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Connect:Direct for Zos Suports Object Storage

Connect:Direct for Zos does not support send/receiving files from/to Object Storages. Customers are urging that functionality for AWS and Azure.
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 5 Needs more information

Would it be possible to have a pop-up message come up once users Approve exports? Something like "Are you sure you want to update these values in SAP?"

With an increasing number of users, we have had some instances in which unintended data was exported from IBM MIO to SAP. Would it be possible to have a pop-up message come up once users Approve exports? Something like "Are you sure you want to up...
20 days ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 3 Planned for future release

Include Item Custom Attributes in IV events

We are currently using IV events both Delta and Snapshot to publish inventory data across different systems. However, we need to include an identifier in these event outputs to prevent unwanted updates between systems. For example, SystemA should ...
3 months ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Planned for future release

Extensibility Framework for IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising

IBM Sterling Order Management (OMS) provides an extensibility framework and service definition framework that allows users to create bespoke flows using OMS out-of-the-box APIs. This capability is critical for supporting user-specific business flo...
3 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Add Support for TSS Protected IDs in BATCH

CDZ supports RACF and ACF2 when it comes to PROTECTED IDs, but does not support TSS. Please extend this support to TSS, as TSS implemented PROTECTED in a similar manner to RACF.
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Master Data Governance functionality

this feature was advertised for Q1/Q2 2025 but has not been delivered and no information about the delay exists anywhere, is this coming soon?
2 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1

Automating Work Queue

In certain circumstances there would be an efficiency if a Work Queue could be automated, either completely or under certain conditions (Ex. If a material in the Min Max increase/decrease, if it matches a Business Impact selected, or for certain v...
2 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Functionality already exists

Provide Bundle Support across the board for SIP during pre and post fulfillment

Currently, IV supports bundles by providing inventory availability based on the bundle components configured for the bundle item. However, other SIP functionalities like Optimizer and EDD do not support this. These feature gaps must be resolved to...
2 months ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Future consideration

Ability to create DET's on currency table to account for significant variations in the exchange rate

We encountered a situation where currency conversion has been applied in a separate SAP table which is not part of the standard connectors extract. That's result in values in MIO being incorrectly displayed and MIO and associated analytics reports...
2 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Allow editing of fields on the item record despite a D or E error.

More and more, IBM MIO is becoming a highly visible data source for our company, and sometimes I would like to change something like lead time, unit price, etc. while NOT exporting parameters. This is not an issue UNLESS the item has a calculation...
3 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Functionality already exists