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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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Add support for date or variable date to be added to Report names and Email Subjects on Reports

When using Control Center to automate a daily report to provide all the previous days transmission details from our Connect:Direct instance the CC monitors we would like to indicate a date of previous day in the report name created but we could li...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Control Center: statRecordIds File

I've been doing some testing with the statRecordIds file on our test environment. Today I realized that more attention needs to be given to this file. You are probably wondering what do I mean? Here is a possible situation below. A site is running...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Control Center Email Action Ehancement

I recently learned that in a Control Center email action, if the body of the email action is left blank, it will return all of the available variables for the rule parameters you have set. I did some testing where I removed all of the variables I ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Future consideration

SCC request for Blank Passwords in Functional Authorities/User Proxies

We are using ACF2 for our z/OS security package. As such we have batch accounts specifically for connect direct that are set with no passwords and can only be accessed via other secure JCL procedures. As such we can't manage them via the SCC Confi...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Configuration management should have an approval process for changes

There should be an approval process built into SCC for making changes with the Configure Servers functions. Adding an optional hook to make a call to a change management system for validation would be even better. The change process should include...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

Control Center 6.0.0.1 and 6.1: Need support for MS SQL Server (ALWAYSON)

Please test and verify if Control Center 6.0.0.1 and 6.1 can support a MS SQL Server ALWAYSON environment. If not, please add an enhancement for this. Thanks.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Queued Process Monitor needs to be updated

There are instances where the queued process monitor shows processes that are sometimes days old. There should be a way to ensure that processes in the Queued Processes are actually running.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance / Usability 0 Future consideration

Ability to handle all queued process at one time.

Today in ICC when files queued up in "Queued process" It need to be handled manually to move to completed process. Then the process would be eligible for purging. Latest version of ICC 6.1.2.1 will allow user to handle queued process / page. If cu...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Future consideration

Sterling B2Bi File Transfer Report type should include filename field.

The Sterling B2Bi File Transfer Report in the report configuration editor has a selection on filename for filtering on filename but the name of the files is not a field in the report. If it is selection value why isn’t it a report value? Wouldn't ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 0 Future consideration

Any configuration information stored in the CCM database must be encrypted

Requirement stated by customer that all configured objects in the database must be encrypted. This includes audit information and any information containing IPs, host names and passwords. Whole-disk encryption, SAN storage encryption, and database...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 2 Future consideration