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PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...
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PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...
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    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...
    3 days ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

    Ability to accept an additional input file attached by GIODE during an API call and return that same attachment along with the API response

    There are business requirements where the API response should be sent back in the same payload which was originally sent by the customer
    8 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Planned for future release

    Include Item Custom Attributes in IV events

    We are currently using IV events both Delta and Snapshot to publish inventory data across different systems. However, we need to include an identifier in these event outputs to prevent unwanted updates between systems. For example, SystemA should ...
    14 days ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Planned for future release

    Externalizing Token Validation in IBM Sterling Order Service

    Currently, IBM Sterling Order Service (OS) supports externalizing token generation; however, token validation is performed internally within OS using the issuer’s static public key. The primary challenge is that this dynamic key rotation makes the...
    15 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Planned for future release

    Allow manual parameter setting (Define min/max, hold one issue, hold zero issues, etc.) despite an E RO error.

    Currently, I am unable to set manual reorder values if an item has an E RO error. Since I do not need the tool's recommendations in these cases, I would rather not have to adjust my settings to clear the error before I set the parameters.
    16 days ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

    Ability to search or view history shipments in Order Hub

    Currently there is no provision to search or view history shipments in Order Hub, neither there are any identifiers for history shipments as well. This feature is only present for archived orders however this is a useful feature to have.
    about 2 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Planned for future release

    Support IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for i5/OS run on IBM i 7.6

    In April 2025, IBM released version 7.6 of IBM i, the successor to IBM i 7.5.However, we have been informed by the Offering Manager that, at this time, there are no plans to support IBM i 7.6 for IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for i5/OS, which has hi...
    about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 7 Planned for future release

    Publishing DG Availability Events for All Demand and Supply Changes

    Business Requirement: Some of the external legacy applications are relying on network events to maintain current availability state. Scenario: DG Node-Specific Demand Without Supply The DG (distribution group) consists of multiple nodes. In a spec...
    4 months ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Planned for future release

    Add ability to adjust periods used in calculating issue size

    Since we have a great deal of historical data in the tool, I would like to be able to adjust the time period used in calculating the issue quantity, much as I can control how many usage periods are included in the forecast. For one example we look...
    5 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

    Add 'source' information in deleted item file to keep from unintentionally deleting records from different ERP instances.

    We had an issue in which items were unintentionally deleted from the tool. This was because: 1) we have multiple SAP boxes loaded into one MIO instance. 2) an item from one of the SAP boxes was deleted in SAP at the client level 3) an item with th...
    5 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 3 Planned for future release

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