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Make timestamps for events more readable

Currently, when browsing Control Center for any given server, when viewing Processes, File Transfers, Alerts, Events, or Completed File Agent Activity, the timestamps for the last 24 hours of processes are given in how much time has passed since t...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Add slc notes to be displayed as part of an SLC alert

A note section was added to Control Center slc's as part of an enhancement request. This is very useful and beneficial to the team that is responsible for monitoring Control Center alerts. However, the team is asking if the notes could be part of ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Future consideration

collect ebics client messages from B2BI as a standard protocol

Today only Ebics server messages are collected by ICC. for EBICs client, nothing gets to ICC, and therefore ICC is not supervising and monitoring all standard B2Bi protocols. This has a huge impact as we can't use ICC as a central monitoring solut...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Control Center Email Action Ehancement

I recently learned that in a Control Center email action, if the body of the email action is left blank, it will return all of the available variables for the rule parameters you have set. I did some testing where I removed all of the variables I ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Future consideration

Ability to view Secure Proxy configurations via Control Center

When the Sterling Secure Proxy platform is connected, need to be able to view the connection information contained within the environment, similar to what is available for Connect:Direct connections. Being able to view the audit log for changes is...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 4 Functionality already exists

Secure Connectivity to iSeries C:D Nodes

Currently Control Center doesn't have the capability to logon to iSeries C:D nodes using a secure logon.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Ability To Test Actions

After setting up an Action, you are unable to test it without adding it to a rule, and then manually triggering the rule. This is very time consuming when you're trying to verify configuration of the action. I would like there to be a test button ...
3 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Under review

Eliminate the compatibility issue between ICC and Dynatrace monitoring.

The compatibility issue between ICC and Dynatrace prevents use of Control Center Webconsole. Only remediation is to disable the Dynatrace UI agent on the application node. We use Dynatrace for monitoring of all our Sterling Infrastructure and woul...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Future consideration

Single Sign On for IBM Control Center using IBM Sterling Secure Proxy

Implementation of Single Sign On for IBM Control Center using IBM Sterling Secure Proxy, similar to myfilegateway for Sterling File Gateway for external trading partners : In a IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Global Implementation, for a external t...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Display actual time instead of elapsed time for recent completed transfers

When trying to pinpoint when a transfer happened for troubleshooting, or any other reason, it would be a lot better if the time was displayed instead of 47 minutes ago or 2 hours ago...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release