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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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Add search criteria to SFG select statistics

US Bank's unique customer identifier is mailbox_id. C:E currently has this field available. We need this field added in SFG to use in "select statistics" searches. A screen shot is attached that shows exactly where we need this added.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Rebrand Control Center Web Console and login page

Hi, Similar to sterling filegateway and my filegateway and other IBM products like Business monitor, looking for options to rebranding the control web console, some of the fields that expecting to rebrand --Web console Title--logo--Login page titl...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

PMR 52649,7TD,000 - Unable to see Users and Roles under Access Admin Profile

SCC Admin group must be able to Manage Users and Roles but not have access to ANY other application configurations. Support advised that currently SCC only supports superuser role that has access to EVERYTHING or members can belong to a group that...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration / Security 0 Future consideration

SCC request for Blank Passwords in Functional Authorities/User Proxies

We are using ACF2 for our z/OS security package. As such we have batch accounts specifically for connect direct that are set with no passwords and can only be accessed via other secure JCL procedures. As such we can't manage them via the SCC Confi...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Control Center List processes in Rules

In an environment like ours, we have numerous file transmissions that are monitored by Control Center. There are several process names that we ignore by having a rule where the action = no operation. One option is to build multiple rules that are ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Future consideration

Windows Connect:Direct proxy password secure

Wells Fargo is requesting an enhancement to Windows Connect:Direct. Currently when a new user proxy is configured a password has to be entered by the person creating the user proxy. This password, in most cases, is owned by a team other than the N...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Add TrackingID as a variable that can be passed from B2Bi

TrackingID can be optionally enabled in a B2Bi business process. If it is passed to SCC it can be used to good advantage as a correlator in a workflow SLC to track documents as they are handled by a sequence of business processes. This is a reques...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Future consideration

Cluster statistics utility - queue and thread monitoring

A utility is required that logs queue usage on each node in a Sterling Integrator cluster The utility should track queue usage over time by node and for each node be able to provide statistics (eg. average, min, max, count) for a time period on: Q...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Automated pausing of node monitoring.

Automated pausing feature needs to be developed to automatically pause/suspend monitoring of mutiple Connect:Direct node groups during datacetner swithover/failover. WIthin automated process individual nodes or node groups must be configurable. Th...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

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...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration