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Sterling Control Center Director

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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

Add equivalent of cdai_verifyUpgrade parameter

For silent install, users get a chance to set upgrade options (parameters). One of those is cdai_verifyUpgrade which enables/disables step that performs loopback transfer after upgrade to verify if upgrade was successful. If loopback transfer is n...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 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

Manage/Configure iSeries from ICC

Configuration of Connect Direct and secure+ should be a standard across all supported platforms. Allowing centralised configuration off all connected nodes from within ICC, as to tool was intended for...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Not under consideration

Refresh all configurations of managed servers on Control Center

Currently, you can have Control Center check for configuration changes daily at a specific time. However, if an authorized user is making multiple configuration changes to multiple servers, they may want to be able to refresh all of the configurat...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Future consideration

More granularity on scheduling of Control Center configuration updates

The ability to run configuration updates in Control Center needs to have more options than run daily at a specific time or never. Large environments cannot handle daily runs and should be able to be scheduled via a calendar option. It would also b...
almost 7 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

Customized Alerting Blackout Periods

We need the ability to set custom times for each node where if the node goes down it doesn't alert. We are looking to use Control Center to monitor multiple Connect:Directs throughout the company and a majority of the CD nodes have different maint...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Future consideration

Use Configuration Management with SCC to view available CD configuration without FULL CD access.

Using CDz (Mainframe Connect Direct) user with Operator Authority does not allow to view the available CD configuration using ICC - no 'Configure Server' option available in ICC.The same user used through CD Browser or directly using NDM API allow...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 2 Functionality already exists