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...
Share feedback 4
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

All ideas

    Showing 1129

    Inactivity user account control

    Admin/User accounts within IBM Control Center cant be disabled/removed after a specified period of inactivity in compliance with the security procedure Risks: Application parameter settings that do not automatically disable and/or remove user ...
    about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Not under consideration

    Allow b2bi trading partners to change file ownership and permissions

    Many of our customers have legal and regulatory requirements to set the permissions and ownership of files after they are sent to our MFT. This is currently not supported on Sterling File Gateway. This is causing issues for our customers. The abil...
    over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

    Provide Select all button to export resources from Config Center UI

    Currently there is no single button to select all of the resources to be exported ( for example, envelopes/maps. We need to select page by page which is limited to 100.
    over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Not under consideration

    Group system in userfile.cfg (UNIX)

    In an environment with hundreds of users defined in the same userfile.cfg, it would be nice to be able to govern them through a system of groups or profiles to reduce administration time and avoid unnecessary failures.
    over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

    Standardize SYSOPTS syntax for multi-environments

    SYSOPTS syntax is written differently depending on the environment: Windows, i5/OS, z/OS, and UNIX. Example on z/OS: SYSOPTS = "DATATYPE(BINARY) XLATE(YES) STRIP.BLANKS(NO)" Same example on UNIX: sysopts=":datatype=binary:xlate=yes:pipe=yes:" This...
    over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

    Apply maintenance on a multi-LPAR CDPLEX

    Currently, to apply maintenance to a CDPLEX that is in more than one LPARs, we must stop the entire CDPLEX and apply maintenance to the entire group at the same time. In a case to support they told that this is so because the Manager could have pr...
    over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    To Have a configuration which allows teams to consider multi-level sub vendors to create Chained order during externalize Inventory

    Consider a scenario -We want to externalize inventory which is a Microservice outside OMS. We have a Organization set as below-Enterprise --> Main Vendor -->Local Area Vendor --> Actual store/person who has inventory. In this case with cu...
    almost 2 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 4 Not under consideration

    Mandate Inventory Status selection when counting with variance for the new Location/SET

    When user is trying to add inventory for the new Bin/Location it is letting to add the inventory without selecting inventory Status in the dropdown , this causing to add the inventory into SIM with inventoryStatus post approving the variance.
    over 3 years ago in Store Engagement / Other 0 Not under consideration

    Dynamic show/hide UI dialog elements

    When trying to make a UI dialog more dynamic, we can currently use labels mapped to XSLT output to generate appropriate text for a partner. E.g. a screen which can show Test, Prod, or both Test and Prod server details in one dialog. Or Inbound, Ou...
    over 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Not under consideration

    Support to Rearrange Columns in a Table

    Columns can only be inserted at the end of a table. Sometimes a new column has to be added in the middle of the table which requires requires existing columns be deleted then recreated in the correct order. The ability to either rearrange columns ...
    over 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Not under 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.