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Administration & Configuration

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Cognos using ICC issued certificate

We are required to use certificates issued by Boeing Certificate Authority and not the certificate that is generated by ICC.

Add API for standard, wildcard, and workflow slcs

Currently there aren't any APIs for standard, wildcard, and workflow slcs. Only for simple slcs, which we do not use.

Automation for running the configCC in SCC

As of now we cant run configCC.sh/bat script, we have to enter the host details manually. Even we cant use silent file to provide these information.

SSO (Single Sign-On) integration with SCC

Currently in SCC there are two options to manage users' passwords. First one uses SCC internal store of users and passwords, second one uses Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) via IBM Sterling External Authentication Server (SEAS). What ...

Sterling Control Center Java thick client Admin UI functionality needs to ported over to the web based Admin UI

System : Sterling Control Center (SCC)Actor : MFT Administrators Presently to setup, install and configure SCC, we need to use Java thick client which is a Java WS application connecting on non-standard ports and requiring a Windows jump server to...

Add more SUBMIT traps for Control Center for Connect Direct File Agent

Additional SUBMIT traps have been added to Control Center 6.0.0.1 with Connect Direct File Agent 1.4 iFix021 or higher. While some of these are useful, there still is not one available that tells which File Agent rule was updated.

Control Center 6.1.0.1 - Initiate Shutdown of EP from Web Console

Since much of the functionality is being moved to the Web console, it would be great if an admin could shutdown an event processor (one they're not logged on) and initiate the shutdown. Maybe even a system wide shutdown. The admin and other users ...

Control center needs to capture the events that have State = haled only and not status = error

Control center is capturing all the events with return code =0. But some of these error are handled by SI and need to be ignored. We would need a rule to be able to check if the event has -3

SCC limit to 200 inputs

Problem Description: ENV: Sterling Control Center 5.4.1 DESC: SCC limit to 200 inputs. Standart SSC restricts the number of checking to 200 for a monitor. The maximum value for the "max completed processes" property is 200 thatis not enough to mon...

Add a search function when working with the different files in the System Configuration area of the Web console

In the Web console, System Configuration, Properties area, there are several "files" which can be updated. Once inside the file, it would be nice to have a search function so that the administrator can go to a specific area. Adding this functional...