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Sterling Connect:Direct

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

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...
28 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 2 Future consideration

allow configurable rows in settings of Integrated File Agent (browser)

settings of Integrated File Agent cdws-ui/setting/fileAgent/viewDirectories rules per page & directories per page setting is 10 by default. Can these BOTH be made configurable so it doesn't reset to 10 each time the page is revisited\reloaded
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Improve Message ID XCMM005I

Actually to know what user is that who gets the error XCMM005I its necessary explore the logs and see the line before from the next message: STAR=20250527 09:07:23.950|CCOD=8|RECI=XCMM|RECC=CAEV|OSID=3589|TZDI=7200|MSGI=XCMM005I|MSGT=The submit co...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Show IPs from external connection

When the product ConnectDirect recive conection from other servers like GSLB or conections from other servers and it gets for example FMH68 or other, Its interesting konws from which servers its comming this connection, because its imposible deter...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 2 Future consideration

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

To install Connect:Direct on Kubernetes using OpenShift Restricted SCC

When operating in Connect Direct for Unix operating in Standard User Mode, the SCC allows the following capabilities and SETUID and SETGID requires Privilege Escalation. The customer request the Privilege Escalation to be false. The product should...
2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 3 Future consideration

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...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

User Permission in Registry manipulierbar

Hallo, bei einem ConnectDirect Penetration-Test ist folgendes kritisiert worden: Die Berechtigungen, welche in Connect:Direct unter Functional Authorities vergeben wurden, waren in der Registry in Klartext gespeichert. Beispielsweise ist hier zu s...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

ID logging for added / deleted/ modiifed ID's in User proxy/ Functional Authorities

We need logging to be done as to what ID has been added deleted or modified in connect Direct Proxy users or functional authorities in windows Connect Direct as currently no modification can be seen of users only submitter details are found
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Future consideration