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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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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.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

Control Center 6.1 - Conf Migrated from other server - EP's from old server

When a Control Center 6.1 configuration that has multiple EP's that is migrated to a new server, the EP's from the old server appear in the new setup. Why can't the EP's from the old configuration be deleted during installation or by running the c...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Control Center OpenVMS Support

We would like IBM Control Center to be able to monitor and manage C:D nodes on the OpenVMS platform.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Add Control Center functionality to monitor MQ MFT server over encrypted channel

Add functionality for Control Center to monitor MQ MFT servers over an encrypted channel.Any connections between Control Center and a monitored server regardless of type should allow for encrypted communications.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Planned for future release

Allow SSP engine certificate to be configured through configureEngineSsl.sh directly

The configureEngineSsl.sh script only supports importing configuration exported from CM. Typically CM and SSP engines are installed on different machines in different network zones. The certificates will be put on the servers directly. It's a lot ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Allow utility scripts like changepassphrase.sh, SEASCipherConfigTool.sh, seasRestAPI.sh to run in non interactive mode

Currently I'm not able to run scripts like changepassphrase.sh, SEASCipherConfigTool.sh, seasRestAPI.sh in the non interactive mode. There is no option to pass the multiple input passphrases to those scripts. Those scripts will also error out if I...
about 3 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Improve Control Center email information for CCTR135I

I currently have a rule which reports if an insert to the EVENTS table exceeds 30 seconds. The email generated does not provided which managed server the EP was trying to insert the data for. This information can be found in the engine logs, but i...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 2 Functionality already exists

Arrow Keys (on keyboard) to move objects

Currently arrow keys on the keyboard do nothing in PEM. If an object is selected, the arrow keys on the user's keyboard (not buttons on the screen) should move the object. If the object is aligned with other objects on the page, this should be rep...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Not under consideration

CX Direct access to tapes

CONNECT:EXPRESS FOR Z/OS could access directly tapes : read tape to transmit the file or write on tape the file received.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Usability 0 Not under consideration

CX SYSTCP Partial generic

In the SYSTCP the TCP/IP address can only be unique or '*'. It can't be générique like 172.016.063.* So we have too much entries.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Security 0 Not under consideration