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Enable custom widgets in CCM dashboards with global filters/multiple dashboards

MFT operators want to see multiple aspects of the health of their systems pulling in data from other tools such as sever performance as well as their own reports (either built with Jasper or by embedding reports from other tools like Grafana) on k...
6 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Submitted

Alert to files stuck in SFG mailbox

Occasionally when SFG encounters issues files will not get picked up and routed by SFG. Until the file has been picked up by the SFG routing rule it is not visible in the SFG arrived file display meaning it is hard to identify where there are issu...
6 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Under review

Generate longfile name for Connect:Direct transfers in log

We want to utilize transfer logs generated in syslog/task log to do some automation reporting and alerting. However NDM longfile name which reported in SMF type FI isn't written to syslog so we can't get full pictures for file transfers between un...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Support individual system RSU upgrade in CDPLEX environment

We are trying to achieve a high availability environment for CD with CDPLEX. Supporting RSU upgrade per system instead of per SYSPLEX will allow us to failover seamlessly if there is an issue with RSU upgrade on one particular LPAR.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add capability to Connect:Direct to work around undesirable DVIPA behavior

We'd like to request a new initialization parm for Connect:DIrect (CD) to disable outbound TCP connection establishment until after the DTF opens its TCP listener ports. Our DTFs both send traffic and listen for traffic. We have had situations whe...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

tighten up on user mistakes, and educate them

Flush with my last success...ZOSA1679 2/21/2019 Copy File Enhancement- Introduced new field PAG 'SUBMIT MULTI MODE' to allow user for single and multi submit from CF panel ...I have a couple more enhancements that I've just implemented in my site....
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Dynamic removal of redundant checkpoint entries

Can the logic behind CKPT.DAYS be extended so that this function in invoked on a regular basis (e.g. daily) instead of only when z/OS Connect:Direct is started? When the checkpoint dataset becomes full, the only way to defragment it or clear out r...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Report duplicated entries in netmap.cfg/userfile.cfg

Currently Control Center does not report duplicated entries added to netmap.cfg/userfile.cfg Connect Direct config files. This causes ambiguity. Duplicates can be reported by cfgcheck on the server but there is no possibility to discover/edit/dele...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Add an SSP's setting to Increase/Decrease from SSP 64K Buffer Size up to 128K

1. By default, SSP uses an RU (Resource Unit) Buffer Size of 48K RU when passing through file. 2. When a PNode is sending in Secure+ mode, it encrypts the data into 16k SSLB buffers and stuffs them into an RU. SSP must unload these SSLBlocks and d...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Performance 0

Make timestamps for events more readable

Currently, when browsing Control Center for any given server, when viewing Processes, File Transfers, Alerts, Events, or Completed File Agent Activity, the timestamps for the last 24 hours of processes are given in how much time has passed since t...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release