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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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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...
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IBM Control Center Dashboard Enhancement

Unable to customize what and how is displayed on the SCC dashboard upon user login. Number of fields, field contents, color coding, etc should be configurable. One issue that is causing a big problem right now is the number of "pseudo failed" file...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

AUTH NTLM authentication

Currently the IBM Control Center supports SMTP AUTH LOGIN only with, and our environment is set up for the authentication method of your SMTP server is NTLM auth. We need the control center IBM's application has 2 methods for authentication via SMTP.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Not under consideration

Control Center SQL 2012 JDBC URL

ControlCenter database moved to sql 2012 high availability group with cluster members on multiple IP subnets. Need to be able to modify the database urls to include the parameter muultisubnetfailover=true, i.e url=jdbc:sqlserver://sql2012clusterna...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Functionality already exists

Report to pull last accessed/last login time for all partners

There seems to be a lack of reporting on historical activity of users/partners in Sterling to be able to determine if an account is active and when it was last active. I'm currently trying to pull a last login/last accessed timestamp for each user...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Restrict a user to one specific report

As of now we dont have option to restrict a particular user to specific reports ( either in standard SCC or reports created in cognos)
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Functionality already exists

Sterling Control Center interface with Enterprise Cognos BI

Currently SCC only utilizes it's own Cognos BI. Should be able to interface with Enterprise Cognos BI.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

SEAS needs ability for 2 factor authentication via RADIUS protocol

Need ability to have 2 factor authentication when connecting to applications using SEAS for authentication. Using RADIUS protocol to allow for token authentication would be the preferable method.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Not under consideration

LDAP integration with Sterling Control Center

Sterling Control Center should be able to interface directly with LDAP to authenticate without the addition of Sterling External Authentication Server.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 3 Not under consideration

Control Center authentication and control

For shops that are not using IBM Sterling External Authentication Server to authenticate to Control Center and are using the Control Center authentication, there is currently no way to set an expiration period for a user's password or forcing the ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Future consideration

Control Center stopEngine.bat -np change to soft stop

Please change the stopEngine.bat -np to a soft stop. Currently using this command causes a hard stop to the engine. In my experience, it is not good pratice to do a hard stop on the engine service. This should only be used if a soft stop is not wo...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

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