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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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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...
almost 7 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...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

More granularity on scheduling of Control Center configuration updates

The ability to run configuration updates in Control Center needs to have more options than run daily at a specific time or never. Large environments cannot handle daily runs and should be able to be scheduled via a calendar option. It would also b...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Future consideration

Ability to view Secure Proxy configurations via Control Center

When the Sterling Secure Proxy platform is connected, need to be able to view the connection information contained within the environment, similar to what is available for Connect:Direct connections. Being able to view the audit log for changes is...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 4 Functionality already exists

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.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Planned for future release

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.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

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.
almost 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...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 0 Not under consideration

Highlight False Relevancy

First off, I can't find anything that would be close to a Bigfix product in the product drop down. So, please route this and fix the drop down.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Is a defect

API for Handling Alerts

Please develop an API for handling Control Center alerts. Internal applications that use Control Center data would benefit from this.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Functionality already exists