Skip to Main Content
IBM Sterling


This portal is to open public enhancement requests for IBM Sterling products and services. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

Clear

Pinned ideas

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...

Ideas

Showing 612

Support Dynamic/Managed Passwords for Oracle Database Accounts in IBM Sterling Secure File Gateway (SFG)

1. Problem Statement Currently, IBM SFG requires static passwords for Oracle database accounts used for configuration, runtime, and audit data storage. This poses security and compliance challenges in environments that require: · Regular password ...
11 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Submitted

SFG Redelivers files multiple times once Redeliver button is triggered from SFG UI.

Current Behavior: When the SFG operator/user wants to redeliver/replay one/multiple files and ticks on the checkbox before the file name (as shown in Fig1) then this/these files are put into queue for redeliver/replay and are picked-up by the “Fil...
about 1 month ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Use a custom filename for the zip file when using the getMultipleDocumentGet REST API

The sfgapis getMultipleDocumentGet is to bundle one or more documents from B2B into a zip file and receive this zip as response. http://<Install_Host>:<Liberty_port>/sfgapis/ Using the getMultipleDocumentGet sfgapi there's no option to...
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 1 Submitted

Test compatibility windows server 2025 and SSP

Our organization want to migrate from windows server 2019 to windows server 2025 by 4th quarter of 2026
about 1 month ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 5 Future consideration

Sterling Secure Proxy HSM Integration to store TLS certificate encryption key only

Many organizations use SSP for TLS sessions termination and authenticate clients in presentation zone. The volumes would be high in general, with HSM integration and security mandates each TLS connection has to communicate with HSM for TLS offload...
3 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Future consideration

Transformations/Envelopes Please Remove Production facing Envelopes from view in CTE Next Envelope choice list.

It is confusing and might lead to issues, if permitted to select a Next Envelope on a CTE envelope that does not actually exist in CTE. For example, in the screenshots attached, when searching for a next envelope, the list provides 4 GS envelopes,...
11 days ago in Self Service Tool 0 Submitted

Support ICAP on SSP FTPS adapters

SSP's ICAP capability currently only supports Connect:Direct, SFTP, and https (myfg2.0 specifically when exposing myfilegateway). Customers require support for FTPS since many partners globally still use FTPS and will continue to do so.SSP custome...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Under review

Allow SSP CM user role to be determined by an attribute returned by LDAP

This will allow privileges to be dynamic based on temporary elevation determined by group. Users do not need persistent Admin authority and SEAS could determine whether or not user should be admin or operator based on LDAP attribute
11 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Features ask for Sterling Global Mailbox

MyFileGateway (HTTP) Security Control Limitation Causing Go-Live of Sterling Global Mailbox Folder Mapping post user creation (after onboarding the user, We want to map the folder at later point of time) Key Integration after The user is onboarded...
18 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Global Mailbox 0 Submitted

Sterling Secure Proxy to sign Login SAML request

Presently IBM Sterling Secure proxy sends a SAML request to external Idp using SSO Configuration in SSP. The Login SAML request is not adding the signature but the logout request is adding the signature in SAML request from SSP. From our security ...
11 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Planned for future release