Disabling Direct connection tab

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Hi,

We would like to see a feature that makes it possible to disable/grey out the Direct tab in the connection window using a registry key or configuration property.

This idea came up when we wanted to restrict our users to directly access Oracle databases using the IP or hostname, and let them only use the preconfigured tnsnames on the Citrix machine which is not editable due to the file permission thus restricting the users.

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There's no way to do that now, but even if there was, nothing could stop users from just typing/pasting the full TNS string in the TNS tab. For example, you could paste in the following for DB name:

(DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = jdorlon-11gR2)(PORT = 1522))(CONNECT_DATA = (SERVER = DEDICATED)(SERVICE_NAME = ORCL11R2)))