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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...
8 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Submitted

Databricks connector for SB2Bi

Today, Databricks is a major player in the data industry. The strategic directions of the Group have led to the construction of an Azure Data Lake, and the data management solution implemented to ingest, process, and expose data in this DL is Data...

Support IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for i5/OS run on IBM i 7.6

In April 2025, IBM released version 7.6 of IBM i, the successor to IBM i 7.5.However, we have been informed by the Offering Manager that, at this time, there are no plans to support IBM i 7.6 for IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for i5/OS, which has hi...
2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 7 Planned for future release

Certify NetApp S3 Object Storage with Connect:Direct

Usage of Non-AWS S3 based object storage is increasing with NetApp NAS filers being amongst the leaders in this space.
25 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Functionality already exists

CDWS API for the update Key Certificates with certificate path

Currently The API /cdwebconsole/svc/securepluskeycertificate is looking for "certificateData": "", which needed certificate content to be copied but it would be good if the API allows us to provide the certificate and use it.
24 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 2 Future consideration

API required in CDWS for cfgcheck

Currently, CD UNIX provides the cfgcheck script, which validates the following configuration files: initparm.cfg userfile.cfg netmap.cfg Default_Config.json This script performs validation and reports any configuration issues, including duplicate ...
27 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 2 Future consideration

Accessing Queue Watcher dashboard for each ASI Pod

Currently for Container based deployment of Sterling integrator we are not seeing any provision to access QueueWacther page for each individual ASI POD. If we have multiple ASI Pods and If we access queueWatcher page then it opens up from any of A...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

Improve SPOE update process in containers so that a helm install is not required

Currently, when making an update to the SPOE file, the process requires the file to be pulled in via a helm install. In an enterprise environment, there tend to be limitations on what can be done during business hours as part of normal configurati...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Functionality already exists

Need to have a way to switch EBICS User Roles

We have a current situation where our client has asked us to switch the roles of two EBICS user accounts—from technical to non-technical and vice versa. I'm asking for a way to configure a current EBICS user without having to delete the user accou...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Submitted

Connect:Direct limitation retrieving files from Amazon S3 subdirectories.

Connect:Direct has a known limitation when retrieving files from Amazon S3 subdirectories. If you attempt to retrieve ( GET ) a file located in a specific subfolder within a bucket (e.g., /folder1/file), and the user does not have permission to ac...
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 2 Future consideration