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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...
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...

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Improve Control Center Calendars

There needs to be more flexibility with Control Center calendars. Let's say for example, I need a calendar for January, April, July, and October to be daily. The way calendar maintenance currently works, if I select all of the active days for thos...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Add DVG to SNMP Alerts

We have a requirement to send DVG in a SNMP trap; DVG is available in the event but there is no field in SNMP to reflect that. Could you please add DVG in the SNMP trap.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under 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...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Display SNode User ID (SNODEID) value in log fetched via SCC or CD API

Information about used SNODEID (SNode User ID) option is present in log displayed in CD Requested and "direct.exe" CLI but it is not displayed in SCC or via CD API (JAI). Please extend SCC and CD API to display SNODEID option usage.
about 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.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Not under consideration

Control Center 6.1 - Conf Migrated from other server - EP's from old server

When a Control Center 6.1 configuration that has multiple EP's that is migrated to a new server, the EP's from the old server appear in the new setup. Why can't the EP's from the old configuration be deleted during installation or by running the c...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Add DVG and submitter ID fields to All File Transfer Services APIs in Control Center 6.1

Requesting to add submitter and data visibility group (DVG) to all file transfer services APIs, especially Get Completed Files List and Read FileTransfers. Current APIs are limited and there is no way to restrict the return results per partner/sub...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

Control Center OpenVMS Support

We would like IBM Control Center to be able to monitor and manage C:D nodes on the OpenVMS platform.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Control Center 6.1 Move server.xml file settings to database

Currently in version 6.1 a timeout value can be added to the server.xml file which is located in the installation directory under web\wlp\usr\servers\defaultServer. The IBM documentation says to add a parameter invalidationTimeout= and put the val...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Control Center 6.1 - Eliminate "This user is already logged into IBM Control Center web console" Message

Currently if a user is already logged onto the Web console and logs in again, they receive the message "This user is already logged into IBM Control Center web console". We would like to have a way of either turning this message off or customize t...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration