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Allow Concurrent Access to FileAgent rules. if not lock the access until rules are applied

Integrated file Agent allows concurrent access for multiple users which mean rules or config can be overwritten. Enhancement request is to either Allow safe concurrent access where user wont trip on each other rules If that is not possible, at...
2 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Submitted

Enhance Integrated File Agent (IFA) for Windows and Linux allow flexibility as to where the process scripts are stored

Our team recently converted a Stand Alone File Agent to Integrated File Agent. The imported rules work fine. However, we discovered that when creating a new rule, the process script must be placed in the process directory. No other location is all...
8 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Submitted

Support for Arbitrary User ID in IBM Connect:Direct Container Images

Modify the Connect:Direct container image to enable running it with a random UID. OpenShift Security Context Constraints (SCCs) assign random user IDs at runtime while maintaining group ID 0 (root group) for security purposes. This security model...
25 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

Actions after a file is copied to a Azure Blob

As soon as the file is copied to connect direct and is persisted in a BLOB Object Store in Azure, customer needs to move/copy this file to another path/blob and/or delete this file directly from the cdp as a sysopt or some kind of task, but not us...
2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 Needs more information

Ability to clear inventory for a DC in SIP to reload

Similar to loadinventoryMismatch, we want the ability to zero out all inventory supplies that we didn't provide during the supply load. This would help us fix any inventory issues quickly rather than having to zero out manually again
3 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0

Expose Kafka Config Parameters in SIP Container Environment

We request IBM to expose and allow configuration of the following parameters in the SIP container environment. While we understand IBM’s concern regarding potential application performance impact, these parameters do not always behave uniformly ac...
3 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Incase of zero inventory, When reservation is created. IBM needs to provide error in the reservation response instead of sending just the line_id.

Incase of zero inventory, When reservation is created. IBM needs to provide error in the reservation response instead of sending just the line_id. This will help us not place an order as there is no inventory in IV
4 months ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Not under consideration

new version CD to microfocus

Regarding to particular case, we have detected that EBCDIC Microfocus Gravity (JLC emulation) conversions with UNIX origin to Snode UNIX do not support line break translations. The EBCDIC to ISO8859-1 codepage works, but any additional parameters ...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Get the list of SKU's against node which are fulfillment allowed disabled using IV API

Business use case We would like to have solution or IV API to get the list of SKU's which are fulfillment allowed disabled against the nodes. Even with Inventory audit api we are not able to identify why and when sku against node fulfillment allow...
5 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Problem Statement: ATP Calculation is not able to exclude future demand beyond request ship date

Here is the detailed scenario. Problem Statement:ATP calculation is not able to exclude future demand beyond request Ship date. ​ IV- ATP Calculation – Additional Scenarios​ Current Date: 25 July 2025 (Day 1) & Consider Future...
6 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Under review