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Sterling OMC | Provide a user role in SST that allows the holder to access the Sterling monitoring only

Provide a user role that provides a read only access to SST. This could be provided to teams that support systems that interact with Sterling. They could use to provide check status in Sterling (Queue depths, application server response time) when...
17 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) Planned for future release

Add a clear EOF indicator to the productAvailabilitySnapshot.v2 event stream

The current End-of-File (EOF) message for the productAvailabilitySnapshot.v2event is indistinguishable from an empty or malformed payload. There is noexplicit field, flag, or marker that programmatically identifies it as theintentional end of a sn...
29 days ago in Inventory Visibility Planned for future release

CDWS in Containers - disable admin access option accessible before the deployment

Connect Direct Web Services for containers should allow to disable the admin access before the deployment. Currently CDWS requires to start the deployment, then setup admin password and restart the deployment. Having this parameter delivered upfro...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade Planned for future release

By Default view of map search appears in ConfigHub UI should be updated to show tab "CTE" rather than "Production"

By Default view of map search appearing in ConfigHub should be updated to show tab "CTE" rather than "Production". For all Confighub users/Customers self service, when we are trying to load updated version to CTE, the dafault view shows under Tab ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Config Hub Planned for future release

Show data for deleted items

Provide read access to data for materials that have been deleted. Currently I must keep an offline database of all historical materials so that I have a baseline for reporting progress metrics, because any materials flagged for deletion in SAP are...
about 1 month ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization Planned for future release

UAT testing by key user community members

Problem Statement Recent releases have unintentionally impacted MIO data (e.g., loss of thousands of workflow items), leading to significant rework. Request Introduce a pre-release validation step where updates are deployed to a sandbox (or simila...
about 1 month ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization Planned for future release

Error Insights

Problem Statement There is big room for IBM to improve the text associated with the internal error messages, such as the 404 error and 500 error. Currently, error messages in MIO provide limited guidance on the underlying cause of the issue. As a ...
about 1 month ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization Planned for future release

Automated Partner EDI ID Validation via API's for VAN Routing Integration

We are requesting an enhancement to enable automated validation of trading partner EDI IDs via API's against IBM VAN routing tables as part of the onboarding workflow within the IBM Sterling B2B Integration SaaS platform. Currently, EDI ID validat...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Value-Added Network (VAN) Planned for future release

SFTP - Bulk upload JSON file for both inbound/outbound directions at once.

When creating SFTP connection on CH using AI, we only have option to do Bulk upload via JSON either for inbound direction or outbound direction. We need JSON upload for both directions at once. This would help users to create connection at once. C...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Config Hub Planned for future release

Call Center Tool Bar Actions Sequence Change

Can we add toolbar actions directly to the blue navigator button instead of placing them in the ‘More Actions’ menu? Currently, when toolbar actions are added to the ‘More Actions’ menu, they appear at the bottom for single-line orders, requiring ...
3 months ago in Call Center Planned for future release