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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 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Functionality already exists

Connect:Direct for zOS copying files to SNODE (Linux or Windows ) at the same time using a '*' mask to individual datasets

The client SERPRO would like that was possible in Connect:Direct CDP pull a list of datasets that meet your dataset mask with the '*' (for eg. ABCDEF*.TXT)and based on that list of datasets that match then to start copies each of the datasets one ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

API for Handling Alerts

Please develop an API for handling Control Center alerts. Internal applications that use Control Center data would benefit from this.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

Unhandle Alert

Sometimes mistakes happen. A user may accidentally handle an alert. It would be great if an enhancement was added where as long as the handled alert is still present in the Handled Alerts Monitor, the user could then check that handled alert and s...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Add Servers in Control Center Monitoring to Connect:Direct Web Services Automatically

When utilizing APIs or manual entry of servers to ICC monitoring, have that automatically add the servers to the Connect:Direct Web Services. This will alleviate hours of manual work when onboarding new servers or existing servers to allow for Web...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Functionality already exists

Ambiguous Logon Messages For zCD instead of RACF001I, RACF002I

Hello. You have several message IDs for zCD logon security that are not ambiguous. We want you to offer ambiguous logon messages that will not give any hint to an nonauthorized user.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add support for date or variable date to be added to Report names and Email Subjects on Reports

When using Control Center to automate a daily report to provide all the previous days transmission details from our Connect:Direct instance the CC monitors we would like to indicate a date of previous day in the report name created but we could li...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Add the ability to remove trusted certificates from Connect Direct Secure + managed servers using Control Center

Currently, Control Center allows the user to import a trusted certificate. However, it would be extremely beneficial if the authorized user could also remove unneeded or expired certificates using Control Center.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

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 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Certificate Expiration Warning for File Agent

Our team is currently looking into the use of certificate authentication with File Agent. I don't think that Control Center will have any visibility to when the certificate expires. We need Control Center to be able to report on this.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 2 Not under consideration