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Usability

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Wildcard Copy to and from Cloud Object Stores

With many customers now moving to the cloud, sending receiving multiple files at a time from the object store is a mandatory requirement for many of our customers and without this support, they are preferring using S3 copy / data sync.
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Delivered

Using the MS Edge UI make the previous and next buttons static, or duplicate them at the end of the page to save scrolling up the page, having reached the bottom, to click 'next'.

MS Edge UI for Sterling CD. I the display screens for Partners for example, the left and right (previous and next) symbols < and > scroll off the screen when navigating to the bottom of the list. One has then required to scroll back to the t...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Delivered

The Edge UI, when viewing the details of a partner node where the Alt-comm outbound display contains 'long text', it will obliterate the Alt-Comm Information title and display further along the screen.

MS Edge UI for Sterling CD. The Alt-com outbound (display, not edit) obliterates the Alt Communication Information title and values if the Alt Communication outbound contains ‘long text’. It should wrap around the long text into it’s own field.
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Delivered

Allow the validation of data in the Edge UI to ignore spaces between entries rather than issuing an error message indicating that the data is incorrect

It is useful because it is often better to use spaces after a comma to aid readability. This is relevant for the Alt Communication Information and Alt-com outbound where the validation regards a space after the comma separating out more than one e...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Delivered

Stop the default 10 rows of data in the Edge UI returning to the default after choosing another value to display more rows.

If will be useful to anyone using the UI interface where it will save them having to choose another value again after selecting it previously when returning to the 'front' screen/display.
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 Delivered

Provide an option to view the screens using the MS Edge (Java) User Interface (IU) in a 'COMPACT' format to reduce the large amount of white space currently on the screen.

It would be very useful for anyone using the Java UI for Sterling Connect Direct to see more information at once instead of scrolling up and down just to see one piece of information.It would be especially useful using the 'STATISTICS' enquiry bec...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Delivered

Docker Image for Sterling Connect:Direct

Almost all IBM integration tools (Datapower,IIB, MQ, WAS) has docker image. I got to know there is no Docker image for Connect:Direct.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 14 Delivered

Increase the size of Default_config.json in CDFA 6.3

have observed in the wild (namely, banking sector customer support scenario), that when the default_config.json is larger than 1MB, integrated FA fails to either import the new configuration, save new config or reopen the configuration for editing...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 Delivered

Sterling File Agent support required for AWS S3 buckets

As Enterprise is moving towards AWS cloud, support to watch S3 bucket will be required for business.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 6 Delivered

Add "receive" functionality to the Transfer a File option when using Connect Direct Web Services (CDWS)

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over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Delivered