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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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SNMP Trap DateTime format issue

SNMP trap datetime format generated from Sterling Control Center always in UTC format irrespective of datetime config. in SCC settings while requirement is to generate the datetime format in ETC OR as per the configuration presents in the ICC sett...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

assign/choose a TLS protocol level from within configCC.sh

o I would like to see the ability to assign/choose a TLS protocol level from within configCC.sh during secure setup of secure ports (Apache and Jetty setup), such as TLSv1.2 to replace the default of TLSv1.0
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Cognos reporting does not return MQ return codes - Refer PMR 34702,442,000

When we run Cognos report, we filter based on Event Return Code under MQMFT FIle Transfer Report, it never comes with return codes as 40.We can see the return codes coming as 0,1,2 and 8 instead of standard MQ FTE return codes like 20,40 etc.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Configuracion Oracle RAC

Problem Description: We need to configure Oracle balancer RAC for Control Center. The following configuration is working at SQL developer and Sterling B2Bi jdbc:oracle:thin:@(DESCRIPTION_LIST=(LOAD_BALANCE=OFF)(FAILOVER=ON) (DESCRIPTION=(CONNECT_T...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration

Control Center (6.0): Control Center Reports URL Address

When a report is run from Control Center, another window is open and in the address bar of the window is the host name of the server where Control Center is running. Depending on the environment, this page may not display unless a user changes the...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Functionality already exists

AUTH NTLM authentication

Currently the IBM Control Center supports SMTP AUTH LOGIN only with, and our environment is set up for the authentication method of your SMTP server is NTLM auth. We need the control center IBM's application has 2 methods for authentication via SMTP.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Not under consideration

SEAS needs ability for 2 factor authentication via RADIUS protocol

Need ability to have 2 factor authentication when connecting to applications using SEAS for authentication. Using RADIUS protocol to allow for token authentication would be the preferable method.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Not under consideration

Sterling Control Center v5.4.2 ER for catalina.out Logging

Original issue:Problem titlecatalina.out filled file system.Problem descriptionCatalina.out file filled file system and was at 101G in size. File hadto be removed to do anything on system.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Not under consideration

Ability to generate alerts only when adapters on all nodes are down.

Currently we have the ability to get notified whenever the adapters are down, however we need to get alerts only when all the adapters in a cluster are down rather than getting notified when an adapter on a particular node is down.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Control Center 5.4.02

I have installed Control Center 5.4.02iFix01 on our test environment. I do not undersand why the email configuration piece was moved to the installation. Once installation is complete, I could still see the email tab in the system settings on the ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Not under consideration