New Feature and Enhancements

The Release Notes document supplements documentation. Release notes are updated with each release of the product and contain last-minute changes and product requirements, as well as other information pertinent to installing and implementing .

IBM® Sterling Control Center Director and its related software have the following features and enhancements:

v6.2 iFix08

New Features and Enhancements
  • IBM Certified Container for IBM Sterling Control Center is made available with this release.
    • To deploy certified IBM Sterling Control Center container, you should go to the IBM Entitled Registry website and install the latest available fix pack.
    • IBM Sterling Control Center Certified Container is built based on Red Hat UBI as base image and it is bundled with IBM JRE for Linux.
    • Following are the supported Container runtime environments:
      • Red Hat OpenShift >= 4.6
      • Kubernetes >= 1.19
      • Cluster with x86-64-bit CPU architecture
    • Following are the deployment requirements
      • Helm Charts >= 3.0
      • Storage option: Network File System (NFS).
        Note: You must export the NFS mount to each of the Red Hat OpenShift worker nodes, which will host IBM Sterling Control Center.
      • Two persistence volumes
      • Storage Access Mode: ReadWriteMany
    • Supports OpenShift cluster AirGap environment deployment.
  • To install non-container version of this software, you should go to the Fix Central website and install the latest available fix pack.
  • Now, you must create two persistence volume while deploying IBM Sterling Control Center with helm charts in Kubernetes environment.
  • Now, container support in docker environment will no longer be available.

v6.2 iFix05

New Features and Enhancements

To install this software, you should go to the Fix Central website and install the latest available iFix.

  • Installed Kubernetes version should be 1.17 or greater.
  • user_inputs directory should be common for all pod directories while deploying IBM Sterling Control Center Director using Helm Charts in Kubernetes Cluster or OpenShift platform. For more information, refer Containerization support with IBM Sterling Control Center Director.

v6.2 iFix04

New Features and Enhancements

To install this software, you should go to the Fix Central website and install the latest available iFix.

Base Release (v6.2)

New Features and Enhancements
To install this software, you should go to the Passport Advantage website and follow instructions described to complete the download.
  • With IBM Sterling Control Center 6.2, it is possible to run both Control Center Monitor and Director from one install location. This can be achieved by configuring the product entitlement. When you upgrade to Control Center 6.2, configuration process will prompt to you to specify your entitlement. In entitlement configuration step, you can choose to deploy both products together. When both Monitor and Director are run from single instance, following should be noted:
    • Servers, Server Groups, Users, Roles and Audit Logs are commonly managed for both products
    • Roles' Permission section will allow you configured permissions for both products
    • Ability to switch between both products' Web Console is possible through a drop down
    • When a Connect:Direct server self-registers through Control Center Director’s registration mechanism, the new Connect:Direct server will appear in both product’s server list view.
    • One Connect:Direct server cannot be monitored more than once using two different Server aliases
  • This release provides flexibility to configure Control Center Director in a high availability environment.
  • This release extends support to install new Connect:Direct server directly from Control Center Director Web Console.
  • Users can now manage User and Roles directly from Control Center Director Web Console and grant or restrict user access based on permission rights.
  • Users can now modify the system settings, view the overall system health from Control Center Director Web Console's Menu Settings option.
  • With this release, the Dashboard presents consolidated view of Control Center Director status.
  • The IBM Sterling Control Center Classic Console can easily be launched from Web Console using Menu Settings.
  • You must provide a valid working e-mail (SMTP) server connection details to create new Control Center Users. For information, see Menu Settings. For existing users, if you have not already added a valid e-mail, you will be prompted to add your e-mail ID upon first login.
  • You can launch Configuration Management from Control Center Director web console. For more information, refer to Configuration.