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 672

New EBICS Order Types and Signature Class

We have growing set of banking customers that are relying on EBICS to onboard new corporate client. Or roll out new EBICS based services for their clients. The lack of these order types and signature groups are preventing our customers' in the ban...
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 1 Delivered

Suppress the diagnostic data being written to CDESTAE for the SCPA019I error

We observed that there is a dump of the file in DD CDESTAE after the process failed with SCPA019I An input LRECL > output LRECL detected for compressed file. It is an exposure of business data so it would be appreciated if it can be disabled or...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Delivered

Proposed amendment to unlocode facility IDs

No description provided
over 2 years ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 2 Delivered

Support for Distance Information in Get Node Availability (IV)

- Ability to obtain distance information from input longitude / latitude- Future support could consider plugins to external address locator systems for distance by road than just straight line
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Delivered

Future supply/demand graph, should the supply be cumulative

In the item inventory details screen , the supply and demand graph shows the total supply and total demand per day. It wil be ideal to show the cumulative supply ( sum of all supplies upto that day / or availability graph )
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Delivered

Workflow approval requests to be retained after a periodic update

If an action that has generated a workflow approval request is not actioned before a scheduled PU, the request expires after the PU and the processor will have to re-log the details to generate a new workflow approval request. If the workflow app...
over 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Delivered

Add new Order types to the German EBICS implementation - NRA and NRB

Our client is already using our Sterling B2B stack for EBICS purposes. They have a German customer that is willing to use NRA and NRB order types to exchange information with it. These new order types will allow them to be compliant with a new Ger...
about 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Delivered

Cooperative Listener directory permissions

When Launcher starts in cooperative listener mode on RHEL servers a hidden directory is created under each watch point. That dir is named .WTX_<pid>_<hostname>. Each coop listener will have its own one of these hidden dirs. The dirs ar...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Delivered

OCSP implementation for CD/SEAS

CD/SEAS do not provide any means to check the status of the certifcate in real time. They current rely on cache update on regular basis. Addition of OSCP in SEAS will provide a realtime check of revocation
about 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Delivered

Running Connect:Direct in a cloud environment (Microsoft Azure)

I ask how to test and certify the CDU in a Microsoft Azure environment.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 4 Delivered