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...

Sterling B2B Integrator

Showing 346

File replay on surviving data center using metadata from cassandra if the processing data center goes down

Currently , if the file is uploaded to the datacenter (DC) and that DC goes down, there is no way to replay that file until the DC comes up. This causes adverse impact on customer's business. Having this will help the production support to replay ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Future consideration

Need an API to check the template Details in Sterling File Gateway

Input of the API: "Template Name" Response: "Template Type(Static/Dynamic)", "Groups assigned to the template", "Provisioning facts assigned to the templates" etc.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Functionality already exists

Help us to DB_SCHEMA_OWNER parameter dont be ignored by SFG in order it can start to use schema owner specified?

Help us to DB_SCHEMA_OWNER parameter dont be ignored by SFG in order it can start to use schema owner specified?
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 3 Not under consideration

Map Editor for Mac

We should be able to install Map Editor client downloaded from SI dashboard on Mac computers.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 1 Not under consideration

Add xlsx as report format

Microsoft is phasing out the use of xls formatted files. You have to manually open and save each file to convert to xlsx.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Native PGP certificate expiry notification

Native PGP feature in latest Sterling 6.1xx do not have any email notifications for the pgp expired certificates based on pgp keystores. Using this new PGP feature,we are trying to completely depend on B2Bi for same and the certificate expiration ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 0 Future consideration

Allow email address to use as user ID

We have requirement to use email address as the user ID in sterling integrator.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Planned for future release

Control Number History should be sorted by control number so they are easy to find.

Very often control numbers must be deleted to reprocess an EDI document and their are most often way to many pages of control numbers to look through to find the one in question.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Not under consideration

compression at the HTTP layer

It would be good to have option like (something like compress="True") to compress the file at HTTP layer, to achieve this do we have any parameter set any of the HTTP Services/adapter level at HTTP Begin Session service/HTTP Client Method service ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Ability to correlate deferred documents with the ST control number assigned to them at time of enveloping

For each document that we process and defer, we lose track of the specific control numbers that are assigned at the time of enveloping. For instance, if you defer 5 separate documents at various times and later run enveloping, we need a method to ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration