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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

    Export Type Field Visibility

    If I'm not mistaken, a non-admin user is unable to see what fields are included in an export type except by looking at Export History to see past exports. I think it would be useful if they could see what fields are included in an export type or, ...
    11 days ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

    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...
    19 days ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 3 Planned for future release

    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

    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

    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 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

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