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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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Password Standards

WebSphere can not handle special characters in the password, you need to limit it to alphanumeric. Security and Risk standards dictate special characters being used in all passwords for strength.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Delivered

RHEL8/RH8 Support for IBM Control Center

Rather than installing a new instance of ICC and its components onto RHEL7 and then repeating the process again on RHEL8 once its supported. It'd be extremely useful to know dates sooner rather than later. Please advised when support for RHEL8...

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.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered

Control Center: Add Free Text Field tab for slc's

Please add a tab to Control Center slc's where slc managers can enter free text. It could allow them to add instructions/additional information.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Delivered

Control Center 6.0 Web Console Enhancement #3

Currently it is possible to interface with other systems such as Connect Direct and Sterling B2B Integrator and File Gateway from the Java console. This functionality is not currently present in the Web console.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Delivered

Develope Health Checker tool for Control Center

I have heard recently that a health checker tool is being developed for Sterling Integrator. I was wondering if a health checker tool could be developed for Control Center? Right now the only to discover issues is by looking at the engine logs and...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance 1 Delivered

Control Center 6.1 - Web Console Enhancement #4

I know that the eventual goal for Control Center is to move everything to the Web console and do away with the Java console. Currently in the Web console, a user that has appropriate access, can create, update, and delete rules. However, I notice ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Delivered

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 ...

Enhancement request for Control Center 6.1 Web Console

The new Web Console design does have a nice look. However, there seems to be a lot of wasted space (white space). Reduce the space between rows. For example, on the Active Alerts and Queued Activity screens, there is too much space between each ro...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Delivered

In Server Inventory report, we are not able to include server meta data parameter as an output parameter.

We have specified all 10 server meta data parameters in the connected connect direct servers and want these parameters in the server inventory report. As of now, we are seeing the server meta data parameters in filter option only in Audit > Sev...
6 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 3 Delivered