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 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...
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...

All ideas

Showing 857

Support IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for i5/OS run on IBM i 7.6

In April 2025, IBM released version 7.6 of IBM i, the successor to IBM i 7.5.However, we have been informed by the Offering Manager that, at this time, there are no plans to support IBM i 7.6 for IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for i5/OS, which has hi...
21 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 5 Future consideration

Audits / Movement history of products on UI

Today in Store Inventory Management, when an user does a Bulk/Adhoc move, it displays the move complete with the source, target location and qty moved for the SKU. But when you exit this screen, it is not possible to go back and see what movement ...
22 days ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Future consideration

Smaller Stack/Images

Currently, IBM Sterling has a very monolithic deployment, which means that the entire OMS scope is included in the deployment image.Especially in cases of limited use, where a customer does not use all functions, customers have to install signific...
29 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

Add Transfer Method in use (Text or Binary) for CDW and CDU

During our transfers from remote partners, we are frequently called to assist others with translation and file transport issues. Many of our remote users are unaware of the CD processes in use and how they function. We need to have the ability to ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Order Hub - Enter key should be enabled while searching the records

It will significantly save user time. Without "Enter key", it adds unnecessary clicks and significantly slows down high-volume search workflows PMR # TS020339798
about 1 month ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Enhance security and stability bu introducing Customer level session limit to safeguard performance.

The Proposal is to introduce customer level session rate limiting in SSP to enhance stability and security. We can add a enhancement by monitoring session creation rates per customer- identified bu login ID, certificate or IP-SSP can enforce confi...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 2 Future consideration

Accessing Queue Watcher dashboard for each ASI Pod

Currently for Container based deployment of Sterling integrator we are not seeing any provision to access QueueWacther page for each individual ASI POD. If we have multiple ASI Pods and If we access queueWatcher page then it opens up from any of A...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

Add Support for TSS Protected IDs in BATCH

CDZ supports RACF and ACF2 when it comes to PROTECTED IDs, but does not support TSS. Please extend this support to TSS, as TSS implemented PROTECTED in a similar manner to RACF.
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Limit MIO Work Queue Data by New Discipline Specific MRP Controllers from SAP

Currently the Work Queue Sets are limited only by Plant, however much of the time spares can be a mix of onshore and offshore locations depending on how close the teams need access to the stock, also due to the set up of maintenance / and the engi...
about 2 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Allow workflow approvers to edit the record and send back to the user.

Our workflow approvers often catch slight tweaks that need to be performed to a record that lands in their inbox, often dealing with MRP settings. (For example, maybe the requestor put an item on planned order instead of automatic replenishment.) ...
2 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration