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Sterling Control Center Director

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SCCD deploy xlate tables

We need to use SCCD to deploy user configured xlate tables to CD Linux and CD Windows servers. We have more than 2100 servers, and if we need to change the xlate tables in all of them one by one, the cost in hours it's not affordable.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 2 Functionality already exists

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

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

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

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

Monitor Aspera Nodes

It would be great idea if we can have monitoring enabled for Aspera Nodes and secure proxy, the reason I would say is as Aspera provides one of the MFT solution which enables us to transfer huge data and since it has the ability to do so lot of or...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 5 Not under consideration

Propagate configuration via batch

This new idea is to request that Sterling Control Center Director allow configuration propagation, in this case from Connect:Direct (userfile, netmap, InitPams, Secure+), via Batch, and not just via the graphical interface.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 3 Functionality already exists

Add Link to Web Start Page for Control Center Director API's.

The current Web Start Page has a link for Control Center API's but the choices available only apply to Control Center Monitor and not Control Center Director
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 2 Functionality already exists

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

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

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