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Sterling Connect:Direct

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    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...
    about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 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...
    8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 2 Future consideration

    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, ...
    about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 1 Under review

    AI-Powered Resource Prediction and Proactive App Health Check

    Connect:Direct to predicts system resource shortages and to proactively monitors application health to prevent performance degradation and file transfer failures before they occur. By analyzing historical patterns and real-time telemetry across CP...
    about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 1 Future consideration

    AI-Powered Anomaly Detection and Intelligent Recommendations

    CD to have AI-driven anomaly detection and intelligent recommendations to help enterprises proactively identify irregularities in mission-critical data transfers and resolve them before they impact business operations.
    about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 1 Future consideration

    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.
    8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

    Password Vault support for outgoing Connect Direct for Windows transfers

    There is a need to execute Connect Direct transfers securely as a User/Functional ID managed through Password Vault.
    almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 9 Future consideration

    specifying also issuing CA name of client authentication certificates in remote nodes

    when I define a certificate common name for client authentication in a Remote Node, there's no possibility to add the name of issuing certificate authority. this means that authentication will be successful for 2 or more different certificates wit...
    about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Future consideration

    Integrated File Agent - High Availability Option

    The Standalone option of File Agent currently offers high availability however, the new Integrated File Agent does not. This would prevent us from fully migrating across to Integrated File Agent across our existing clustered Nodes that utilise thi...
    about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 4 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...
    9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 3 Not under consideration

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