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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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Duration Schedule SLC-Generated Message -CSLC043E does not contain detailed information

We have designed one Work flow SLC with Metadata Rule and actions to work on events posted by ITXA. There is also one rule created based on message id: CSLC043E , Event Type: SLC Notification to trigger an alert if Workflow/Milestone/Step/Process ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Not under consideration

SNMP Trap DateTime format issue

SNMP trap datetime format generated from Sterling Control Center always in UTC format irrespective of datetime config. in SCC settings while requirement is to generate the datetime format in ETC OR as per the configuration presents in the ICC sett...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Cognos reporting does not return MQ return codes - Refer PMR 34702,442,000

When we run Cognos report, we filter based on Event Return Code under MQMFT FIle Transfer Report, it never comes with return codes as 40.We can see the return codes coming as 0,1,2 and 8 instead of standard MQ FTE return codes like 20,40 etc.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Configuracion Oracle RAC

Problem Description: We need to configure Oracle balancer RAC for Control Center. The following configuration is working at SQL developer and Sterling B2Bi jdbc:oracle:thin:@(DESCRIPTION_LIST=(LOAD_BALANCE=OFF)(FAILOVER=ON) (DESCRIPTION=(CONNECT_T...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration

Control Center 6.0 Reports Enhancement

Please add the ability to save a report before actually running it. Now with the introduction of Cognos, it takes a considerable amount of time to run reports. When a user is trying to create a new report, version 6.0 forces the user to run the re...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

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

AUTH NTLM authentication

Currently the IBM Control Center supports SMTP AUTH LOGIN only with, and our environment is set up for the authentication method of your SMTP server is NTLM auth. We need the control center IBM's application has 2 methods for authentication via SMTP.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 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

SEAS needs ability for 2 factor authentication via RADIUS protocol

Need ability to have 2 factor authentication when connecting to applications using SEAS for authentication. Using RADIUS protocol to allow for token authentication would be the preferable method.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Not under consideration

LDAP integration with Sterling Control Center

Sterling Control Center should be able to interface directly with LDAP to authenticate without the addition of Sterling External Authentication Server.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 3 Not under consideration