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

Installation & Upgrade

Convert Stand Along File Agent checkpoint file to Integrated File Agent (IFA) checkpoint file

As part of the upgrade and/or transition from Stand Alone File Agent (SAFA) to Integrated File Agent (IFA), there should be a way to convert the checkpoint file. This will help prevent older files which may be in the watched directories from being...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade Under review

Windows 2025 Support for CDW and CDWS 6.3 and 6.4

I can't speak for all shops, but it is difficult to manage supported Windows versions of CDW and CDWS with different support versions of Windows Server. Our shop is offering VMs with either Windows Server 2022 or 2025. For longevity purposes, I'd ...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade Functionality already exists

Connect:Direct for containers - S3 bucket setup available before the deployment

It would be highly beneficial to make the S3 bucket setup configurable directly within the values.yml file. For applications running in the OSE environment, this type of storage is the designated method for accessing data intended for transmission...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade Future consideration

CDWS in Containers - files permissions default set up during the deployment

The following files/directories should be properly secured by default during deployment by disabling read access for "Others". We need this to be delivered upfront, which would speed up the deployment and ensure consistent configuration security a...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade Future consideration

CDWS in Containers - additional options accessible before the deployment

Connect Direct Web Services for containers should allow to have more control before the deployment. We need to have the following parameters delivered upfront from values.yaml to setup in OpenShift environment, what would speed up the deployment a...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade Future consideration

CDWS in Containers - disable GUI access option accessible before the deployment

Connect Direct Web Services for containers should allow to disable GUI access (and leave the RESTful API access only) before the deployment. Currently there is no such an option. We need to have this parameter delivered upfront from values.yaml to...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade Functionality already exists

CDWS in Containers - disable admin access option accessible before the deployment

Connect Direct Web Services for containers should allow to disable the admin access before the deployment. Currently CDWS requires to start the deployment, then setup admin password and restart the deployment. Having this parameter delivered upfro...

Include the SA steps as part of run-as-root | C:D installation and upgrade

The customer noticed Connect Direct services are impacted post RHEL 8 upgrade (from previous RHEL versions 7.x) . The SA needs to perform a few steps (outlined in https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-sterling-connectdirect-unix-fails-start-red-ha...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade Functionality already exists

Update Sterling Connect:Direct OpenVMS and SSL versions

Upgrade Sterling Connect:Direct OpenVMS and SSL versions in Sterling's product development environment OpenVMS V8.4-2L3 SSL VSI I64VMS SSL31 V3.1-4 VSI I64VMS SSL3 V3.0-15 VSI I64VMS SSL111 V1.1-1W VSI I64VMS SSL1 V1.0-2UA
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade Future consideration

Windows版のAWSサポートについて

Window版がAWS環境をサポートしてしない。 Windws版もAWS環境をサポートしてほしい。
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade Functionality already exists