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 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...
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...

All ideas

Showing 2681 of 2681

System is able to define availability change event and publish availability on every change to multiple external systems both at node level and network level.

System is able to define availability change event and publish availability on every change to multiple external systems both at node level and network level. We need this feature same as RTAM in Sterling where inventory can be published.
over 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Functionality already exists

Fix a bug which IBM support is not accepting as a bug

Problem: Any CD Windows v6 client or Requestor is impacted. When a lower case process name job is submitted, via the v6 client or requestor, the process name is automatically converted to uppercase and the job is submitted. While the same process ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Certificate Expiration Warning for File Agent

Our team is currently looking into the use of certificate authentication with File Agent. I don't think that Control Center will have any visibility to when the certificate expires. We need Control Center to be able to report on this.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Refund without split into two transactions (article price + netto shipping charges and tax of shipping charges)

If we have a full return the refund is split into two transactions that are sent to the PSP. For those two refunds there is only one credit memo that not match. Also the customer does not understand why he receives two refunds.
almost 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

Need proper PDF Documentation of version 6.0.0.0

The existing HTML format documentation is not easy to use. The generate PDF link on the version 6.0 documentation will generate probably 100 pdfs. We need proper PDF documents ...may be one install pdf, one planning pdf and one administration pdf....
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Documentation 0 Is a defect

Display Starting position of the field in field level properties for "FIXED, IMPLICIT" group/file.

In ITX, when the group is defined as fixed and implicit, to identify a field position most of the time we must sum up the field length of previous fields when there is no layout. This would simplify the identification of field in positional files.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

Be able to delete an item from a return shipment

As an OMS user we would like to be able to delete/remove an item from a return receipt so that we do not accidentally credit the incorrect item. As per IBM team, it seems the default order modification rules in OMS do not allow to delete lines fro...
almost 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 6 Not under consideration

SEAS UI Password Recovery

There is no way to recover the admin password for the SEAS UI in SEAS 2.4.3.2 iFix 6 build 208. Users cannot manage certificate renewal updates if they cannot login to the UI.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

SalesForce Case TS******* email notification to have Client Name in the Email Subject

Email notification from SalesForce only have ticket ref and initial comment in Email Subject. It would be very helpful to see from an email subject (or even content) which client/customer the ticket has been opened by / updated by. At the moment w...
almost 6 years ago in OMS - Call Center 2 Not under consideration

Order Management on Cloud dataload to use DB Index and runstats for table YFS_ITEM

During an OMoC initial dataload there can be a need to upload 1M+ item records to the YFS_ITEM DB table. This table is initially empty and non indexed. This can make the dataload INSERT take a very long time when using the ManageItem API. There is...
almost 6 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration