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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 16, 2023

Increase character limit for Description field to more than 255 characters.

We are planning to update description field with multiple characters and then generate the report for dashboard purpose. Customizing the character limit to higher value will help us to add more characters in the description field. 

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    Mike Lamb
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    Nov 1, 2023

    ShivaKumar,


    We are not planning to increase the description field but you can add up to 10 metadata fields to a server which will make it easer to extract the metadata rather then parse through a long description.

    https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/control-center/6.3.0?topic=work-metadata-rules


    In the next release we have enhanced the Server Inventory Report to show those metadata fields.


    Thanks,

    Mike Lamb

    Product Manager - Sterling Control Center

  • Guest
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    Jul 20, 2023

    We are attempting to track our CD nodes more closely with application team information and other fields that aren't provided out of the box.

    We are particularly interested in the description field while adding CD node in IBM Control Center and preferably around 1024 characters.

  • Guest
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    Mar 31, 2023

    Hello Greg

    With this idea, we would like to increase character limit for Description field during server addition. Refer the screenshot that is attached in this idea.

    There is business requirement to generate the report from Sterling Control Center for all servers that should have end-to-end details about the server'/application.

    We would like to utilize the description field and update teh details of application in this field.

    Thanks,

    Shiva Hiremath

  • Guest
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    Mar 29, 2023

    ShivaKumar,

    Thank you for submitting the enhancement request. So that I can better understand your requirement, can you provide some specifics on which decscription field would need to be increased or is this more of a general statement about all description fields. Also, can you share a bit more around the use case that is driving the need for a larger description field? In addtion, if we are to look at increasing the field(s), is there an increase in size that would meet your needs?

    Thanks for helping me to better understand your need so that we can determine how we can help.

    Greg Russell

    Senior Product Manager

    CCM and CCD