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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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Identify changes made by upgrade/install

We have made config changes to the SCC config that reside outside of the system. When we upgrade, those changes are sometimes overwritten by the installer. We need a way to know if custom install/config changes are impacted on upgrade.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 0 Not under consideration

Add Management of Non-Stop C:D Nodes to Control Center

Right now Control Center lacks the ability to be able to manage C:D nodes running on nonstop systems. We would like to utilize Control Center as a centralized management system for C:D running on all platforms.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Not under consideration

E-mail Template Variables Standardized

The numbers used to identify variables within e-mail templates should be consistent across all templates.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Ability to set tab order for objects within a dialog

Currently the tab order defaults to the order in which the objects were created and can not be changed. The objects get moved around and thus is confusing when trying to tab through to fill out a form.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Support NFS for work files in Connect Direct for load balancer setup

Support NFS for work files in Connect:Direct. Without the support of NFS for work files, Connect: Direct cannot be load balanced for restarts appropriately.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration

HP-Nonstop Connect:Direct Maxdelay

Request for Maxdelay feature in C:D HP NonStop. To wait for the completion of a submit statement or interval time completes.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Please Test and Certify SQL Server AlwaysOn for Connect Direct

Please test and certify Connect Direct support for SQL server AlwaysOn. Our infrastructure team is pushing us to move our Windows install of C:D to SQL Server 2012 Always On Availability Groups. Our lab advocate asked for this RFE as IBM has not t...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration

HA solution for Connect:Direct using replication

Since Cloud VMs are widely used these days, has IBM considered to certify HA solution for Connect:Direct on Cloud VMs without requiring OS-level clustering software such as Windows Clustering or Veritas Cluster Software (VCS) for Linux? Those OS-l...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

Add support to multiple DB service

Hi Team, Our DBA pattern for oracle databases is to have two separate data bases in two data centers with its own host and service name. The current configCC.sh doesnt support entering two service names during the config. if we do have such capabi...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Activity Hierarchy

Create a folder structure for rolled out activities. Currently all activities show up in the same page with the most recent rolled out/closed activity. In the document attached, you can see above there are currently over 4500 activities rolled out...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration