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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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Oracle Scan Listener with RAC Oracle 11g

Problem titleSCAN Listener for Oracle RAC Configuration in SCC.Problem descriptionWe are using Oracle 11g with RAC. The way our company supports RAC is using Oracle Scan (Scan Listener) which we recently learned is not supported with 11.2.04. We n...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Functionality already exists

Control Center Cant Connect to a Authenticated TSL or SSL Database

Cant Connect to a Authenticated TSL or SSL Database
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

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...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

Add enhancement for Control Center Wildcard slc's to be able to use source files

Add a field to wildcard slc's for source file. I know that in order to monitor a source file workflow slc's can be used. Our team has tried to utilize workflow slc's in the past, but they seem to be problematic for us.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

Dynamic content and recipient for SCC email based Actions

A B2Bi process has an onFault which sets some email content in process data , and a second assign sets the email recipient . SCC should be able to use these bits of data to dynamically create the alert email.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

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...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Secure Connectivity to HP Nonstop C:D Nodes

Currently Control Center doesn't have the capability to logon to HP Nonstop C:D nodes using a secure logon.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Functionality already exists

Unlimited timeout for a user on Web Dashboard

Our 24/7 monitoring needs all dashboards running all time; so no logout or timeout for a given user.Please make this functionality available for web based dashboards for Control center.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

CDW - Reduce windows user permission on Transfer ID/Proxy ID instead of granting local admin

CDW - Reduce windows user permission on Transfer ID/Proxy ID instead of granting local admin Currently must required the ID to be part of the administrators group. If the TransferID/Proxy ID (AD user) can be a normal user, that would be great beca...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Functionality already exists

ITX offers DATETIME format conversion. Request a Function/Keyword to convert datetime from one time zone to specified time zone.

Am looking for a new function in ITX to convert datetime from one time zone to another time say. Say if the input is in format(with zone) 2024-07-26T:21:12:00 NZST, and requirement is to convert to CST. TODATETIMEZONE(datetimefield,fromzone,tozone...
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 2 Functionality already exists