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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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Option to Save C:D Configurations Locally within Control Center

We would like the ability to save Connect:Direct configurations (initparm, userfile, netmap, secure+...)within Control Center. In the event of a true disaster this would allow Control Center to push the configs out to the node to quickly get a C:D...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

enhance Type tree importer for flat files

ITX has / had an importer for flat files. This is tedious to use. This request is to enhance the importer. Can it be modeled like a text to column importer in Excelcan it receive its definitions from a csv and be based on the APIs that can be exte...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Functionality already exists

Allow variable use in arrays

WTX does not support the use of a variable in an array. So this request is to add this feature in future WTX/ITX releases.That is, a variable can not be used in an indexed field.For example, you can not use Name[INDEX($)] or Name[x], where x being...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Functionality already exists

SEAS RFE to make generic authentication more robust

According to the SEAS L3 team this is basically working as designed. The Generic authentication do come with limitation, your user will be mapped to 1 user, in your case, this is admin user.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

ControlCenter ActiveAlerts can be assigned to dedicated Person(/Admin)

ControlCenter ActiveAlerts can be designed to a dedicated Person/Admin.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

Requesting archiving for partitioned database

System Settings, database has archiving functionality for non-partitioned databases. We are requesting a similar utility be designed for partitioned databases.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

Control Center (6.0): Control Center Reports URL Address

When a report is run from Control Center, another window is open and in the address bar of the window is the host name of the server where Control Center is running. Depending on the environment, this page may not display unless a user changes the...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Functionality already exists

Use Configuration Management with SCC to view available CD configuration without FULL CD access.

Using CDz (Mainframe Connect Direct) user with Operator Authority does not allow to view the available CD configuration using ICC - no 'Configure Server' option available in ICC.The same user used through CD Browser or directly using NDM API allow...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 2 Functionality already exists

converting Node reservation(node1) into Node Demand(node2)

For DFS(delivery from store) often times a reservation made against a store may have to be reassigned to a different store due to inventory reasons. The legacy OMS makes the determination to resource to the second node. Note: For this implementati...
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Functionality already exists