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Enhance IV bundles to support the idea of key skus

If I have a bundle 789 consisting of components: SKU 123 (key sku) SKU 234 (key sku)a SKU 345 (non key sku) SKU 456 (non key sku) While inquiring availability for bundle 789, I would like IV to only check the bundle components where getNodeAvailab...
about 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Future consideration

Remove old STATARCH logs

Hello, We've detected that the STATARCH ConnectDirect logs are never deleted; only the work logs are compromised, converting them to STATARCH.gz. Over time, the STATARCH files accumulate and fill the filesystem, and we need to delete them manually...
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

Test and certify Connect Direct to use DFS in addition to UNC paths

Connect Direct has not been tested nor certified to use DFS paths instead of UNC paths. The use of DFS paths allows Connect Direct copy configurations to automatically switch to a new device location vs the current use of UNC paths where we would ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

Database for IV

Need a read only database to connect to that shows all supply and demand records, quantities, ship nodes, sourceTs, segment info, etc. from IV. This will help with data cleanup and visibility. We have no way of knowing about stale data unless we q...
12 months ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Future consideration

Allow process name in a cdp script to be an IFA variable on Windows.

We use Integrated File agent to automate CDP submissions to Connect Direct. And Webservices is used to administer IFA. Since the IFA service is used by multiple business teams we have a CDP process that has a variable for the process name somthing...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 7 Future consideration

Enhance the supplyChange.v2 event schema to allow propagation of custom attributes included in the original IV request.

Problem Statement:We are using the supplyChange.v2 event to publish IV resonance data to a configured webhook endpoint. As part of our implementation, we are including several custom attributes (e.g., SourceSystemID, AdjustmentReasonCodeID, etc.) ...
3 months ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Future consideration

Stream logs to AWS cloudwatch for better visibility.

For CD UNIX and CDWS Need stats/logs streamed to cloudwatch so they can be monitored and acted upon using our visibility tools. We do not have direct access to the containers for checking logs and rely upon automated solutions to monitor activity ...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

Inventory Audit for Historic Availability

Would be helpful to have inventory Audit for the currentAvailability of an item in Order Hub and IV UI. Similar to the Inventory Audit screens for Supply and Demand of an item, having the ability to see what the availability of an item was at a ce...
4 months ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Future consideration

Ability/ Option to clean up data loaded into IV via a self-serve option/ API

Currently, IV APIs do not give the option to clean up the data loaded into it via the integration with OMoC. There are APIs to perform adjustments or to zero-out the supplies/ demands and hence availability in IV (and thereby the process to clean ...
over 6 years ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Future consideration

Allow for Connect Direct service account to be non-interactive

For Windows servers we need the Connect Direct service account to be non-interactive (Per Windows functionality, the service account needs to perform a logging event to retrieve the properties (access/grants/rights) that the user has. For financia...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration