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Sterling Connect:Direct

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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...
17 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 1 Under review

Update Sterling Connect:Direct OpenVMS and SSL versions

Upgrade Sterling Connect:Direct OpenVMS and SSL versions in Sterling's product development environment OpenVMS V8.4-2L3 SSL VSI I64VMS SSL31 V3.1-4 VSI I64VMS SSL3 V3.0-15 VSI I64VMS SSL111 V1.1-1W VSI I64VMS SSL1 V1.0-2UA
5 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

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

S3 support for Linux on Power.

I would like to kindly request that S3 support be extended to IBM Sterling Connect:Direct versions running on Power systems. Many of our clients use Power platforms and are in need of this feature to meet their integration requirements.

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...
11 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.
11 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...
11 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.
11 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Future consideration

Connect Direct File Agent 1.4.0.3-SterlingConnectDirectFileAgent-iFix012 upgrade on Window 2012 upgrade failing when userID is already a part of Admin group

Being a part of admin group, user was not able to upgrade while trying to upgrade CDFA 1.4.0.3 iFix012. Now suggestion is to add this User as a designated admin user of window box. This addition of user as admin is not allowed because this practic...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Under review

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...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 3 Future consideration