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Connect:Direct Client Identification by the Connect:Direct Server

Connect:Direct, although a peer to peer MFT tool, uses a client - server model as it's underlying architecture. With a client submitting a job to the C:D server, we cannot identify the client server with the current state of affairs if the C:D ser...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

developement

to add High Water Mark for max API session to be reported into the statistics
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 4 Not under consideration

Sterling Control Center Having an alert on unhandled alerts

Can Control Center generate an alert if a previous alert is not marked as handled if x amount of time has expired?
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Control Center List processes in Rules

In an environment like ours, we have numerous file transmissions that are monitored by Control Center. There are several process names that we ignore by having a rule where the action = no operation. One option is to build multiple rules that are ...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Have Control Center be able to monitor alternate IP addresses for CD fail over servers

Currently when a CD server is defined on Control Center only one IP address can be listed. We have some failover servers where the name of the Connect Direct is the same, but if the primary goes down and the failover comes up, Control Center canno...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

Improve Control Center Calendars

There needs to be more flexibility with Control Center calendars. Let's say for example, I need a calendar for January, April, July, and October to be daily. The way calendar maintenance currently works, if I select all of the active days for thos...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Secure Connectivity to HP Nonstop C:D Nodes

Currently Control Center doesn't have the capability to logon to HP Nonstop C:D nodes using a secure logon.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Functionality already exists

Control Center OpenVMS Support

We would like IBM Control Center to be able to monitor and manage C:D nodes on the OpenVMS platform.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Group Functional Authorities in Connect Direct UNIX

In Connect Direct Windows, a local or domain group functional authority can be created. However, a similar functionality is not available in CD UNIX.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Configurable clean environment for run tasks

Following the change introduced in v4.1.0.3 of C:D for UNIX (apar IC86881) whereby environment variables are sanitized, IBM should provide a better mechanism for setting environment variables for Run Task and Run Job steps in a secure manner. Alth...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration