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Secure Connectivity to iSeries C:D Nodes

Currently Control Center doesn't have the capability to logon to iSeries C:D nodes using a secure logon.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Control Center 6.0.0.1 and 6.1: Need support for MS SQL Server (ALWAYSON)

Please test and verify if Control Center 6.0.0.1 and 6.1 can support a MS SQL Server ALWAYSON environment. If not, please add an enhancement for this. Thanks.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

Control Center 6.0.0.1 Support for SQL Server 2014

The detailed system requirements for Control Center 6.0.0.1 only list SQL Server 2008 and 2012. We need support for SQL Server 2014. Thanks.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to Select Statistics via CCAPI directly from monitored Connect:Direct server and not from Control Center database

Currently there is no possibility to display Select Statistics from Connect:Direct node via CCAPI *directly* from Connec:Direct server (it is possible using CDJAI but not CCAPI). Current solution allows to display only those Select Statistics that...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 0 Not under consideration

Alert to potential duplicate files

If CCM sees multiple instances of the same filename of the same size uploaded to the same SFG/B2Bi mailbox within a configurable time period then it should alert to it as a possible duplicate. This cannot be done using SLCs currently. It should no...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Submitted

Monitor and alert on expiring SFG/B2Bi certificates and keys

Control Center already provides monitoring and alerting on certificates used in SSP and C:D. SFG transfers using protocols such as FTPS, AS/2, and EBICS also rely on certificates with SFTP transfers relying on SSH keys to secure them. Where SFG is...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Submitted

Control Center Monitor should alert us when connectivity is lost between SI and MQ server

We want to be alerted by Control Center Monitor if connectivity is lost between SI and MQ server.
6 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 1 Under review

AD/LDAP authentication in ICC

Currently we are required to use SEAS for LDAP authentication. However, using SEAS as any tool will add more resources to the worker pool. While deploying SEAS does not require a license, there is a cost involved in adding CPU and memory to SEAS P...
10 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Under review

Ability To Test Actions

After setting up an Action, you are unable to test it without adding it to a rule, and then manually triggering the rule. This is very time consuming when you're trying to verify configuration of the action. I would like there to be a test button ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Future consideration

User should be able to use variable in Send email >To field under the action.

Currently, we are only able to provide mail ids only when we create the action in Control Center Monitor. IN our project, we are using meta data and we want to use the meta data variable in Send email so that as per server, email should get to own...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Planned for future release