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Update CDZ by Control Center Director

Possibility to update CDZ through Control Center Director
about 1 month ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Submitted

Location and use of CPIO file on Unix for CCD upgrades.

We are looking to have the automatic download location of the CPIO files used by the CDU upgrades to be a selectable location or a field that we can populate in the job configuration. By default, (and we're not able to adjust) it is <installati...
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Under review

Email/Alerting Notifications After CCD Jobs

Looking to have an email notifications and address(es) added as a configurable job field, which would be leveraged to send results automatically (if populated with an email address) after job execution. Email should include job status results (suc...
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Under review

Allow File Agent to be a selectable CDW component for Control Center Director upgrades.

When we run our CDW installs/upgrades, either via manual or automated installations, we do not choose to install the FA component. When we've attempted to utilize CCD as our lifecycle management tool, it automatically installs the optional FA com...
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Under review

Control Center Director -- Additional Node Upgrade Selection Options

Looking for additional/more robust functionality for additional scoping options when performing CDW and CDU upgrades through CCD. Something like the import a server list .csv , or to be able to create/populate a dynamic large group or list. Select...
6 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Under review

IBM Connect:Direct license auditing and alerting through Control Center Director

The idea is to have a Control Center director to have a functionality to verify if usage of IBM Connect:Direct installation meets licensing requirements for specific machine. for example in case of session based licenses if number of allowed concu...
10 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Future consideration

SCCD selection entries in different pages

When we want to change a parameter in all the server or copy a new entry in NetMap or Secure+ in all CD Nodes from another one, the selection screen of CDNodes only can select the entries in the same page. If we change the pages, to seee the 50 ne...

SCCD deploy xlate tables

We need to use SCCD to deploy user configured xlate tables to CD Linux and CD Windows servers. We have more than 2100 servers, and if we need to change the xlate tables in all of them one by one, the cost in hours it's not affordable.
2 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Planned for future release

To permit templates with more than one item

SCCD permits to create templates to Secure+/netmap/userfile/Initparm ... But it must be created one Template for every item. So, if you'd like to add one server in a netmap you must create one template (there is no problem). But if you'd like to ...

To compare userfile/netmap files between servers

It will be very useful be able to compare entire userfile/netmap files between servers. We have seen that's it's possible to compare only one item but it's needed to compare entire files to identify differences between both files.
7 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Future consideration