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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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Sterling Control Center Audit Log Data Capture

Per http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS4Q96_5.4.1/com.ibm. help.scc.reports.doc/SCC_SCC_Internal_Tables.html, the AUDIT_LOG is not available to third-party reporting tools? Can IBM recommend any other way to obtain the AUDIT_LOG data oth...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Delivered

Control center needs to capture the events that have State = haled only and not status = error

Control center is capturing all the events with return code =0. But some of these error are handled by SI and need to be ignored. We would need a rule to be able to check if the event has -3
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Delivered

SCC limit to 200 inputs

Problem Description: ENV: Sterling Control Center 5.4.1 DESC: SCC limit to 200 inputs. Standart SSC restricts the number of checking to 200 for a monitor. The maximum value for the "max completed processes" property is 200 thatis not enough to mon...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Delivered

Control Center Web Console Select Statistics Returning Oldest Data in Database

Web console version of Control Center, when selecting statistics for a server, returns (attempts) all of the statistics for the server selected by default during the initial selection. Our environment holds 90 days of data, and the delay in return...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Delivered

Control Center SLC Debug Report

I am testing with version 5.4.2.1 and I learned that when I run the SLC Debug report, it now saves this report in the logs directory with the engine logs on the server where the Control Center engine runs. It was explained to me the reason why thi...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Delivered

Report creation should be extended to the Web Console

Report creation and modification options should be extended to the Web Admin Console.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Delivered

Add a search function when working with the different files in the System Configuration area of the Web console

In the Web console, System Configuration, Properties area, there are several "files" which can be updated. Once inside the file, it would be nice to have a search function so that the administrator can go to a specific area. Adding this functional...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Delivered

Certification of MSSQL 2016 for IBM Control Center 6.1.0.1

Our company is currently moving to MS SQL 2016 from SQL 2008, we need to be able to run IBM Control Center on SQL 2016. It has not yet been certified for SQL 2016.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 1 Delivered

Control Center 6.1 - Web Console Enhancement #3

I believe that IBM's objective is to move all of the functionality that is in the Java console to the Web console. There is some functionality that is available in both. One of these is rules management. On the Java console a user can duplicate an...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Delivered

In a Control Center High Availability environment, allow Control Center to handle multiple SNMP listener addresses

This RFE is associated with RFE: Multiple SMTP listeners for Connect Direct File Agent needed (102474). In a Control Center High Availability environment, allow Control Center to handle multiple SMNP listener addresses. For example, if I have a tw...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Delivered