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

Ideas

    Showing 321 of 2997

    HA solution for Connect:Direct using replication

    Since Cloud VMs are widely used these days, has IBM considered to certify HA solution for Connect:Direct on Cloud VMs without requiring OS-level clustering software such as Windows Clustering or Veritas Cluster Software (VCS) for Linux? Those OS-l...
    almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

    Node out of cluster - Process files gracefully automatically

    Business will get benefitted and avoid impacting bank's reputation.
    over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 2 Not under consideration

    Remove the need of 'Log on locally' permission for user accounts in Connect:Direct Windows

    Remove the need of 'Log on locally' permission for user accounts in Connect:Direct Windows. In our organization providing service accounts with 'Log on locally' permission is picked as a Non-standard security configuration and deviating from our s...
    almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Not under consideration

    snode.work.path parameter for IBM Connect:Direct for Windows

    The "snode.work.path" parameter is available in IBM Connect:Direct for UNIX while it is not in IBM Connect:Direct for Windows. The idea is to have similar functionality in Windows version. It will allow to share SNODE work files among nodes in a l...
    almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

    Need a way to select multiple envelopes or maps and delete them all at once

    It is very tedious to delete batches of envelopes or maps since you have to select each one, delete it, and then repeat with all the rest. There should be a way to select batches of them similar to how the export resources works and then delete th...
    over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

    Native Variables in Connect:Direct Unix

    We currently use some of the native Connect variables in: Windows for Windows, Windows for Mainframe, and Windows for UNIX. However, we need to use these same variables from a UNIX server and we are having problems. Examples:% SUBDATE1 and% SUBTIM...
    almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

    remove hard coded SMTP information from standard BP

    In current business environments most connections to SMTP servers don't use plain SMTP port 25 any more but use secure ports like 465 or 587. With current hard coded value 25 for SMTP port many of the standard BPs can't send emails even if the cor...
    over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

    Add support for CNAMEs/aliases in the initparms.cfg port.check:\:trusted.addr

    As long as the CNAME/alias is addressable, administrators should be able to use it for the port.check:\:trusted.addr parameter. We have AWS ec2 instances that are running CD UNIX behind a load balancer. When a new deployment is run, the DNS name a...
    over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 6 Not under consideration

    Use alias/CNAME for the DNS/IP address in a CD netmap

    We have some Connect Direct UNIX for Linux nodes running on AWS ec2 instances. These CD nodes run behind a load balancer. When a new deployment is ran, it is possible for the DNS and IPs of the load balancer may change. Our AWS egineer implemented...
    almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 7 Not under consideration

    Allow b2bi trading partners to change file ownership and permissions

    Many of our customers have legal and regulatory requirements to set the permissions and ownership of files after they are sent to our MFT. This is currently not supported on Sterling File Gateway. This is causing issues for our customers. The abil...
    over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

    By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
    Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.