IBMid authentication for Sterling Order Management System

The IBM Sterling® Order Management System includes IBMid authentication which allows the business users for the single sign-on. Since a user's OIDC account is authenticated as a single sign-on, users can log in and use more than one tool or application at the same time, without invalidating the first session, when IBMid is enabled on the IBM Sterling Order Management System environment. Also, when a user logs out of an application or tool, the logout page displays the cause of logout.

If it is a normal logout by the user, the logout page displays the message, You have been successfully logged out. Click here to log in.
If the user gets logged out because of some event such as session timeout and store user is not authorized, the logout page displays the appropriate error message.

Note: For Applications Console (SMCFS) web application, user is asked to close the window on logout. Therefore, no error message is displayed.

What is IBMid?

IBMid is an external identity service to allow customers to engage digitally with IBM. It provides an authentication and registration service for IBMid. IBM Identity Service is the cloud-based identity access and management solution, which provides identity and single sign-on services for IBM applications. You can use IBMid for SSO (Single Sign-on) for IBM Sterling Order Management System.

Some of the benefits of using IBMid authentication are:

You can log in to IBM applications and offerings to engage with IBM digitally.
A tool to reset their password.
Email verification to ensure communications is directed to the correct location.
Ability to create an IBMid and access products.