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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

Control centre to be RAC aware (TAF and TAC)

IBM control center needs to have rac aware features like TAC, TAF to enable database maintainence without causing an outage to the app. This will enable handoff patching / automated rolling patching for databases.
about 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Planned for future release

IV Full Sync: Ability to import inventory availability into OMS in batch mode and reset any items to o if there is no open relevant demands in OMS

The loadInvnetoryMismatch API is used to bulk load inventory (supply qty for each SKU/location combination) into OMS and this API has a feature (CompleteInventoryFlag) where the API can reset inv to 0 for any items that are not passed in the input...
over 6 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Planned for future release

DB2 HADR (ACR) support for ICC and underlying COGNOS

DB2 Clustering (HADR) is well accepted in the DB2 community. SFG has recently added support for the ACR (Automatic Client Reroute) functionality to take advantage of DB2 clusters perss this link:SFG_with_ACR SCC support for DB2 clusters is also n...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Future consideration

Ability to consider unassigned demands (no assigned node) in availability calculation

The Get Network Availability API exposed in Inventory Visibility mandate Distribution Group to be passed in the input. The API does not consider OPEN_ORDER/ BACKORDER demand types while computing the availability in IV. This leads to inconsistenci...
over 6 years ago in Inventory Visibility 8 Future consideration

IV Node availability call to accomodate custom supply and demand types when integrated with OMS

Most of the OMS implementation would have custom supply and/or demand types part of their business. Currently, the IV node availability call considers only OOB supply and demand types when integrated with OMS, which gives an incorrect inventory pi...
almost 7 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Functionality already exists

Monitoring Dashboard Exposed for Clients

When working with our IBM partners, there was a tool that the team used for monitoring system health. We have implemented Sterling Inventory Visibility for our website (9/27/22). However, there is trepidation in the team as we have no way to see h...
about 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1

Need api to fetch total reservations made against the item (Aggregated Reservation Details)

At this moment there is no API which can provide total reserved quantities against an Item . This API is required to understand the aggregated reservations details for an Item , against all shipnodes . IF the shipnode is paased then the total quan...
about 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Planned for future release

Need milliseconds in Source timestamp in IV

Currently in IV we have field "sourceTs" :"2021-02-24T18:42:01Z" but it does not contain milliseconds in it.
almost 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Functionality already exists