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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 days ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Future consideration

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 ...
21 days 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...
22 days ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Submitted

AI-Powered B2BI Tuning Recommender

IBM Sterling B2BI provides a wide range of configuration options to maximize performance. As file volumes increase due to business growth, manually identifying and applying the right tuning adjustments becomes complex and time-consuming. Currently...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Submitted

LZ4 compression in Kafka consumer adapter

The Kafka consumer adapter is unable to retrieve messages from Kafka topics that have LZ4 compression. Is there a solution in the Sterling Integrator Kafka settings, or how should we manage this? Without compression, there will be many concerns wi...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Submitted

Publishing DG Availability Events for All Demand and Supply Changes

Business Requirement: Some of the external legacy applications are relying on network events to maintain current availability state. Scenario: DG Node-Specific Demand Without Supply The DG (distribution group) consists of multiple nodes. In a spec...
4 months ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Planned for future release

Global Cleanup Logic in External Purge Process

The external purge functionality in B2BI has shown significant improvement compared to the internal purge mechanism. However, further enhancements are needed to ensure the database and file system remain lightweight, scalable, and cost-efficient i...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Submitted

SIP Compatibility with AWS OpenSearch

The SIP is currently compatible with Elasticsearch 7.17.9 and future fix packs. It leverages the Elasticsearch Java client version 7.17.28, which includes a built-in validation for the response header "X-Elastic-Product: Elasticsearch". This heade...
6 months ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Future consideration

Support Oracle RAC in load balance mode

IBM's largest customers have invested heavily to implement Oracle RAC databases for resilience but due to the way B2Bi's database is designed there are performance implications to switching on RAC load balance mode. This forces all queries to a si...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Under review

Mailbox delete should mark all mailbox data for deletion

Customer urgently needs the mailbox delete options shown in the attached image to delete all data associated with the mailbox entry. Some data is being marked for deletion, but not everything. They need all data associated with that mailbox entry ...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance / Usability 1 Planned for future release