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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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Add more SUBMIT traps for Control Center for Connect Direct File Agent

Additional SUBMIT traps have been added to Control Center 6.0.0.1 with Connect Direct File Agent 1.4 iFix021 or higher. While some of these are useful, there still is not one available that tells which File Agent rule was updated.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Control Center: Add Free Text Field tab for slc's

Please add a tab to Control Center slc's where slc managers can enter free text. It could allow them to add instructions/additional information.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Future consideration

Control Center SQL 2012 JDBC URL

ControlCenter database moved to sql 2012 high availability group with cluster members on multiple IP subnets. Need to be able to modify the database urls to include the parameter muultisubnetfailover=true, i.e url=jdbc:sqlserver://sql2012clusterna...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Functionality already exists

Restrict a user to one specific report

As of now we dont have option to restrict a particular user to specific reports ( either in standard SCC or reports created in cognos)
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Functionality already exists

SCC request for Blank Passwords in Functional Authorities/User Proxies

We are using ACF2 for our z/OS security package. As such we have batch accounts specifically for connect direct that are set with no passwords and can only be accessed via other secure JCL procedures. As such we can't manage them via the SCC Confi...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

SCC should secure Cognos using the same certificates as the SCC application by default

The integrated Cognos instance in SCC should be secured using the same certificate stores as the SCC application itself. I should not use a CAMUSER certificate signed by CA as the default when SCC has been secured using private certificates. This ...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration

Configuration management should have an approval process for changes

There should be an approval process built into SCC for making changes with the Configure Servers functions. Adding an optional hook to make a call to a change management system for validation would be even better. The change process should include...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

Extend Report formatting options in Cognos to the SCC interface

Report formatting options for page output should be present in SCC and not require the report to be created, scheduled, and then modified manually in Cognos. Page layout, fit to page, and other options should be part of the report definition in SC...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Externalize the ability to add/remove users from IBM Control Center without giving full admin authority

Need the ability in Control Center to create a group that has the authority to add/remove users but does not have the ability to make other changes in Control Center. This currently does not exist in the product, as in order to be able to grant us...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Add user specific information to Control Center web login and dashboard pages

Control Center web console login page is currently a base page of nothing but a login and password with bare minimum information. The ability is needed to be able to customize that page for our environment. Warning banner for the user that this is...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration / Usability 0 Future consideration