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Stand Alone File Agent - Do Path Match

Reference TS011100108. It is my understanding that enhancements have been done with Integrated File Agent, but the same enhancements have not been made to stand alone File Agent. One such enhancement, is to do path matching. With stand alone File ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Allow users to reload documents with a status "available" that have not been picked up in more than 24 hours.

This will provide users the ability to pick up documents that have exhausted the number retries allowed. Today, the only way to fix is by opening a ticket with support to mark the documents as "picked up" so that the user can then reload them to t...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 1 Not under consideration

File Agent Rule Definition Panel: Capability to use the same arguments in the "process name" field as in "process arguments"

We would like to create a very dynamic approach for the definition of file agent rules using the "monitor subdirecctory feature" and a model for subdirectory structures containing the cdp process file name.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

C:D Unix Web Interface needs some adjustability for user convenience.

The ability to adjust default settings when using the C:D Unix Web Interface is needed. Current defaults when browsing statistics are lowest-common-denominator, i.e. the viewing of records is limited to 10 by default. Most installations are capabl...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Provide read only access to replica DB

There are many known issues with Data extract agent, and IBM cognos is not an option for many clients. Please provide access to the replica DB, especially some sort of mechanism for analytics applications like Tableau.
about 3 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Not under consideration

Integrate iKeyman with Connect Direct Web Services

IBM Control Center and IBM Connect Direct Secure + both have iKeyman integrated/included with the product. Why isn't this the case for Connect Direct Web Services?
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Support for Oracle Linux

Regarding Connect:Direct(Managed File Transfer), We would like to request getting support for Oracle Linux as soon as possible.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

Requesting sub-sequence number capture to track line item or sub-level groups if required.

Requesting sub-sequence number capture to track line item or sub-level groups if required. Currently we have sequence number generation for every map run. But we encounter request from client to assign sequence number for every line item and updat...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 1 Not under consideration

NFS directory restrictions requires world execute permission

Root squash enabled NFS directories cause an issue with C:D requiring world execute permission on every directory in the path when using the upload/download directory parameters. We want to be able to use upload/download restrictions without havin...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Future consideration

Being able to pull the inbox and outbox view with the filename

We have had several customers ask for the option of the filename being able to be reported and downloaded in the excel file. Customer's cross check IBM VAN with their internal system with filenames.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 1 Functionality already exists