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 Subscribe
Status Submitted
Workspace Sterling B2B Integrator
Categories B2B Advanced Communications
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 27, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Increase the length of passwords accepted in the trading partner transports

A partner came to us and asked us to add basic auth header to our RosettaNet profile.

The new value was 128 characters long.

When we went to add it to the transport, we got the error

ORA-12899: value too large for column "SI_USER"."SCI_TRANSPORT"."TRANSP_ACT_PWD" (actual: 356, maximum: 255)

because the column is 255 but the system appears to be trying to store the internally encrypted string.


We found that largest value the current UI could take was 55 characters.


Partners are beginning to provide credentials with more entropy. The B2Bi system needs to support that.

What is your industry? Travel & Transportation
How will this idea be used?

To align with customer's expectations around security

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.