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ITX offers ADDDAYS, ADDHOURS and ADDMINUTES to Date Time objects. I have a requirement to add seconds, but there is currently no ADDSECONDS function offered to support this. My idea is to make an ADDSECONDS function available in ITX.

Given seconds can often be part of a date time object, not having a proper function to adjust seconds as easily as minutes, hours and days seems to be a gap that should be addressed.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Future consideration

Report duplicated entries in netmap.cfg/userfile.cfg

Currently Control Center does not report duplicated entries added to netmap.cfg/userfile.cfg Connect Direct config files. This causes ambiguity. Duplicates can be reported by cfgcheck on the server but there is no possibility to discover/edit/dele...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

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 ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Future consideration

Total of files sent to a specific partner (Report)

Customer wants to know the total of files sent to a specific partner in a period.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Improve Control Center Rule Administration

In Control Center 6.2 rule administration can only be done via the Web console. If a new rule or an existing rule is updated that contains a list of servers, there is not a pick list. There is a search, but each server the user wants to select can...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Linux systemd script implementation for Sterling Connect:Express

to Develop and test example IBM Sterling Connect:Express linux autoboot systemd control script since systemd is replacing init.d for RHEL 7 and other linux distributions.
12 months ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Usability 2 Future consideration

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 ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Future consideration

Keep Filters When Switching from Active Monitor to Queued Activity Monitory or any monitor

Our users often switch from the Active Monitor to Queued Activity Monitor and vice versa often. The user may have certain items filtered in the Active Monitor and then if they switch to the Queued Activity Monitor and back to the Active Monitor, t...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Add TrackingID as a variable that can be passed from B2Bi

TrackingID can be optionally enabled in a B2Bi business process. If it is passed to SCC it can be used to good advantage as a correlator in a workflow SLC to track documents as they are handled by a sequence of business processes. This is a reques...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Future consideration

Visibility into Workflow for Non-Administrative Users

As a standard user, I need to have better visibility into the progress of a workflow where I have an assigned task. There are many workflows and participants in these workflows and as a user, I need to be able to plan my work so that I can anticip...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 2 Future consideration