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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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OID for SNMP traps sent from ICC to CA Tool

We would like to send different OID as a part of SNMP Trap from ICC for different Business Process failure in SBI which is currently monitored by ICC. Currently ICC assigns same Trap object identifier to all the SBI Business process events. ICC do...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 0 Not under consideration

Add DVG to SNMP Alerts

We have a requirement to send DVG in a SNMP trap; DVG is available in the event but there is no field in SNMP to reflect that. Could you please add DVG in the SNMP trap.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Add Management of Non-Stop C:D Nodes to Control Center

Right now Control Center lacks the ability to be able to manage C:D nodes running on nonstop systems. We would like to utilize Control Center as a centralized management system for C:D running on all platforms.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Not under consideration

Control Center 6.1 - Conf Migrated from other server - EP's from old server

When a Control Center 6.1 configuration that has multiple EP's that is migrated to a new server, the EP's from the old server appear in the new setup. Why can't the EP's from the old configuration be deleted during installation or by running the c...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Control Center OpenVMS Support

We would like IBM Control Center to be able to monitor and manage C:D nodes on the OpenVMS platform.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Enhance SLC Recovery when CC Engine is back up

I just recently learned this from pmr 93249,442,000. If Control Center is shutdown and then bring it back up it will not go check on a SLC that should have started prior to coming back up. This is an issue. There may have been something important ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Select Statistics via CCAPI directly from monitored Connect:Direct server and not from Control Center database

Currently there is no possibility to display Select Statistics from Connect:Direct node via CCAPI *directly* from Connec:Direct server (it is possible using CDJAI but not CCAPI). Current solution allows to display only those Select Statistics that...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 0 Not under consideration

Snap-To-Grid Mode

Add a snap-to-grid mode that can be turned on and off to make objects easier to align.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Not under consideration

Copy/Paste Entire Objects/Dialogs/Tasks (keeping mappings, etc. exactly the same)

Need to be able to copy and paste within PEM.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Not under consideration

Arrow Keys (on keyboard) to move objects

Currently arrow keys on the keyboard do nothing in PEM. If an object is selected, the arrow keys on the user's keyboard (not buttons on the screen) should move the object. If the object is aligned with other objects on the page, this should be rep...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Not under consideration