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Administration & Configuration

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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...
7 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Increase character limit for Description field to more than 255 characters.

We are planning to update description field with multiple characters and then generate the report for dashboard purpose. Customizing the character limit to higher value will help us to add more characters in the description field.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 4 Not under consideration

Improve startWebAppServer.bat

On Windows, when the startWebAppServer.bat is executed from CMD, it doesn't close. If the window is closed, this will stop the web server for that EP. The only way I found that works is that when our team runs the startWebAppServer.bat, we disconn...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Add support to multiple DB service

Hi Team, Our DBA pattern for oracle databases is to have two separate data bases in two data centers with its own host and service name. The current configCC.sh doesnt support entering two service names during the config. if we do have such capabi...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Capability to Monitor IBM MQ Servers (Not MQ FTE) using IBM Control Center

Could you please add the capability to Monitor IBM MQ Servers using IBM Control Center.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Remove SEAS dependecny for Control Center to authenticate to Active Directory/LDAP

Will avoid another product dependency to AD/LDAP authentication and this also saves another platform that includes server resources. Once this idea is implemented, customers does not need to maintain another servers for SEAS and resources to maint...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

ICC Needs a mechanism not to restart whenever , user partner/user trustkey/public cert is checked in to ICC keystore

have enabled ICC SSL for java console to access with 58081.Steps used to performFrom ICC1.Created key store, created selfsign certificate and extracted cert in.arm format using ikeyman tool.2.Created trust key3.Ran configCC and provided paths for ...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

External User should not add in ICC clasic console when we have configured LDAP to authenticate external users

IBM Control Center authenticates with LDAP if we created external users specifically in ICC classic console though we have configured LDAP with SEAS. The Feature Should be as below: 1.) ICC should validate if the user is local or external. If us...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Control Center: Implement Secure Connections without shutting down the engine

If it is possible to implement, I believe this would be useful to Control Center users and administrators because it would reduce down time for Control Center.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

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.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration