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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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RHEL8/RH8 Support for IBM Control Center

Rather than installing a new instance of ICC and its components onto RHEL7 and then repeating the process again on RHEL8 once its supported. It'd be extremely useful to know dates sooner rather than later. Please advised when support for RHEL8...

Need to display source and destination folder in email alert

Our Managed File Transfer team is under tremendous pressure to migrate file transfers from legacy standalone FTP servers to the Sterling Managed File Transfer solution. An incredibly influential business unit needs both the source/producer and des...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 0 Delivered

New columns available in ICC reports Sterling B2B Integrator File Transfer

Adding new columns are not currently available (File Source, Destination File, Mailbox Path, MailboxID).It will be of great value that these columns are disponibilizas as "Available Columns" in the report of type "Sterling B2B Integrator File Tran...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 2 Delivered

Saving Filters in Control Center

We have a lot of users of SCC that monitor file transfers on a daily basis using the Select Statistics function of SCC. They would like the ability to save the filter they create and run so it can be accessed again instead of having to create a br...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Delivered

Sterling Control Center Java thick client Admin UI functionality needs to ported over to the web based Admin UI

System : Sterling Control Center (SCC)Actor : MFT Administrators Presently to setup, install and configure SCC, we need to use Java thick client which is a Java WS application connecting on non-standard ports and requiring a Windows jump server to...

Password Standards

WebSphere can not handle special characters in the password, you need to limit it to alphanumeric. Security and Risk standards dictate special characters being used in all passwords for strength.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Delivered

Hold, release, and Deleted from Queued Activity on Web Console

Prior to 6.1, a user could hold, release, and delete processes from the Queued Activity Monitor on the Java console. It seems that this functionality is not present in the Web console for 6.1.+ This is needed ASAP!
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 2 Delivered

Duplicate rules and/or actions in Control Center 6.2.1

Prior to version 6.2, rules and/or actions could be duplicated by using the classic console. During the duplication action, the user changes the necessary information in order to make the new rule/action unique. I don't see a way to do this in ver...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Delivered

Add more SUBMIT traps for Control Center for Connect Direct File Agent

Additional SUBMIT traps have been added to Control Center 6.0.0.1 with Connect Direct File Agent 1.4 iFix021 or higher. While some of these are useful, there still is not one available that tells which File Agent rule was updated.

Control Center: Add Free Text Field tab for slc's

Please add a tab to Control Center slc's where slc managers can enter free text. It could allow them to add instructions/additional information.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Delivered