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Log Standards

Some customers has the need to read the logs using some realtime observability tools, such as Prometheus, Splunk. There is some difficulties on integrating those actual logs of Sterling Control Center with the new standards. This request has the g...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Ability to invoke a BP in a specific queue other than its default queue

In order to prioritize processing of certain transactions over others in common BP's it would be useful if we were able to specify a specific queue for an Async BP to be invoked in rather than have it invoked in its default queue.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Under review

Limit number of alerts for same BP failure

We have set up an alert that sends an email for a Business Process that is processed with errors. At a given time, there may be thousands of failures for the same BP, and we do not want to receive emails for each and every failure of the same kind.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 5 Under review

Monitor and alert on expiring SFG/B2Bi certificates and keys

Control Center already provides monitoring and alerting on certificates used in SSP and C:D. SFG transfers using protocols such as FTPS, AS/2, and EBICS also rely on certificates with SFTP transfers relying on SSH keys to secure them. Where SFG is...
9 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Submitted

AI-Powered B2BI Tuning Recommender

IBM Sterling B2BI provides a wide range of configuration options to maximize performance. As file volumes increase due to business growth, manually identifying and applying the right tuning adjustments becomes complex and time-consuming. Currently...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Submitted

Users should have the ability to produce an alert whenever Control Center loses connection to it's own database

Of course, whenever it loses connection to the DB it will not be able to write anything to the EVENTS table but when that connection is re-established, there should be some message written that indicates there's been a problem that we can monitor ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 1 Functionality already exists

IBM Control Center - Not finding specific MSGID's

Need IBM Control Center to monitor the following MSG ID's SVTM026I - Session not establishedSVTM505I - Session Retry exceededSVTM105I - A process may be moved to HO HC Currently IBM Control Center is not getting recording these events and we need ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Under review

Limit MIO Work Queue Data by New Discipline Specific MRP Controllers from SAP

Currently the Work Queue Sets are limited only by Plant, however much of the time spares can be a mix of onshore and offshore locations depending on how close the teams need access to the stock, also due to the set up of maintenance / and the engi...
3 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

LZ4 compression in Kafka consumer adapter

The Kafka consumer adapter is unable to retrieve messages from Kafka topics that have LZ4 compression. Is there a solution in the Sterling Integrator Kafka settings, or how should we manage this? Without compression, there will be many concerns wi...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Submitted

Allow workflow approvers to edit the record and send back to the user.

Our workflow approvers often catch slight tweaks that need to be performed to a record that lands in their inbox, often dealing with MRP settings. (For example, maybe the requestor put an item on planned order instead of automatic replenishment.) ...
3 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration