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Credential enumeration

Credential enumeration occurs when an attacker can determine the validity of credentials by observing responses in the application and identifying differences between correct and incorrect responses. Attackers may be able to use this vulnerability...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 2 Delivered

More Flexibility Needed for Control Center Web Console time out.

I know that in Control Center 6.1.3, the maximum amount of time for the Web console is 30 minutes. Please add an enhancement that gives administrators more flexibility in expanding this beyond 30 minutes. This is needed for our shop because the Ba...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Delivered

Single Sign On for IBM Control Center using IBM Sterling Secure Proxy

Implementation of Single Sign On for IBM Control Center using IBM Sterling Secure Proxy, similar to myfilegateway for Sterling File Gateway for external trading partners : In a IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Global Implementation, for a external t...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Delivered

ICC Support of SMTP with SSL/TLS encryption

Most modern SMTP Service require SMTP/s to leverage their services. IBM B2Bi supports this but ICC does not. This makes it hard to find an SMTP service that meets or clients email needs.

Option to disable client authentication for Sterling Control Center Classic Console

Currently, our company will access Sterling Control Center Classic Console through desktop. With client authentication enabled for SCC, we need to maintain separate scripts on each user desktop. This will be overhead in maintaining multiple certs ...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 2 Delivered

Control Center needs the ability to pull account passwords from a corporate password manager/vault

Due to security requirements and best practices, passwords should be changed periodically and wherever possible, should not be stored on local systems in text/XML files, etc. Control Center should have an option to utilize external Password Vault ...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 2 Delivered

Add SLC group description in variables list

My idea is to add a variable called &groupDesc; to use the SLC group description. during an email body creation in an Action. ICC can already read that value and use it because its default email already shows the GroupDescriotion value and it ...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 3 Delivered

Control Center Rule Correlation

Two of the things we utilize Control Center for is SLC notification and processes that do not end successfully. We have some transmissions that are monitored on SLCs that are contractual (sla). We do get an alert if the sla transmission has not st...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 4 Delivered

Control Center 6.1 and above - Control Center SLC Debug Report

After Control Center 5.3.04, the SLC Debug Report gets created on the file system of the Control Center application server. I understand that IBM's reason for moving it to the file system was for security reasons, but there has got to be a way tha...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 1 Delivered

Hold, release, and Deleted from Queued Activity on Web Console

Prior to 6.1, a user could hold, release, and delete processes from the Queued Activity Monitor on the Java console. It seems that this functionality is not present in the Web console for 6.1.+ This is needed ASAP!
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 2 Delivered