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Total of files sent to a specific partner (Report)

Customer wants to know the total of files sent to a specific partner in a period.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Server Inventory Report should contain all fields related to node

Server Inventory report does contain all the field. Need enhancement to reporting capability to include all fields in the report as this is required to gather details and automate the inventory validation.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 4 Planned for future release

Audit logs should be created when a CD or B2Bi node is Paused/Resumed recording the ID

In production situations node monitoring by Control Center is critical for alerting on failures. Currently someone can pause monitoring and we have no way of determining who did so.
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

Enable Control Center reports to display in multiple time zones

Currently when a user starts to setup a report to be ran, Control Center defaults with the time zone that the console preferences are set it. There is a drop down menu for other time zones, but when a user selects one of these, the report will not...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Control Center: File Agent notification for "*** File cannot be processed...May be FTPied in... ***"

Need File Agent notification for "*** File cannot be processed...May be FTPied in... ***" situation.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

How to control the return URL of reports submitted to Cognos from IBM Control Center

When submitting a report in Control Center, or when opening a Cognos Studio session, the URL comes back to the client workstation with the server name and tries to connect on port 9300. How can this be configured to not expose the host name?
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

SCC reporting limitation needs to be greatly increased or removed

Currently, when running Cognos based reporting through SCC, there is a hard limit of 5000 records being returned. We need this increased since some days we have more than 100k files transferred or alerts that need to be reported for a time period ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Control Center 6.0 and 6.1 - Enhance Connect Direct Process Details Report

I noticed that the Connect Direct Process Details report does not display the source file. Please add this as an available column. This is helpful information especially when the source file may be a gdg or have a date and time stamp. I realize th...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Monitored File Agents - Notification needed for "error in container"

The File Agent CDFA.log reports "error in container" messages in the log. We would like an associated message ID to be assigned to this so that a Control Center email notification can be set up. This will help our team clean up various File Agents...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Timezone conversion/formatting for time-related variables

We are testing Control Center for monitoring and managing C:D server, and one of the inconvenience we encountered was the lack of formatting options for time-related variables (event elements). To elablorate, we tried to set up rules and actions t...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 5 Planned for future release