New Features and Enhancements

IBM Sterling Connect:Direct® for UNIX 6.2 and its related software have the following features and enhancements:

Attention: IBM Sterling Connect:Direct ends support for Oracle Solaris on 30 September 2025. After this date, security fixes for IBM Java on Solaris will no longer be available. The following products are affected:
  • IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for UNIX
  • IBM Sterling Connect:Direct File Agent
  • IBM Sterling Connect:Direct FTP+

FixPack 7 (v6.2.0.7)

New Features or Enhancements
To install this software, you should go to the Fix Central and follow instructions described to complete the download.
Connect:Direct for UNIX has the following features and enhancements:
  • Support for performing pre and post-upgrade actions from Control Center Director has been added to Connect:Direct for UNIX.

FixPack 6 (v6.2.0.6)

New Features or Enhancements
To install this software, you should go to the Fix Central (Traditional Software) or Installing IBM Connect:Direct for UNIX using an IBM Certified Container Software website, and follow instructions described to complete the download.
Connect:Direct for UNIX has the following features and enhancements:
  • IBM Certified Container Software for Connect:Direct for UNIX has been re-certified for next one year. It has been deployed and tested on AWS EKS v1.24
  • The container image has been upgrade to latest UBI base image v8.7.
    Attention:

    The appuser.uid and appuser.gid has been deprecated from this fixpack. It is not recommended to use it. The support of these parameters will be completely removed from v6.3 and onwards.

FixPack 5 (v6.2.0.5)

New Features or Enhancements
To install this software, you should go to the Fix Central (Traditional Software) or Installing IBM Connect:Direct for UNIX using an IBM Certified Container Software website, and follow instructions described to complete the download.
Connect:Direct for UNIX has the following features and enhancements:
  • Connect:Direct for UNIX support for IBM Certified Container Software persistent data storage on NFS with root squash enabled. For more details refer to Creating storage for Data Persistence.
    Attention: The cduser.uid and cduser.gid has been deprecated from this fixpack. It is not recommended to use it. The support of these parameters will be completely removed from v6.3 and onwards.

FixPack 4 (v6.2.0.4)

New Features or Enhancements
To install this software, you should go to the Fix Central website, and follow instructions described to complete the download.
Connect:Direct for UNIX has the following features and enhancements:
  • Connect:Direct for UNIX support for transferring data to and from Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, IBM Cloud Object Storage. This is in addition to the existing support for AWS S3 and S3-compatible Object Stores. For more information, refer to AWS Cloud Overview.

FixPack 3 (v6.2.0.3)

New Features or Enhancements
To install this software, you should go to the Fix Central website, and follow instructions described to complete the download.
Connect:Direct for UNIX has the following features and enhancements:
  • Connect:Direct for UNIX introduces support for Port Check Ignore List (configured in initparms), which would terminate port check connections efficiently from addresses configured under the Ignore List. For more information, refer to Health Check.
    Note: Connect:Direct for UNIX does not write stats for health check connections.

FixPack 2 (v6.2.0.2)

New Features or Enhancements
To install this software, you should go to the Fix Central website, and follow instructions described to complete the download.
Connect:Direct for UNIX has the following features and enhancements:
  • Standalone Docker support will be revoked from this release. It can still be used for versions prior to 6.2.0.2.
  • IBM Certified Container Software has been re-certified for the next year.

  • IBM Certified Container Software (helm chart) supports Integrated File Agent. Use values.yamlconfiguration to enable it inside a pod.

  • Process library feature has been introduced in IBM Certified Container Software.

Base Release (v6.2)

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

Connect:Direct for UNIX has the following features and enhancements:

  • IBM Sterling Integrated File Agent
    • With this release, Connect:Direct for UNIX introduces support for IBM Sterling Integrated File Agent as a component of Connect:Direct UNIX (selectable during installation). Integrated File Agent is simpler to install, configure and operate than its predecessor, Standalone File Agent. Use Connect:Direct Web Services 6.2 UI or later to configure Integrated File Agent. For more information, refer cd.file.agent Record and Integrated File Agent.
    • When Integrated File Agent is installed, if Secure+ .Local record has not already been assigned a key certificate, an automatically generated self-signed certificate is assigned to Secure+'s .Local record. For more information refer Self-signed Certificate for Integrated File Agent.
    • An initparm to specify the location of the directory, which acts as the process library for Integrated File Agent has been added. For more information, refer Sterling Connect:Direct File Agent Overview and Path record.
    • You can upgrade from an existing Standalone File Agent to Integrated File Agent, interactively or silently. For more information, refer Upgrading to Connect:Direct Integrated File Agent.
    • Support for external stat logging has been added for use of Integrated File Agent. For more information, refer External stat logging.
  • SSTA and STOP parameters for API functions (ndmapi_recvresp() or ndmapi_recvresp_c()) have been deprecated and will be removed in the future releases. Use STRT and STPT instead of SSTA and STOP respectively. For more details, refer Receiving Responses Using ndmapi_recvresp() or ndmapi_recvresp_c().
  • OpenShift version has been updated to 4.7.
  • While deploying IBM Connect:Direct for UNIX using an IBM Certified Container Software, Dynamic and Non Dynamic Provisioning are supported while creating storage for data persistence. For more information, refer Creating storage for Data Persistence.
  • zFBA feature is deprecated in Connect:Direct version 6.2.