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Improve Control Center Rule Administration

In Control Center 6.2 rule administration can only be done via the Web console. If a new rule or an existing rule is updated that contains a list of servers, there is not a pick list. There is a search, but each server the user wants to select can...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Make Compatible With Windows 11 Pro

Microsoft is pushing to move to Windows 11
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Ability To Test Actions

After setting up an Action, you are unable to test it without adding it to a rule, and then manually triggering the rule. This is very time consuming when you're trying to verify configuration of the action. I would like there to be a test button ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Future consideration

Gentran Server For Windows 5.3.1 Windows 2022 Server and MS SQL 2022 Compatibility

Windows 2019 Server is going end of life in early 2024 so to keep server OS supported there is a need for Gentran Server for Windows 5.3.1 to be compatible with Windows 2022 Server. Also would be nice for the Gentran database to be compatible with...

User should be able to use variable in Send email >To field under the action.

Currently, we are only able to provide mail ids only when we create the action in Control Center Monitor. IN our project, we are using meta data and we want to use the meta data variable in Send email so that as per server, email should get to own...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Planned for future release

More Robust Search Options in SCC web client

In the Sterling Control Center Web Client, under the Monitor, Completed File Transfers screen... We would like to see more robust search criteria. Currently it is allowing us to search based on data, server, filename and status. Our biggest use of...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Eliminate the compatibility issue between ICC and Dynatrace monitoring.

The compatibility issue between ICC and Dynatrace prevents use of Control Center Webconsole. Only remediation is to disable the Dynatrace UI agent on the application node. We use Dynatrace for monitoring of all our Sterling Infrastructure and woul...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 3 Not under consideration

IBM Control Center Email Alert Formating

Email alerts, from Control Centre are in plain text format. Can the alert email format be using for example XLST and HTML to mark critical warning and success with appropriate coloring? Can we have for separate, for each alert, its own configurati...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Display actual time instead of elapsed time for recent completed transfers

When trying to pinpoint when a transfer happened for troubleshooting, or any other reason, it would be a lot better if the time was displayed instead of 47 minutes ago or 2 hours ago...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Location Table ContactName string greater than 35 charecters.

We are currently using this field 'Contact' to store the email address, but the email that we are currently updating is 36 characters long and the last character is getting truncated due to the field length limitation of the Contact field. So need...