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Sterling Connect:Direct

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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
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Allow process name in a cdp script to be an IFA variable on Windows.

We use Integrated File agent to automate CDP submissions to Connect Direct. And Webservices is used to administer IFA. Since the IFA service is used by multiple business teams we have a CDP process that has a variable for the process name somthing...
11 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 7 Future consideration

Automate db Wizard option

For Windows Servers I think that colud be interesting have and option to automate a DB Wizard. I think that in the past this could be possible, but not now. Because if someone have a problem with postgres database and need to do a DB Wizard correc...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

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

Add Secure Plus statistics to the Microsoft Windows Event Logging Facility

Our organization is requiring that all Connect Direct statistics be sent to Splunk. However, it seems that Secure Plus statistics are not captured. I am aware of the Secure Plus logs that are created and we could probably get those sent to Splunk....
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 4 Needs more information

Windows版のAWSサポートについて

Window版がAWS環境をサポートしてしない。 Windws版もAWS環境をサポートしてほしい。
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 3 Functionality already exists

modify the path of the objectstore logs

The main problem is that the logs are stored in the /home of the user executing a transmission that sends files to the cloud (AWS, COS, GC). On Linux servers, if we have an owner user of the ConnectDirect product, we do not have permissions to vie...
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Planned for future release

Support for SHA-3 cryptographic algorithms

to support the below emerging cryptographic algorithmsSHA-3, including ALL variants listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik: i/SHA-3#Instances
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 0 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
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Future consideration

OpenTelemetry (or ELK) integration for Connect:Direct statistics

Utilizing an infrastructure like Splunk and ELK, one can trivially create dashboards, event monitoring, web hooks etc. These help to understand and analyze the changing requirements, i.e. provide convincing information about your additional licens...
11 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration