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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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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

Certificate CRL check for Sterling Control Center

According to the RFC at https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5280#section-6.3, certificate CRL validation needs to be provided by Sterling Control Center that uses x.509 certificates for TLS/SSL connections. We propose a local caching mechanism to be im...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Future consideration

IBM Control Center Dashboard Enhancement

Unable to customize what and how is displayed on the SCC dashboard upon user login. Number of fields, field contents, color coding, etc should be configurable. One issue that is causing a big problem right now is the number of "pseudo failed" file...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Report to pull last accessed/last login time for all partners

There seems to be a lack of reporting on historical activity of users/partners in Sterling to be able to determine if an account is active and when it was last active. I'm currently trying to pull a last login/last accessed timestamp for each user...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

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 ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Future consideration

Add search criteria to SFG select statistics

US Bank's unique customer identifier is mailbox_id. C:E currently has this field available. We need this field added in SFG to use in "select statistics" searches. A screen shot is attached that shows exactly where we need this added.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Rebrand Control Center Web Console and login page

Hi, Similar to sterling filegateway and my filegateway and other IBM products like Business monitor, looking for options to rebranding the control web console, some of the fields that expecting to rebrand --Web console Title--logo--Login page titl...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

PMR 52649,7TD,000 - Unable to see Users and Roles under Access Admin Profile

SCC Admin group must be able to Manage Users and Roles but not have access to ANY other application configurations. Support advised that currently SCC only supports superuser role that has access to EVERYTHING or members can belong to a group that...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration / Security 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