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Terminate the Process Waiting for Dynamic Allocation or Unallocation

CDz runs into temporarily unresponsive periodically 5 to 10 min or even longer due to the reason that SYSZTIOT ENQ exclusively held by CDz itself in which one process can't perform dynamical allocation or un allocation holding all other processes ...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

format string parser

Please add a parser/validator of format srings into the compiler, so that WTX developers are being notified of invalid format strings that won't work in the WTX engine.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

Make the "use ellipses button" a display option

The Map Designer provides a way to use ellipses when draggin'-n-dropin' type references into a rule. This is very nice to make rules more compact and usually improves readability. However, "getting back" to the referenced type is sometimes an issu...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 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: 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 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Not under 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 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 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

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 8 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 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists