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Sterling Connect:Direct

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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...
13 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.
13 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 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...
2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 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...
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration

We have refresh netmap in Mainframe Connect Direct and its not available in Linux connect direct

We had an issue with connect direct process, In the middle of file transfer client brought down the connect direct in primary server and brought up in the secondary. Since the process was interrupted and its keep retrying the primary server. Its n...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 5 Future consideration

Need Connect Direct supported on IBM's own ppc64le architecture in the OpenShift environment.

As the industry is moving to containerization, and IBM is pushing hard to sell their Cloud Paks, we are hoping that they can see the importance of supporting their own software on their own products they are pushing. We are starting to do much con...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

Remove the need of 'Log on locally' permission for user accounts in Connect:Direct Windows

Remove the need of 'Log on locally' permission for user accounts in Connect:Direct Windows. In our organization providing service accounts with 'Log on locally' permission is picked as a Non-standard security configuration and deviating from our s...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Not under consideration

Red Hat Linux clustering/HA support

A number of clients ask about about HA solutions and clustering support for Connect:Direct with Red Hat Linux. I've had a search around, but only found the usual (old) docs on HA support with AIX/Solaris/HP-UX/Windows. I was trying to find somethi...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Documentation 1 Not under consideration

RPM for automated installation

We need a RPM installation package for Connect:Direct to simple deploy in our Cloud enviroment. The RPM must inform all dependencies for a automated instalation process (like Puppet).
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Request for support running Connect:Direct Windows in the CLOUD with new MS Server and SQL

We would like to deploy our C:D Windows into the Cloud using Google Cloud for one instance and Microsoft Azure for another. We would like to see certification for running C:D Windows in those environments as well as supporting MS Server 2016 and M...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 3 Functionality already exists