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

Sterling Control Center Monitor

Showing 249

Password Security Controls

Password security controls for ICC administrator/user interface using local authentication are not sufficient: Minimum password length can’t be enforced. Passwords expiration can’t be enforced. Password complexity settings don't exist Passwo...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Functionality already exists

ICC Database tables which hold summarized data can be partitioned

Encountering performance issues with control center due to having a requirement for a large amount summary data to be available. Given that some of the performance issue are due to long running queries, if the tables holding this data were partiti...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance 1 Functionality already exists

Add more functionality to integrate the export/import of individual configuration items with the command line

Currently it is difficult in version 6.1 to export/import individual configuration items in an automated way using a scripted approach, it would be better to have a more granular approach to ease release/migration tasks. For example being able to ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Control Center: statRecordIds File

I've been doing some testing with the statRecordIds file on our test environment. Today I realized that more attention needs to be given to this file. You are probably wondering what do I mean? Here is a possible situation below. A site is running...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Control Center Email Action Ehancement

I recently learned that in a Control Center email action, if the body of the email action is left blank, it will return all of the available variables for the rule parameters you have set. I did some testing where I removed all of the variables I ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Future consideration

Control Center SQL 2012 JDBC URL

ControlCenter database moved to sql 2012 high availability group with cluster members on multiple IP subnets. Need to be able to modify the database urls to include the parameter muultisubnetfailover=true, i.e url=jdbc:sqlserver://sql2012clusterna...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Functionality already exists

Restrict a user to one specific report

As of now we dont have option to restrict a particular user to specific reports ( either in standard SCC or reports created in cognos)
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Functionality already exists

SCC request for Blank Passwords in Functional Authorities/User Proxies

We are using ACF2 for our z/OS security package. As such we have batch accounts specifically for connect direct that are set with no passwords and can only be accessed via other secure JCL procedures. As such we can't manage them via the SCC Confi...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

SCC should secure Cognos using the same certificates as the SCC application by default

The integrated Cognos instance in SCC should be secured using the same certificate stores as the SCC application itself. I should not use a CAMUSER certificate signed by CA as the default when SCC has been secured using private certificates. This ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration

Configuration management should have an approval process for changes

There should be an approval process built into SCC for making changes with the Configure Servers functions. Adding an optional hook to make a call to a change management system for validation would be even better. The change process should include...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration