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Log Standards

Some customers has the need to read the logs using some realtime observability tools, such as Prometheus, Splunk. There is some difficulties on integrating those actual logs of Sterling Control Center with the new standards. This request has the g...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Export files in UTF8 format

Gentran exports inbound files in ASCI format. If Netweaver option is select to send the idocs to SAP, the idoc file format has to be in UTF8, this is what IBM suggested. Please add an option in Gentran where files export has an option to select AS...

Gentran notifications

I set up our Gentran Server to send email notifications when translator errors take place. Is there a way to add the ability to set it up in a way that would send these messages only for certain types of EDI transactions (only for 850s and 810s, a...

Sterling Gentran Director Version 5.5 to be supported on Windows 11

Windows 10 end of life is coming in Sept 2025

Set up an alert to trigger when a flow experiences over X failed processes.

Implementing an alert for flows that fail more than three times will allow us to proactively identify and address critical system issues before they impact users or downstream processes, significantly improving our service reliability.
3 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

Add Password Expiration to the Password Policy for Control Center

We need to be able to set a password expiration for Control Center users. It needs to be flexible so that certain users/roles can be set to never expire.

Rest API - General

From Home Depot: Currently, Control Center cannot re-start the adapters unless it is done through the use of scripts. The available mechanism, as of now is, invoking an OS script (when a rule is triggered), and the OS script in-turn can invoke any...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Under review

Make Gentran compatible with Windows 11.

Most companies are moving toward Windows 11 and Gentran is currently not supporting this version.

Add System Business Process from SBI to the BP list in Control Center

The idea is to be able to choose from the drop-down list of BPs to monitor, the processes of the Sterling B2B Integrator system so that ICC is the tool used for this purpose and not have different systems that also work differently with the Alerts...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

User disable option in Control Center Monitor

Dear Team, Greetings of the day!! Requesting to add the user disable feature so that when an user who has not logged in since last one month will be disable by the admin for security reasons. We have user update,edit,delete features in version 6.3...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration