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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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Control Center: Enhance the SLC Summary Report

Please enhance the SLC Summary report so that a server name can be selected. A user may not want a summary of all of the slc, but maybe just the ones from a specific server. Currently no filtering criteria available for this report.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

Sterling Control Center to handle all events for Sterling Secure Proxy Configuration Manager

System : SCCActor is SSP CM / Websphere MQ Presently Sterling Control Center (SCC) event monitoring from Sterling Secure Proxy Configuration Manager (SSPCM) via Websphere MQ only works on few alerts, We need all events coming from SSPCM to Websphe...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

Control Center Quarterly Recurrence Calendar

Currently when creating a new Control Center calendar, the only recurrence selections available are daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly. I believe it would be useful to add a quarterly recurrence as well.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Secure Connectivity to iSeries C:D Nodes

Currently Control Center doesn't have the capability to logon to iSeries C:D nodes using a secure logon.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Planned for future release

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...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Provide documentation for importing Control Center to a new server

Much of Control Center installation documentation is focused on doing so in place on an existing server. Please provide detailed documentation for migrating to a new server. For example, we currently have a production 6.0.0.1 environment and the d...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Documentation 0 Planned for future release

Add DVG and submitter ID fields to All File Transfer Services APIs in Control Center 6.1

Requesting to add submitter and data visibility group (DVG) to all file transfer services APIs, especially Get Completed Files List and Read FileTransfers. Current APIs are limited and there is no way to restrict the return results per partner/sub...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Add Control Center functionality to monitor MQ MFT server over encrypted channel

Add functionality for Control Center to monitor MQ MFT servers over an encrypted channel.Any connections between Control Center and a monitored server regardless of type should allow for encrypted communications.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Planned for future release

Add red asterisks in front of required fields (same as tables already does)

This is already a feature within tables... it should be everywhere else to match.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Planned for future release

CX/ZOS PI07 received Window > 16 should be accepted

CX/ZOS should accept a PI07 received with a window greater than the max of CX/ZOS, 16. And return a PI07 with the window as defined in the session table
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Usability 0 Planned for future release