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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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Implement the use of LDAP without the need of IBM External Authentication Server

In order to implement the use of LDAP for authenticating to Control Center, it is a requirement to use IBM External Authentication Server. There should be a way of doing so without implementing another product that has be installed, configured, an...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Not under consideration

External User should not add in ICC clasic console when we have configured LDAP to authenticate external users

IBM Control Center authenticates with LDAP if we created external users specifically in ICC classic console though we have configured LDAP with SEAS. The Feature Should be as below: 1.) ICC should validate if the user is local or external. If us...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

It should be possible for Control Center to handle multiple SSL/TLS keys in its keystore

Currently can Control Center only work with one unique key in its keystore. When using SEAS authentication this certificate must be defined with both Server and Client Authentication Enhanced Key Usage (EKU). It should be possible (as any other co...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Not under consideration

Add parameter for Oracle DB Connection String

When operating in an Oracle custer invironment it would be useful to be able to provide a DB connection string as paramter when carryng out configCC.sh. Reason: If only IP is provided itmay happen that a DB switch in the background causes system t...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration

ICC New datetime field - Custom API

The bank is trying to leverage the ICC SLC process to track whether a file has met its SLC.We are having applications (ie. SFG components and other custom applications) raising MQ events with time stamp to start and end SLC of a file.We then wrote...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Automated Cognos reconfiguration for High Availability

Installing ICC in a High Availability environment requires steps taken to reconfigure Cognos as detailed here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS4Q96_6.1.1/com.ibm.help.scc.install.doc/scc_ensure_cognos_server_connection_HA.html Thes...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration

Control Center: Implement Secure Connections without shutting down the engine

If it is possible to implement, I believe this would be useful to Control Center users and administrators because it would reduce down time for Control Center.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Sterling Control Center Having an alert on unhandled alerts

Can Control Center generate an alert if a previous alert is not marked as handled if x amount of time has expired?
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Duration Schedule SLC-Generated Message -CSLC043E does not contain detailed information

We have designed one Work flow SLC with Metadata Rule and actions to work on events posted by ITXA. There is also one rule created based on message id: CSLC043E , Event Type: SLC Notification to trigger an alert if Workflow/Milestone/Step/Process ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Not under consideration

SNMP Trap DateTime format issue

SNMP trap datetime format generated from Sterling Control Center always in UTC format irrespective of datetime config. in SCC settings while requirement is to generate the datetime format in ETC OR as per the configuration presents in the ICC sett...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration