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Administration & Configuration

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Add more functionality to integrate the export/import of individual configuration items with the command line

Currently it is difficult in version 6.1 to export/import individual configuration items in an automated way using a scripted approach, it would be better to have a more granular approach to ease release/migration tasks. For example being able to ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Option to Save C:D Configurations Locally within Control Center

We would like the ability to save Connect:Direct configurations (initparm, userfile, netmap, secure+...)within Control Center. In the event of a true disaster this would allow Control Center to push the configs out to the node to quickly get a C:D...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

Template for Holiday Schedule

Please add a feature to allow for exclusion template we can apply to all SLC instead of having to go into each SLC and select the exclusions.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

ControlCenter ActiveAlerts can be assigned to dedicated Person(/Admin)

ControlCenter ActiveAlerts can be designed to a dedicated Person/Admin.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

Requesting archiving for partitioned database

System Settings, database has archiving functionality for non-partitioned databases. We are requesting a similar utility be designed for partitioned databases.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

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

Pick up additional messaging from Connect:Direct for z/OS

Starting Engine 6.0.0.1_iFix02We are in need to have IBM Control Center pick up additional messaging from Sterling Connect:Direct for z/OS record ID ‘PT' to capture a Secure Plus handshake failure. Currently the z/OS puts out the record ID=PT fo...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

IBM Control Center - Add Messages so they are available for rule processing

SCC generates quite a few messages, however there are only a few that are actually available for rule processing. I would like to see all messages that are currently being generated and passed into the log to also be available for rule processing....
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Control Center: statRecordIds File

I've been doing some testing with the statRecordIds file on our test environment. Today I realized that more attention needs to be given to this file. You are probably wondering what do I mean? Here is a possible situation below. A site is running...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration