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Workflow Completion Notificaton

One of my workflow clients is putting the inventory controller at the end of the approval workflow so the controller is aware that approvals have completed. This is highly inefficient as it causes an additional lag in processing time (particularly...
over 3 years ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 2 Delivered

File Agent doesn’t support Certificate-based authentication, it will be difficult for us to manage the passwords on File Agent authentications.

We have around 35,000 Connect:Direct nodes and File Agents will be deployed across all the stores. We have a password policy where the passwords are going to expire every 90 days, Maintenance of these many nodes will be a tedious task. Switching t...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Delivered

BULK Attachment option to add in BULK Edit

At Present, while creating a bulk workflow -- we need to go into each item to add an attachment (e.g. if create a Bulk workflow of 100 materials, then we need to go into each material 100 times to add an attachment to have a future reference) It ...
about 3 years ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 2 Delivered

Updating Password automatically in the FileAgent

Hello, We are using CD version : IBM_CD_V4.3_UNIX_Linux_Red_Hat. We need to install CD and FileAgent for our multiple internal BU servers. As you know - we need to use username and password for FileAgent. Please note that we are using common ld...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 4 Delivered

allow configurable rows in settings of Integrated File Agent (browser)

settings of Integrated File Agent cdws-ui/setting/fileAgent/viewDirectories rules per page & directories per page setting is 10 by default. Can these BOTH be made configurable so it doesn't reset to 10 each time the page is revisited\reloaded
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Delivered

Add Biannually (every six months) as a frequency option for work queues

Add Biannually (every six months) as a frequency option for work queues
11 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Delivered

Add filters/search capability for conditions and expressions included in DET's.

Often, I would like to be able to see how many DET's call on a specific field or expression. This might be because we are thinking about changing/repurposing that field or simply understanding the impact of that field. For instance, how many DET's...
11 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Delivered

User Role Page should have the ability to see the users assigned to particular role

This feature will be very useful for Client Admins to see the names of the users to whom a particular role is assigned. Also, for IBM team it will be good to know from UI who the client admins are for every client and we can keep a check on number...
over 1 year ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Delivered

Add dedicated Safe Name and Object Name fields to Password Exit tab in Functional Authorities in Connect Direct for Windows

Currently Password Exit tab in Functional Authorities in Connect Direct for Windows allows to configure Application ID and Policy ID only. This idea is to add other fields - Safe Name, Object Name and Secure+ Label name into these settings in orde...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered

Attachment sorting in form view from latest to earliest

In form view of items, newly added attachments are listed to the bottom of the existing list. Hence if we need to refer the related attachment to the latest workflow, needs to scroll down to the bottom. It is suggested to place the latest attachme...
over 2 years ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 2 Delivered