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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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Admin User ID Creation Automation specifically for SEAS.

System : SEASActor: User needing automated Admin User id on-boarding. SEAS presently we have to use Java Thick client to log in and create Admin users. As part of the firm-wide initiative they need the Admin users on-boarding/off-boarding to be au...
about 6 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

SSP User ID based routing in clustered environment

They are detailed in the attached document
about 6 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Sterling Control Center Having an alert on unhandled alerts

Can Control Center generate an alert if a previous alert is not marked as handled if x amount of time has expired?
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Not under consideration

More than one external authentication setup within Control Center

Within SEAS you can specify multiple authentication definitions that can contain different attribute query definitions however within control center you can only setup one external authentication server.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Future 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...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future 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....
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

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

IBM Control Center variable to get the IP of the B2Bi Node.

Hi Team, Is there any variable in IBM control center6.0 by which we can get the IP Address of Server/Sterling B2Bi Node? For suppose, I have installed B2Bi into 10.11.12.13 and node name is node1. While sending an alert mail to admin team I would ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

How to control the return URL of reports submitted to Cognos from IBM Control Center

When submitting a report in Control Center, or when opening a Cognos Studio session, the URL comes back to the client workstation with the server name and tries to connect on port 9300. How can this be configured to not expose the host name?
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Sterling Control Center interface with Enterprise Cognos BI

Currently SCC only utilizes it's own Cognos BI. Should be able to interface with Enterprise Cognos BI.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration