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Control Center (6.0): Enhance SLC Summary Report

Currently, the only SLC report available in Control Center is the SLC Summary Report. I would like to be able to specify a particular server and get the number of process that are monitored on slcs. This functionality is not currently available. B...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Control Center: statRecordIds File

I've been doing some testing with the statRecordIds file on our test environment. Today I realized that more attention needs to be given to this file. You are probably wondering what do I mean? Here is a possible situation below. A site is running...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Add more SUBMIT traps for Control Center for Connect Direct File Agent

Additional SUBMIT traps have been added to Control Center 6.0.0.1 with Connect Direct File Agent 1.4 iFix021 or higher. While some of these are useful, there still is not one available that tells which File Agent rule was updated.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Control Center: Add Free Text Field tab for slc's

Please add a tab to Control Center slc's where slc managers can enter free text. It could allow them to add instructions/additional information.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 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 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Configuration management should have an approval process for changes

There should be an approval process built into SCC for making changes with the Configure Servers functions. Adding an optional hook to make a call to a change management system for validation would be even better. The change process should include...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

Externalize the ability to add/remove users from IBM Control Center without giving full admin authority

Need the ability in Control Center to create a group that has the authority to add/remove users but does not have the ability to make other changes in Control Center. This currently does not exist in the product, as in order to be able to grant us...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Add user specific information to Control Center web login and dashboard pages

Control Center web console login page is currently a base page of nothing but a login and password with bare minimum information. The ability is needed to be able to customize that page for our environment. Warning banner for the user that this is...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration / Usability 0 Future consideration

More granularity on scheduling of Control Center configuration updates

The ability to run configuration updates in Control Center needs to have more options than run daily at a specific time or never. Large environments cannot handle daily runs and should be able to be scheduled via a calendar option. It would also b...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Future consideration

Security Admin Role

Create a Security Admin Role that can add/delete id's in all roles and not have access to any other administration permissions such as being able to administer the application, add nodes, etc. This role is for the Security group to manage the priv...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration