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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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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 reporting limitation needs to be greatly increased or removed

Currently, when running Cognos based reporting through SCC, there is a hard limit of 5000 records being returned. We need this increased since some days we have more than 100k files transferred or alerts that need to be reported for a time period ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Not under 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 ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future 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 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

Reports created in Cognos should be able to be scheudled and managed in SCC

The integration of Cognos has provided unending options for generating reports but anything created in Cognos is not visible to SCC for scheduling or management/modification through the GUI.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 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

Control Center 5.4.02

I have installed Control Center 5.4.02iFix01 on our test environment. I do not undersand why the email configuration piece was moved to the installation. Once installation is complete, I could still see the email tab in the system settings on the ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 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

Add enhancement for Control Center Wildcard slc's to be able to use source files

Add a field to wildcard slc's for source file. I know that in order to monitor a source file workflow slc's can be used. Our team has tried to utilize workflow slc's in the past, but they seem to be problematic for us.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

Custom KPI Reporting on SFG/B2Bi custom information

Our B2Bi Process based Framework is used by 300 partners and about 1,300 file transfer scenarios. Custom information (i.e. File Transfer scenario name, Support team email addresses, Criticality, Business Function, etc.. ) is stored in tables creat...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Not under consideration