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Stream logs to AWS cloudwatch for better visibility.

For CD UNIX and CDWS Need stats/logs streamed to cloudwatch so they can be monitored and acted upon using our visibility tools. We do not have direct access to the containers for checking logs and rely upon automated solutions to monitor activity ...
3 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Submitted

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...
16 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Submitted

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.
16 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Submitted

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...
16 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Submitted

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.
16 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Future consideration

Connect:Direct Helm chart support for topologySpreadConstraints

Need support in CD helm chart values.yaml for setting topologySpreadConstraints for the kubernetes PodTopologySpread plugin. This option would enable better distribute of multiple CD pods across availability zones in AWS EKS. I cannot use pod anti...
11 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Submitted

Remove old STATARCH logs

Hello, We've detected that the STATARCH ConnectDirect logs are never deleted; only the work logs are compromised, converting them to STATARCH.gz. Over time, the STATARCH files accumulate and fill the filesystem, and we need to delete them manually...
2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

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.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Planned for future release

Automate db Wizard option

For Windows Servers I think that colud be interesting have and option to automate a DB Wizard. I think that in the past this could be possible, but not now. Because if someone have a problem with postgres database and need to do a DB Wizard correc...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

Give Integrated File Agent (IFA) the ability to point to a load balancer

Today IFA can only point to C:D on the same server. If it could use a load balancer, the workload could be distributed among multiple CD servers. It would also be nice to add HA support: if one IFA goes down, another one could pick up the work
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration