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

    Automate the generation and delivery of a daily EDI activity report for specific trading partner in CSV/Excel format

    Details of Ask Generate a daily report listing all inbound and outbound EDI messages on daily basis. Currently Customer is downloading report from InflightSearch Output format: CSV/Excel Customer is looking for all columns name which are available...
    1 day ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Needs more information

    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

    Limit Company Dropdown in Modern Inflight to only Customer Type = Customer Values for IBMers

    The Company dropdown in Modern Inflight needs to only show Customer Type = Customer values for IBMers users. Currently non-customer types are showing in the list as well and it makes the list too long
    30 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Under review

    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.
    26 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.
    25 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

    Provide ProcessID as top-level field in the InFlight search screen

    We would prefer to have the 'Process ID' displayed as a top-level field on the InFlight search screen, instead of being hidden under the 'Business Fields' section.
    12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

    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

    Request to Implement FLAG-Based InFlight Data Filters

    InFlight data filters rely on Sender, Receiver, and Doctype information to display documents to users. This system works well for successful documents. However, if a failure occurs before the metadata (Sender, Receiver, Doctype) is resolved, those...
    over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Not under consideration

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