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Sterling Control Center Director

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Create a feature in CCD to Create / renewal a Connect Direct Certificate

The current process is to use openssl/ikeyman tools to create Cert request. This cert request get uploaded to CA to receive a signed certificate. This signed certificated is downloaded and a keystore is created. This keystore is then uploaded to C...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Planned for future release

Enable CCD to deploy patches in Iseries and Tandem estate

We have a significant tandem and iseries estate in the organisation. Following a CCD process to upgrade a patching on these platforms will create a standard CD patching across the estate.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Not under consideration

Create a back out process for CD Windows patching

The current version of CD patching via CCD does not have a process to back out the patch incase of issues. The ask is to create a backout process and trigger it via CCD console if need be.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1

Control Center Director/Monitor - Updating Key and Trust store databases

Currently in order for CCM/CCD to be "aware" of change made to the key and/or trust store databases, the event processors (application) must be down. The configCC.bat/sh must be run in order to make CCM/CCD aware of the changes. There needs to be ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Future consideration

Add zOS SPOE information to Control Center Director

Access to the SPOE (Single Point of Entry) zOS table via Control Center Director would allow the team to at least be able to view the existing entries and assist in possible trouble shooting of issues involved that may require an update to that ta...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Future consideration

An enhancement request with Product Management to add support for AWS RDS SQL*Server and/or AWS RDS Postgres with Kerberos authentication.

We are migrating existing SQL*Server database (w/ Kerberos authentication) to AWS RDS platform. Current C::D Control Center does NOT support AWS RDS (any databases, such as Postgres). We won;t be able to configure Control Center as IT IS NOT MEET ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Future consideration

Perform checkouts before actual upgrade

Please consider to move or duplicate some of the checks before actual upgrade action. For example - cfgcheck can be initiated before upgrade action, this will eliminate situation where e.g. error in netmap.cfg/userfile.cfg causes rollback action a...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Future consideration

Make package.folderWatchDelayInSecs Available in System Settings

My understanding is that the settings for package.folderWatchDelayInSecs are only available through the RESTful API. This setting along with all settings should be made available in the system settings as well.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 2 Future consideration

Prevent Netmap Node deletion if node is referenced by a Functional Authority

When an admin retires a netmap node that is no longer needed, sometimes we end up with an orphaned Functional Authority (FA) referencing a now non-existent netmap node. To prevent this from occurring, a new functionality could be created where Con...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 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

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