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

FILTER BY CATEGORY

Usability

Showing 61

Duplicate rules and/or actions in Control Center 6.2.1

Prior to version 6.2, rules and/or actions could be duplicated by using the classic console. During the duplication action, the user changes the necessary information in order to make the new rule/action unique. I don't see a way to do this in ver...
12 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1

Add Servers in Control Center Monitoring to Connect:Direct Web Services Automatically

When utilizing APIs or manual entry of servers to ICC monitoring, have that automatically add the servers to the Connect:Direct Web Services. This will alleviate hours of manual work when onboarding new servers or existing servers to allow for Web...
12 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Functionality already exists

Consolidate all ICC admin functionality under Web Console.

Currently functions in ICC such as creating SLC's for all types other then simple SLC and creating/managing DVGs all must be done through the Classic Console. Besides the inconvenience of switching back and forth between the Web Console and Classi...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1

Add line number column to be used for Active Alerts

On the Active Alerts screen for the Web console there isn't a line/item # column. This exists in version 6.0.0.2 for the Java/Swing console, but not 6.1 and above Web console. Add to user configuration view allowing users to select.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Ability to edit SLC name

Currently if a user wants to change the name of a SLC, it must be duplicated and then a new name can be given and the original slc can be deleted. The SLC name needs to be an editable field to allow updates.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Ability to right click in order to comment and/or handle an alert

On Control Center 6.1.3 there are two different icons for commenting and handling alerts. The user currently has to select a check box and then click on the comment or handle icons for the alert. These comment and handle icons are static. Dependin...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

B2Bi server down should indicate node ID

When ICC sees that a node went down in B2Bi, it only shows the server name/alias and not the node that went down
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 4 Functionality already exists

change the time stamp to real time.

Completed processes or file transfers the here is what shown -- can that 30 min ago be changed to the actual end time? It would show 12:38 and not 30 mins ago Ended Type Server Process name Process Jun 19, 2020 (30 minutes ago) C:D NDM...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Auto alert facility when an adapter or any component is down.

Hi IBM Team, As of today, there is no alerting functionality in SSP or SEAS if an important component or adapter is down. Would be good if some default error reporting via different channels like email etc. could be incorporated in the Production.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Mannualy Delete an Alert

Customer is one of the biggest bank in Brazil. They have the need to, as soon as the action handle an alert, delete the alert from the list
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Planned for future release