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 2645 of 2645

High availability for Connect Direct Manager running in a sysplex.

Hi,We are looking for a high availability solution for Connect Direct Manager. We currently have one CD manager running in a sysplex and are at risk of this task going down and not restarting as there is no fallback for this component. We would li...
10 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Increase PEM Code list / Generic data field length

No description provided
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 1 Not under consideration

Server Inventory Report should contain all fields related to node

Server Inventory report does contain all the field. Need enhancement to reporting capability to include all fields in the report as this is required to gather details and automate the inventory validation.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 4 Planned for future release

Extend the REST API Client Service to allow for Bearer Token as an authorization method

When connecting to the PayPal REST API's for invoicing they require Bearer Token authorization. The token is retrieved from an API that uses Basic authentication.
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Planned for future release

Improve performance of SERIESTOTEXT function

Currently the SERIESTOTEXT function does not distinguish the type of an object when the same field from the type tree is passed at different level. To make things clear, below is an example of a typical ANSI X12 type tree and the 'X12 Segment' is ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

Job Status >>> Job Item Summary enhancement for failed codelist due to duplicate entries

We have request from customers like VF Services to update new codelist entries (more then 100 +) for an already existing codelist . For such request Support/PER/Implementer would normally take the back up of the existing codelist (XML) and merge t...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Not under consideration

Enhance your automated email on a VAN Failure transmission to us

We sometimes receive emails entitled: "IBM Sterling Information Broker Services (System Notification) - Message Undeliverable".The email tells us something went wrong sending a message from someone to someone. It lacks any useful information to he...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 2 Not under consideration

REST API client service content type

The RESTAPIClient service accepts only 'Application/JSON and Application/XML as valid values for Content-type. For our integration with Okta, Okta expects the content-type as ' application/x-www-form-urlencoded'. While this works fine with postman...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Not under consideration

ITXA - Missing GS ID causes entire file to fail validation

During the Deenvelope service, missing envelope for GS id causes the entire file to fail. The process should fail only the missing GS and continue processing the rest of the file.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Not under consideration

Request for caching to work with WTX Oracle adapter

Hello , We have review your questions and comment with our developers in order for this result caching to work with WTX Oracle adapter, a design change would be needed in order to cache the Oracle statement handle. Currently, WTX Oracle adapter on...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 0 Not under consideration