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...
Share feedback 5
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...
Share feedback 4

All ideas

Showing 797

Allow Override of STOP CD QUIESCE for C:D z/OS

When a Connect:Direct region is shut down with a STOP CD QUIESCE, the region will terminate when all processes stop, making it an ideal choice for a planned shutdown. However, once initiated, this cannot be aborted or converted to a quicker type o...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Alert Notification for pre-processing and post processing steps Delay (AS2, Doc extract and processing delays)

ASN notifications for customers. SLAs with customers which require ASNs to be sent within a 29 minute window. Failures in pre-processing steps are not visible in Inflight until doc extract is completed and translation action is processing.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Future consideration

Add AD Authentication option for Database Connections

Add support for AD authentication between SI and its database. This would allow the username/password to be managed outside of the application properties files and more easily align with company policies regarding password complexity and who has a...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Future consideration

IBM Connect:Direct license auditing and alerting through Control Center Director

The idea is to have a Control Center director to have a functionality to verify if usage of IBM Connect:Direct installation meets licensing requirements for specific machine. for example in case of session based licenses if number of allowed concu...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Future consideration

Insights into the failed messages on inflight Dashborad

Priority High Ask •Insights into the failed messages on inflight Details of Ask •Provide insights into failed transactions, by providing further categorization on failed transaction . •Grouping of failures based on sender/receiver ID combination b...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 3 Future consideration

Add System Business Process from SBI to the BP list in Control Center

The idea is to be able to choose from the drop-down list of BPs to monitor, the processes of the Sterling B2B Integrator system so that ICC is the tool used for this purpose and not have different systems that also work differently with the Alerts...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Allow kerberos authentication for Sterling B2B Integrator to connect to it's database

Security policy in our organisation mandates that applications must use integrated / trusted authentication to connect to databases (rather than SQL authentication / username + password). I'm unable to find any IBM documentation regarding this for...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

Capability to suppress emails as part of onboarding partners

As part of the partner onboarding when a customer wants to onboard partner to PEM emails notification on the onboarding status gets generated. We currently dont see any configurable options to control the behavior of the application. So customer w...
10 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 1 Future consideration

Global Mailbox aged documents or orphan file deletion

On a B2B Integrator software, where HighAvailability is not needed, the payload storage is on shared drive with a simple directory path /opt/b2bsi/documents/2024/01/..... the path has a linear map towards the payload storage. Even if payload gets ...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 5 Future consideration

Bulk Edit from File if errored should display more details

When the file used in bulk edit from file throws error, it will be good to have more details on the error like- no unique match found for some specific rows or missing items etc. Currently, we have to try various scenarios to troubleshoot the prob...
about 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future 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.