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PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...
PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...

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CC 6.1 handling more than 10 alerts at a time

Sometimes we need to handle a lot of alerts at a time, e.g. more than 900. Because this is currently not possible with version 6.1 we can't use it.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Delivered

Add Configure Server option in GUI IBM-CC Server List views

The server list view is useful for looking at the properties and how the Connect:Direct server is configured in Control Center, but it lacks the ability to configure the components that the normal view allows. The view would get more usage if the ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Delivered

Control Center 6.1 - Web Console Enhancement #4

I know that the eventual goal for Control Center is to move everything to the Web console and do away with the Java console. Currently in the Web console, a user that has appropriate access, can create, update, and delete rules. However, I notice ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Delivered

Add a search function when working with the different files in the System Configuration area of the Web console

In the Web console, System Configuration, Properties area, there are several "files" which can be updated. Once inside the file, it would be nice to have a search function so that the administrator can go to a specific area. Adding this functional...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Delivered

Certification of MSSQL 2016 for IBM Control Center 6.1.0.1

Our company is currently moving to MS SQL 2016 from SQL 2008, we need to be able to run IBM Control Center on SQL 2016. It has not yet been certified for SQL 2016.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 1 Delivered

Control Center 6.1 - Web Console Enhancement #3

I believe that IBM's objective is to move all of the functionality that is in the Java console to the Web console. There is some functionality that is available in both. One of these is rules management. On the Java console a user can duplicate an...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Delivered

In a Control Center High Availability environment, allow Control Center to handle multiple SNMP listener addresses

This RFE is associated with RFE: Multiple SMTP listeners for Connect Direct File Agent needed (102474). In a Control Center High Availability environment, allow Control Center to handle multiple SMNP listener addresses. For example, if I have a tw...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Delivered

IBM Control Center Unable to Update Mainframe SPOE

Unable to add, delete or modify a zOS mainframes SPOE from Control Center.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Delivered

Control Center 6.1 - Web Console Enhancement #2

It seems that some functionality has been removed from the Web console in version 6.1 that was there in version 6.0.0.1. In 6.0.0.1 from the Active Alerts screen a user could filter what they wanted to see. I do not see any way of doing this in ve...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Delivered

Control Center 6.1.0.1 - Initiate Shutdown of EP from Web Console

Since much of the functionality is being moved to the Web console, it would be great if an admin could shutdown an event processor (one they're not logged on) and initiate the shutdown. Maybe even a system wide shutdown. The admin and other users ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration / Usability 1 Delivered