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Sterling Control Center Director

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Provide alternative to GZip when downloading upgrade job logs through CCD

Many large corporations lock down employee workstations meaning new software cannot be installed and Gzip is not included it makes it very hard to view the upgrade logs without gaining access to the C:D node which somewhat defeats the object of us...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Under review

Show date max sessions reached and allow reset

Provide mechanisms to show the date that the high watermark session count for a node was last reached under License Management or to reset the high watermark to be calculated from a set date when displaying it in License Management.
about 2 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Under review

Update CDZ by Control Center Director

Possibility to update CDZ through Control Center Director
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Not under consideration

CCD should keep track of connection high water mark

One of the ways to license C:D is based on the max number of connections over a given period. However, I'm told that this information is no longer available in CCD. The other option that was mentioned is being able to pull this from C:D directly.
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Functionality already exists

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...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Future consideration

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...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 2 Planned for future release

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...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Functionality already exists

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...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Future consideration

Updating string in init.parameters using API /api/v1/config/jobs/update/init-parms-text for single parameter like :osa.rest.url

The current API /api/v1/config/jobs/update/init-parms-text is useful only for entire init.param file to update but it would be good if the API can update single parameter like :osa.rest.url
7 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Future consideration

Reduce the patch time by downloading the binaries prior to scheduled time.

In scheduled patching job , download the patch to CD server happens at the start of scheduled time. This dramatically increase the patching window and becomes un certain when the actual patching will start. The ask here is to download the binaries...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Planned for future release