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 792

CDWS - login for protocol wording

The label for selecting the connection information currently listed as 'Protocol' should be changed to something more descriptive such as “Cipher Protocol” and instead of defaulting to “TCPIP” it should say “NONE”. Having “TCPIP” in there is just ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Future consideration

view inbound acknowledgment for outbound document

In EDI Correlation, view inbound acknowledgment for outbound document. If the partner partially accepts or rejects outbound document, it would be useful to easily view the partner's inbound acknowledgment for the outbound document.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 3 Future consideration

Add details of the shipment in the alert raised for Close Manifest Failure

No description provided
about 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Service that offers employee pricing discounts at a SKU/Item level.

External applications need the employee price and discount information at a SKU or Dept/Class/Subclass/Style level, This service enables IBM OMS to calculate the SKU level or Dept/Class/Subclass/Style based on the configured employee discount rule...
about 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Certificate CRL check for Sterling Control Center

According to the RFC at https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5280#section-6.3, certificate CRL validation needs to be provided by Sterling Control Center that uses x.509 certificates for TLS/SSL connections. We propose a local caching mechanism to be im...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Future consideration

Add search criteria to SFG select statistics

US Bank's unique customer identifier is mailbox_id. C:E currently has this field available. We need this field added in SFG to use in "select statistics" searches. A screen shot is attached that shows exactly where we need this added.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

PMR 52649,7TD,000 - Unable to see Users and Roles under Access Admin Profile

SCC Admin group must be able to Manage Users and Roles but not have access to ANY other application configurations. Support advised that currently SCC only supports superuser role that has access to EVERYTHING or members can belong to a group that...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration / Security 0 Future consideration

Windows Connect:Direct proxy password secure

Wells Fargo is requesting an enhancement to Windows Connect:Direct. Currently when a new user proxy is configured a password has to be entered by the person creating the user proxy. This password, in most cases, is owned by a team other than the N...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Automated pausing of node monitoring.

Automated pausing feature needs to be developed to automatically pause/suspend monitoring of mutiple Connect:Direct node groups during datacetner swithover/failover. WIthin automated process individual nodes or node groups must be configurable. Th...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Customized Alerting Blackout Periods

We need the ability to set custom times for each node where if the node goes down it doesn't alert. We are looking to use Control Center to monitor multiple Connect:Directs throughout the company and a majority of the CD nodes have different maint...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Future consideration