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SFG Redelivers files multiple times once Redeliver button is triggered from SFG UI.

Current Behavior: When the SFG operator/user wants to redeliver/replay one/multiple files and ticks on the checkbox before the file name (as shown in Fig1) then this/these files are put into queue for redeliver/replay and are picked-up by the “Fil...

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...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Under review

IBM API GW should have a Option to choose Dynamic/Unique Scope Parameter for every new Token

IBM SCBN's largest Customer have successfully implemented a new Inbound Booking OAUTH2 API connection, which is operating in production with one trading partner as of today. This API connection replaces JMS MQ for transmitting booking interface da...
5 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Planned for future release

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...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 7 Planned for future release

Request for Multi‑Endpoint / Automatic Failover Support for S3 IO Exit in Connect:Direct

During multiple production runs, we observed intermittent S3 transfer failures in Connect:Direct. The failures are inconsistent, and not all transfers are affected. Our internal teams (SRE, Storage/S3, and Network) are continuing deeper analysis, ...
7 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 0 Submitted

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.
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Functionality already exists

Lightweight container option for CDU/CDW

Enterprise customers often have many hundreds of C:D nodes which are installed on application servers so that they can exchange files for/with the applications. This causes challenges for evergreening due to change management requirements with the...
27 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Future consideration

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.
about 2 months 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 ...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 2 Future consideration

Request to extend AS2 user password length to 100 or more chars, and/or enable User Identity Key authentication method for AS2

We are unable to accommodate AS2 connections to CPI due to username and password length limitations. This has a risen during a POC with client Haleon who have already commited to a further 6 connections that we currently can't facilitate. We have ...
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 3 Planned for future release