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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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Need to have an override property file to prevent wipe of customized settings

With higher volume customers it is common to require customization to property files, especially engine.properties and Engine.log4j. However, with application of an iFix or FixPack (or upgrade), there is a risk that these settings will be lost. B2...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Linux systemd IBM Control Center auto boot system unit file

Develop and test example IBM Control Center linux autoboot systemd control script since systemd is replacing init.d for RHEL 7 and other linux distributions.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

More Robust Search Options in SCC web client

In the Sterling Control Center Web Client, under the Monitor, Completed File Transfers screen... We would like to see more robust search criteria. Currently it is allowing us to search based on data, server, filename and status. Our biggest use of...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Control Center authentication and control

For shops that are not using IBM Sterling External Authentication Server to authenticate to Control Center and are using the Control Center authentication, there is currently no way to set an expiration period for a user's password or forcing the ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Future consideration

Log Standards

Some customers has the need to read the logs using some realtime observability tools, such as Prometheus, Splunk. There is some difficulties on integrating those actual logs of Sterling B2B Integrator with the new standards. This request has the g...
about 19 hours ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Monitoring SEAS/SSP certificates

For now, Control Center Monitor able to monitor the certificates in CD and ICC certificates. It will be useful if we can monitor the B2Bi SEAS and SSP certificates also.
9 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Improve the Secure + Key Certificates Report and Trusted Certificates Report

Please add the validity dates (start and expiration) to the Secure + Key Certificates Report and the Trusted Certificates Report. This is useful information that is often needed and would assist in the management of key and trusted certificates.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 5 Planned for future release

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 Th...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration

Template for Holiday Schedule

Please add a feature to allow for exclusion template we can apply to all SLC instead of having to go into each SLC and select the exclusions.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

IBM Countrol Center File transfer count threshold

I have a scenario as below.Generate alerts when an expected traffic (transaction count) from a customer is above or below the defined threshold. This threshold value should be configurable based on the partner and transaction type. This should als...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Future consideration