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

Workflows

Allow Users to Correct Input and Re-Submit After Exit Validation Failure

We would like to raise a usability concern regarding the behavior of Exit Validations in workflow activities within the new PEM experience. Current Scenario Consider the following workflow design: A Sponsor Task contains a form with an input field...
5 days ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows Submitted

Improve API Request Parameter Mapping Experience in New PEM

Current Behavior in New PEM We have activities that invoke APIs with request payloads containing multiple JSON parameters. During API Request Mapping, each parameter needs to be mapped to data from the workflow, form fields, variables, or previous...
5 days ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows Submitted

Increase and Configure Text Area Character Limits in New PEM Forms

Current Limitation The Text Area field is intended for capturing larger amounts of information, such as descriptions, business justifications, comments, notes, explanations, and detailed user input. However, in the new PEM experience, the Text Are...
10 days ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows Submitted

Configurable Mandatory Comments for Approval Tasks

Current Behavior Currently, the comment field in an Approval Task is optional by default, and there is no configuration available to enforce comment entry during approval actions. While this behavior may be suitable for some scenarios, it does not...
10 days ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows Future consideration

Improve PEM 2.0 Form Layout Flexibility and User Experience

We would like to raise an enhancement request regarding the current PEM form designer capabilities. Compared to the previous PEM experience, the current form layout options are significantly limited, making it difficult to build user-friendly and ...
10 days ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows Future consideration

Enable Dynamic Mapping of Uploaded File Data to Forms, API Requests, and Transformation Inputs

Currently, file upload functionality allows users to upload files (CSV, Excel, XML, JSON, etc.) but does not provide a mechanism to map the uploaded file contents directly to downstream components such as: UI Forms API Request Payloads XSLT Inputs...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows Under review

Change Control Integration in Sterling PEM

When Sterling PEM Admin Users / B2B Ops Teams perform Trading Partner onboarding, there can be ancillary IT tasks such as firewall/network setups, certificate/key updates, backend ERP configuration updates, etc. Orgs employ Change Control Manageme...
4 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows Submitted

Looping Functionality for Dialogs (UI, API, XSLT)

Many times it is not possible to know the number of times that you need an API to execute. Looping would allow the execution of an API or UI dialog to be dynamic. This could be utilized in a great number of use cases, one of which I outlined below.
over 8 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows Functionality already exists

Allow Workflow to Continue After API has Failed

When creating an API dialog there should be an option to continue workflow even when the API fails. Preferably, it would have conditions to continue based upon what error is received.
about 8 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows Planned for future release

The Partner Community Manager CM_CoreProcess has hard coded typing maps which limits our ability to extend functionality of the framework

The latest version of PCM comes with the typing map list in CM_CoreProcess hard coded. This means adding, removing and updating the typing list requires modification of a built in process. Not only will this BP be overwritten in future losing all ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows Submitted