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 2557

We have refresh netmap in Mainframe Connect Direct and its not available in Linux connect direct

We had an issue with connect direct process, In the middle of file transfer client brought down the connect direct in primary server and brought up in the secondary. Since the process was interrupted and its keep retrying the primary server. Its n...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 4 Future consideration

MRS equivalent for ITX

For the SI maps, there are MRS which help to get the latest mapping document from the code. Now that we are implementing ITX maps, we need a MRS equivalent for ITX.
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Unified Management of Connect Direct & Integrated File Agent

The current process to start/stop Connect Direct (CD) Integrated File Agent (IFA) requires a user to manually edit the init.parm settings each time they start/stop CD. The user has to manually edit the "cdfa.enable" parameter to "y" or "n" to sign...
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Workflow Completion Notificaton

One of my workflow clients is putting the inventory controller at the end of the approval workflow so the controller is aware that approvals have completed. This is highly inefficient as it causes an additional lag in processing time (particularly...
about 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Allow map tests from Design Studio to run against SPE Server

This idea would allow users to run a map test from their locally installed copy of Design Studio on ITXA installed on a server, the same way that we can currently run IBM Mapper tests against Sterling Integrator, and run Design Studio map tests ag...
10 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

Enhance speremove-packs.sh script to remove entries from the database

Right now, we have speremove-packs.sh script, which can remove the ITXA packs-related files from the File System, and it does not remove entries from the database. In the existing process if a customer wants to remove ITXA pack entries from the da...
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Planned for future release

Request support for SHA224 hashes to cover entire SHA-2 suite

B2B Advanced Communications currently only supports the following options for digest hash function and signature hash function: MD5 SHA1 SHA256 SHA384 SHA512 The SHA-2 family of hashes specifies support for the following set of hash algorithms: SH...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Planned for future release

Support to create JSON null and binary type fields

Though the ITX maps are able to read and parse JSON null and binary data, it is unable to generate null or binary type fields using JSON schema. We would like to have the option added in ITX so as to create null and binary type fields like below u...
7 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Planned for future release

We are looking to capture KPI metrics from SFG in terms of max/min file size, cpu/memory usage

We are generating key monthly usage metrics from SFG. Here are some sample metrics.... Max/min file size Max/Min/Avg CPU Max/Avg memory Usage by protocol
5 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

To include option to depoly the maps into multiple Business Aliases

Existing system: Current option doesn't allow us to upload the maps into all the Business Aliases when multiple Business Aliases are present for a client. We have to load the map into each Business Alias individually in this case. Also If user mis...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 12 Planned for future release