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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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Configure Alerts for 'Start Failed' Status of Adapters in B2B Integrator

Hi Team, We have alert email in place when the adapter goes to 'Stopped' status. However alert emails are not sent whenever the Adapter status goes to 'Start Failed'. How to capture this event and trigger an email ? . Business impact ( BusImpact )...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Add TrackingID as a variable that can be passed from B2Bi

TrackingID can be optionally enabled in a B2Bi business process. If it is passed to SCC it can be used to good advantage as a correlator in a workflow SLC to track documents as they are handled by a sequence of business processes. This is a reques...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Future consideration

Cluster statistics utility - queue and thread monitoring

A utility is required that logs queue usage on each node in a Sterling Integrator cluster The utility should track queue usage over time by node and for each node be able to provide statistics (eg. average, min, max, count) for a time period on: Q...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Contol Center needs to have a contingency synchronization function

Control Center needs to have a configuration synchronization feature that keeps all of the non-server specific configuration items in sync with a contingency instance of SCC that is not running but shares a synchronized database. Manually copying ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Identify changes made by upgrade/install

We have made config changes to the SCC config that reside outside of the system. When we upgrade, those changes are sometimes overwritten by the installer. We need a way to know if custom install/config changes are impacted on upgrade.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 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...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future 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.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 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...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Provide Option to export in Jar file while using export Command Line Utility

In Sterling Integrator, export command line utility, export.sh, is available under <INSTALL_DIR>/tp_import directory. It is currently having export options as XML (Default), WAR file. There are no options to do export in JAR file format.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Certify all components of Sterling suite to be use in virtual machines of clouds platforms like Azure, AWS, bluemix, etc.

Many customers are moving there infrastructure to the cloud, as a company that use computing services of IBM, the needs of our customers are essentials, so we need that the sterling suite must be compatible like on premise, with the O.S most use l...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Planned for future release