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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...
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...

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IBM Control Center Unable to Update Mainframe SPOE

Unable to add, delete or modify a zOS mainframes SPOE from Control Center.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Delivered

Control Center 6.1 - Web Console Enhancement #2

It seems that some functionality has been removed from the Web console in version 6.1 that was there in version 6.0.0.1. In 6.0.0.1 from the Active Alerts screen a user could filter what they wanted to see. I do not see any way of doing this in ve...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Delivered

Control Center 6.1.0.1 - Initiate Shutdown of EP from Web Console

Since much of the functionality is being moved to the Web console, it would be great if an admin could shutdown an event processor (one they're not logged on) and initiate the shutdown. Maybe even a system wide shutdown. The admin and other users ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration / Usability 1 Delivered

Control Center 6.1.0.1 - High Availability Environment - Enable Multiple SNMP Listeners

Reference Multiple SNMP listeners for Connect Direct File Agent needed (102474) RTC ID: 533097. In a Control Center High Availability environment, a monitored File Agent can only be monitored by one event processor. Control Center needs to be desi...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered

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.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Delivered

Control Center 6.1 - WebSphere Application Server improved logging

Not sure if anyone else is having this issue, but we have 6.1 installed on a test environment. I have two EP's on the same server. Sometimes, a WebSphere application server will just stop unexpectantly and it is difficult for me at least to tell f...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Delivered

Enhancement request for Control Center 6.1 Web Console

The new Web Console design does have a nice look. However, there seems to be a lot of wasted space (white space). Reduce the space between rows. For example, on the Active Alerts and Queued Activity screens, there is too much space between each ro...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Delivered

Change password capability at ICC web UI

Our banking client in Middle East requests that an non-admin user should be able to change his/her own password at web UI. You can do this via thick client however client wants to have that capability at web UI since it is the roadmap of ICC and m...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Delivered

SSO (Single Sign-On) integration with SCC

Currently in SCC there are two options to manage users' passwords. First one uses SCC internal store of users and passwords, second one uses Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) via IBM Sterling External Authentication Server (SEAS). What ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 2 Delivered

deploy (Integration Flow Designer + sdeploy.exe) only support FTP. Can support for SFTP be added ?

We are working with WTX 8.4.1 with launcher on AIX. To deploy from Windows to AIX only FTP is supported in both sdeploy.exe and Integration Flow Designer. It would be more secure if SFTP could be chosen as protocol for transferring .mmc,.msl and u...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 2 Delivered