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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...
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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SNMP Trap DateTime format issue

SNMP trap datetime format generated from Sterling Control Center always in UTC format irrespective of datetime config. in SCC settings while requirement is to generate the datetime format in ETC OR as per the configuration presents in the ICC sett...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

IBM Countrol Center File transfer count threshold

I have a scenario as below.Generate alerts when an expected traffic (transaction count) from a customer is above or below the defined threshold. This threshold value should be configurable based on the partner and transaction type. This should als...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Future consideration

assign/choose a TLS protocol level from within configCC.sh

o I would like to see the ability to assign/choose a TLS protocol level from within configCC.sh during secure setup of secure ports (Apache and Jetty setup), such as TLSv1.2 to replace the default of TLSv1.0
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Cognos reporting does not return MQ return codes - Refer PMR 34702,442,000

When we run Cognos report, we filter based on Event Return Code under MQMFT FIle Transfer Report, it never comes with return codes as 40.We can see the return codes coming as 0,1,2 and 8 instead of standard MQ FTE return codes like 20,40 etc.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Pick up additional messaging from Connect:Direct for z/OS

Starting Engine 6.0.0.1_iFix02We are in need to have IBM Control Center pick up additional messaging from Sterling Connect:Direct for z/OS record ID ‘PT' to capture a Secure Plus handshake failure. Currently the z/OS puts out the record ID=PT fo...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Configuracion Oracle RAC

Problem Description: We need to configure Oracle balancer RAC for Control Center. The following configuration is working at SQL developer and Sterling B2Bi jdbc:oracle:thin:@(DESCRIPTION_LIST=(LOAD_BALANCE=OFF)(FAILOVER=ON) (DESCRIPTION=(CONNECT_T...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration

IBM Control Center - Add Messages so they are available for rule processing

SCC generates quite a few messages, however there are only a few that are actually available for rule processing. I would like to see all messages that are currently being generated and passed into the log to also be available for rule processing....
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

More Robust Search Options in SCC web client

In the Sterling Control Center Web Client, under the Monitor, Completed File Transfers screen... We would like to see more robust search criteria. Currently it is allowing us to search based on data, server, filename and status. Our biggest use of...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

SCC to support SNMPv3

We implemented IBM Sterling Commerce as our standard file transfer service. Currently, our Control Center is sending traps using SNMPv2. Our primary interest is in being able to receive and send SNMPv3 traps as v2 comes with a lot security vulnera...

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.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration