLS v1.3 for Connect:Direct for Microsoft Windows introduced to secure communication sessions with traders partners. For more information see, Secure Plus Option Implementation Guide. This release makes impersonation optional, allowing processes to be executed under the same Service account that Connect:Direct for Windows is running. To enable this feature, go to: User Proxies > Directories> select Allow process to run using Service Account. In User Function Authorities, the setting is available on the Main panel. Functional Authorities Users Main panel > select Allow process to run using Service Account For more information, see Defining User Authority. Note: If impersonation is disabled, the account under which Connect:Direct runs (Connect:Direct’s Service Account) must have appropriate access to the source files and destination folders used when Connect:Direct transfers files. Local functional authority type template is now updated to include a new Operator user type. An Operator user has Read-only permissions to view configuration files and monitor file transfers but not modify, delete or submit a process. For more information see, About Local Functional Authorities. Note: To support this functionality both, IBM® Connect:Direct Requester and Connect:Direct for Microsoft Windows server must be upgraded to fix pack v6.0.0.2 or above. Support for UDT for Connect:Direct for Microsoft Windows has been discontinued.

New Features and Enhancements

To install this software, you should go to the Passport Advantage website, and follow instructions described to complete the download.

With this release Connect:Direct for Microsoft Windows introduces support to cache certificate validation responses from External Authentication Server when it interfaces External Authentication Server during an SSL/TLS session. This minimizes the overhead associated with requesting certificate validation from External Authentication Server, thus eliminating the need for Connect:Direct Secure Plus to query External Authentication Server each time. For related documents see. For related documents see:

Support for TLS v1.3 for Connect:Direct for Microsoft Windows introduced to secure communication sessions with traders partners. For more information see, Secure Plus Option Implementation Guide.
This release makes impersonation optional, allowing processes to be executed under the same Service account that Connect:Direct for Windows is running. To enable this feature, go to:
- User Proxies > Directories> select Allow process to run using Service Account. In User Function Authorities, the setting is available on the Main panel.
- Functional Authorities Users Main panel > select Allow process to run using Service Account
For more information, see Defining User Authority.
Note: If impersonation is disabled, the account under which Connect:Direct runs (Connect:Direct’s Service Account) must have appropriate access to the source files and destination folders used when Connect:Direct transfers files.

Local functional authority type template is now updated to include a new Operator user type. An Operator user has Read-only permissions to view configuration files and monitor file transfers but not modify, delete or submit a process. For more information see, About Local Functional Authorities.

Note: To support this functionality both, IBM® Connect:Direct Requester and Connect:Direct for Microsoft Windows server must be upgraded to fix pack v6.0.0.2 or above.
Support for UDT for Connect:Direct for Microsoft Windows has been discontinued.

Default installation folder has changed:

C:\Program Files\IBM\Connect Direct v6.1.0