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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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More Robust Search Options in SCC web client

In the Sterling Control Center Web Client, under the Monitor, Completed File Transfers screen... We would like to see more robust search criteria. Currently it is allowing us to search based on data, server, filename and status. Our biggest use of...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

SCC to support SNMPv3

We implemented IBM Sterling Commerce as our standard file transfer service. Currently, our Control Center is sending traps using SNMPv2. Our primary interest is in being able to receive and send SNMPv3 traps as v2 comes with a lot security vulnera...

Control Center: File Agent notification for "*** File cannot be processed...May be FTPied in... ***"

Need File Agent notification for "*** File cannot be processed...May be FTPied in... ***" situation.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Request for a new option non_durable in ICC

The monitor target is IBM MQMFT. MQ application has a non-durable option, but that is not supported by ICC. It is a critical option so that ICC can set it to non-durable to avoid fill up the local file system on the MQ server due to a high volume ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Future consideration

Control Center (6.0): Control Center Reports URL Address

When a report is run from Control Center, another window is open and in the address bar of the window is the host name of the server where Control Center is running. Depending on the environment, this page may not display unless a user changes the...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Functionality already exists

Control Center: statRecordIds File

I've been doing some testing with the statRecordIds file on our test environment. Today I realized that more attention needs to be given to this file. You are probably wondering what do I mean? Here is a possible situation below. A site is running...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Control Center: Enhance the SLC Summary Report

Please enhance the SLC Summary report so that a server name can be selected. A user may not want a summary of all of the slc, but maybe just the ones from a specific server. Currently no filtering criteria available for this report.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

Control Center Email Action Ehancement

I recently learned that in a Control Center email action, if the body of the email action is left blank, it will return all of the available variables for the rule parameters you have set. I did some testing where I removed all of the variables I ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Future 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...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

IBM Control Center variable to get the IP of the B2Bi Node.

Hi Team, Is there any variable in IBM control center6.0 by which we can get the IP Address of Server/Sterling B2Bi Node? For suppose, I have installed B2Bi into 10.11.12.13 and node name is node1. While sending an alert mail to admin team I would ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists