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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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IBM Control Center Support AD windows authentication method for SQL server database

To meet Industry security standards to authenticate to Enterprise Active Directory tool
about 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Not under consideration

Control Center 6.0 Reports Enhancement

Please add the ability to save a report before actually running it. Now with the introduction of Cognos, it takes a considerable amount of time to run reports. When a user is trying to create a new report, version 6.0 forces the user to run the re...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

User management between SCC and Cognos

As of today, the user management for Cognos is done through a java security call to SCC, that provides dummy user/password to be able to run report. We do not have the possibility to create users in SCC that can connect to the cognos dispatcher, a...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

SCC - getting transfer statistics through REST calls

Today, it is possible since 5.4.x version to use REST api to request information from SCC.We lack a request to get the statistics details of a transfer based on its process id for example.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 2 Not under consideration

Enhance SLC Recovery when CC Engine is back up

I just recently learned this from pmr 93249,442,000. If Control Center is shutdown and then bring it back up it will not go check on a SLC that should have started prior to coming back up. This is an issue. There may have been something important ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 1 Not under consideration

Monitor SI schedules and Routing Rules in SCC

Currently SI related schedules and Routing rules does not get monitored in SCC. Some of the SI related schedules are very critical and important for Customer, if that can get disabled then file processing does not happened. Similarly if Routing r...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Implement the use of LDAP without the need of IBM External Authentication Server

In order to implement the use of LDAP for authenticating to Control Center, it is a requirement to use IBM External Authentication Server. There should be a way of doing so without implementing another product that has be installed, configured, an...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Not under 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 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under 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 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

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...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 0 Not under consideration