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Control Center List processes in Rules

In an environment like ours, we have numerous file transmissions that are monitored by Control Center. There are several process names that we ignore by having a rule where the action = no operation. One option is to build multiple rules that are ...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Not under consideration

SCC reporting limitation needs to be greatly increased or removed

Currently, when running Cognos based reporting through SCC, there is a hard limit of 5000 records being returned. We need this increased since some days we have more than 100k files transferred or alerts that need to be reported for a time period ...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Want to create email notification if Active Alert queue has exceeded the limit

I have looked throught the available message ID's for Control Center rules to see if it is possible to setup a rule in which I could create  an email notification of the Active Alert queue limit has exceeded and I did not s...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 1 Not under consideration

Centralized password file for Control Center connection IDs

The connection ID and password has to be configured for each Connect:Direct node added to Control Center. The password in use has to be changed on a regular basis requiring that all nodes using that particular ID and password be touched on a month...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

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...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration / Usability 1 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...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 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.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Not under consideration

SFTP known host key fetch through Legacy InFlight instead of POD

Currently we do not have option to fetch known host key while setting up SFTP profile on Legacy InFlight although it is mandatory to import it to profile in order to connect to partner's SFTP. Right now procedure we follow is to fetch the knowhost...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Add feature in the SPE to list outbound ST, GS envelopes based on ISA IDs.

We have got requests sometimes from customer asking to list their SAP Sold to ID Codes based on the ISA IDs. These IDs/TP codes will be SAP Sold to customer ID numbers which will usually be ST envelope's receiver ID. In SPE, for outbound envel...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Not under consideration

Enhance PDF to type tree importer

Currently PDF to type tree importer doesn't work on extensibility on field or data level. Also most version of PDF are not supported. The enhancement of this importing would make is feature more user friend and product usability would increase
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Not under consideration