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Configuration management should have an approval process for changes

There should be an approval process built into SCC for making changes with the Configure Servers functions. Adding an optional hook to make a call to a change management system for validation would be even better. The change process should include...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 3 Future consideration

More granularity on scheduling of Control Center configuration updates

The ability to run configuration updates in Control Center needs to have more options than run daily at a specific time or never. Large environments cannot handle daily runs and should be able to be scheduled via a calendar option. It would also b...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Future consideration

SCCD deploy xlate tables

We need to use SCCD to deploy user configured xlate tables to CD Linux and CD Windows servers. We have more than 2100 servers, and if we need to change the xlate tables in all of them one by one, the cost in hours it's not affordable.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 2 Functionality already exists

Add equivalent of cdai_verifyUpgrade parameter

For silent install, users get a chance to set upgrade options (parameters). One of those is cdai_verifyUpgrade which enables/disables step that performs loopback transfer after upgrade to verify if upgrade was successful. If loopback transfer is n...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Future consideration

Mail MIME Service Attachment with Asian characters

Currently when using the Mail Mime Service with FSA to extract attachments, it seems FSA uses the "name" inside "ContentType*" as FileName. Unfortunately for "ContentTypes", Mail Mime Service doesn't seems to be able to read the "name" correctly w...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Allow for periods in Provisional Facts in SFG

In Sterling File Gateway, when elected to use a provisional fact in a Routing Channel Template, it does not all for periods in the value you can input when creating the routing channel. This causes the need for a custom business process and compli...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Sterling Integrator JMS Adapter Issue in consuming messages

There is an issue that happens when an outside source sends a file with a “null” message inside the message body to the B2Bi JMS adapter: the Sterling JMS adapter process is going into an endless loop when receiving the Null value inside the body ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Is a defect

BPID shows active on queue watcher but UI shows terminated, some how the queue watcher JVM is out of synch with UI

I believe this being a bug or lack of functionality, Although this particular BPID was terminated from the UI then also via the command line -ControllerWorkFlow script but will not be remove from queue watcher! And also showed as terminated on UI....
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Alert mechanism for when Active BPs reach a certain threshold

Customizable alert mechanism of Active BPs - When Active BPs reach a certain threshold alert email should be sent. If we get this option in IBM B2Bi, it will be of great help as it is a proactive measure for Admins / stakeholders who supports IBM ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Monitor Aspera Nodes

It would be great idea if we can have monitoring enabled for Aspera Nodes and secure proxy, the reason I would say is as Aspera provides one of the MFT solution which enables us to transfer huge data and since it has the ability to do so lot of or...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 5 Not under consideration