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PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...

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Support using REST for Web Services in addition to SOAP

REST is the newer and becoming more popular way of doing web services instead of SOAP. Will definitely improve functionality of the product and supporting newer technologies will improve product marketability. I would like to see it work in a simi...
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Planned for future release

Prevent Netmap Node deletion if node is referenced by a Functional Authority

When an admin retires a netmap node that is no longer needed, sometimes we end up with an orphaned Functional Authority (FA) referencing a now non-existent netmap node. To prevent this from occurring, a new functionality could be created where Con...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Future consideration

Add Management of Non-Stop C:D Nodes to Control Center

Right now Control Center lacks the ability to be able to manage C:D nodes running on nonstop systems. We would like to utilize Control Center as a centralized management system for C:D running on all platforms.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Not under consideration

Key Certificate Management

No description provided
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Future consideration

XMLjsonTransformer for conversion xml to json with array

The conversion xmlToJson generate a file with different tag type when the xml have an array with only one element
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future consideration

Manage/Configure iSeries from ICC

Configuration of Connect Direct and secure+ should be a standard across all supported platforms. Allowing centralised configuration off all connected nodes from within ICC, as to tool was intended for...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Not under consideration

Make package.folderWatchDelayInSecs Available in System Settings

My understanding is that the settings for package.folderWatchDelayInSecs are only available through the RESTful API. This setting along with all settings should be made available in the system settings as well.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 2 Future consideration

REST API client service content type

The RESTAPIClient service accepts only 'Application/JSON and Application/XML as valid values for Content-type. For our integration with Okta, Okta expects the content-type as ' application/x-www-form-urlencoded'. While this works fine with postman...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Not under consideration

Customized Alerting Blackout Periods

We need the ability to set custom times for each node where if the node goes down it doesn't alert. We are looking to use Control Center to monitor multiple Connect:Directs throughout the company and a majority of the CD nodes have different maint...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Future consideration

Support/document health endpoints in REST services

It would be useful to have actuator-like health endpoints in the product's REST and REST Authentication WAR services so that a gateway or load-balancer can gracefully work with the services. If these exist, just documenting them would be great.
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Future consideration