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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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Centralized password file for Control Center connection IDs

The connection ID and password has to be configured for each Connect:Direct node added to Control Center. The password in use has to be changed on a regular basis requiring that all nodes using that particular ID and password be touched on a month...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Control Center 6.0 and 6.1 - Enhance Connect Direct Process Details Report

I noticed that the Connect Direct Process Details report does not display the source file. Please add this as an available column. This is helpful information especially when the source file may be a gdg or have a date and time stamp. I realize th...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Improve Control Center Calendars

There needs to be more flexibility with Control Center calendars. Let's say for example, I need a calendar for January, April, July, and October to be daily. The way calendar maintenance currently works, if I select all of the active days for thos...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Secure Connectivity to HP Nonstop C:D Nodes

Currently Control Center doesn't have the capability to logon to HP Nonstop C:D nodes using a secure logon.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Functionality already exists

Unlimited timeout for a user on Web Dashboard

Our 24/7 monitoring needs all dashboards running all time; so no logout or timeout for a given user.Please make this functionality available for web based dashboards for Control center.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

Control Center 6.1 - Conf Migrated from other server - EP's from old server

When a Control Center 6.1 configuration that has multiple EP's that is migrated to a new server, the EP's from the old server appear in the new setup. Why can't the EP's from the old configuration be deleted during installation or by running the c...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Control Center OpenVMS Support

We would like IBM Control Center to be able to monitor and manage C:D nodes on the OpenVMS platform.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Not under consideration

SFTP known host key fetch through Legacy InFlight instead of POD

Currently we do not have option to fetch known host key while setting up SFTP profile on Legacy InFlight although it is mandatory to import it to profile in order to connect to partner's SFTP. Right now procedure we follow is to fetch the knowhost...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Add feature in the SPE to list outbound ST, GS envelopes based on ISA IDs.

We have got requests sometimes from customer asking to list their SAP Sold to ID Codes based on the ISA IDs. These IDs/TP codes will be SAP Sold to customer ID numbers which will usually be ST envelope's receiver ID. In SPE, for outbound envel...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Not under consideration

Enhance PDF to type tree importer

Currently PDF to type tree importer doesn't work on extensibility on field or data level. Also most version of PDF are not supported. The enhancement of this importing would make is feature more user friend and product usability would increase
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Not under consideration