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

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...
PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...

All ideas

Showing 206

Add a polling feature to IBM Sterling B2B Integrator similar - to the IBM Sterling GENTRAN polling feature.

The GENTRAN polling feature we have used for years had made it possible to be very close to RealTIME in processing and getting files to their destination. Our internal systems and external customers have come to expect this, especially to meet SLA...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Functionality already exists

dtxmaptrace utility command on AIX

Currently we can only execute the dtxmaptrace.sh to extract the trace information from binary files. Can this be updated to be executed as an utility command, similar to dtxcmdsv?
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Utilities 0 Functionality already exists

Add native 2 Factor Authentication (2FA/MFA) for external MyFileGateway users

Banking security standards require that external customer access to banking systems require Multi-Factor Authentication. While IBM offer SEAS, and the ability to build customised connectivity to external 2FA providers, this introduces risk whene...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Functionality already exists

Email/Alerting Notifications After CCD Jobs

Looking to have an email notifications and address(es) added as a configurable job field, which would be leveraged to send results automatically (if populated with an email address) after job execution. Email should include job status results (suc...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Functionality already exists

Multi Factor Authentication with Email or App Verification for HTTPS Users (MyFileGateway)

We have an urgent business/security requirement for a Multi-Factor authentication and Dual Authentication from trading partners. Our current systems runs on V 6.0.0.2 SFG Version. Can SFG V6 and above support 'Dual Authentication' and 'MFA' ? Dual...
about 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Functionality already exists

ITX - Expand SERIESTOTEXT function with a delimiter

Currently the SERIESTOTEXT function just concatenates the content of an array which doesn't make it useable in my case. Adding an option for a delimiter like SERIESTOTEXT(Field(s), ",") would make a comma-separated string out of the array which wo...
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 2 Functionality already exists

We are upgrading our IBMI servers to V7R5 and need connect:direct compatibilty.

We are currently on V7R4 and have been told that the recommended connect direct patch level is V3.8.0.3 with iFix 7. We need to know the compatible level for V7R5 (when available)
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 2 Functionality already exists

We request product support for C: D on IBM i on PowerVS.

We are seriously considering running IBM i on IBM cloud, and the lack of product support for C:D running on IBM i on PowerVS become a major barrier. I think that the behavior of IBM i on PowerVS is the same as physical server, so please support C...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Functionality already exists

A set of SQL queries tied to the Activity Snapshot tool is creating an overhead on the database and could be effectively optimised.

We have an issue with the overhead of a specific set of SQLs in SFG 6.1.1.1. IBM confirmed that these queries have been looked at for version 6.1.1.3 but as we have no details of the changes, we’d like to create an Idea. These are the SQLs seen ru...
8 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 1 Functionality already exists

Failed to authenticate with SFTP/FTPs, doesn't display any information of the source

Hi currently, we have a policy to lock an account after 3 failed connections on SFTP or FTPs protocol. In the communication session, it's possible to have the IP source when the authentication is successfull, but when the connection failed, the IP...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 5 Functionality already exists