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    Get the list of SKU's against node which are fulfillment allowed disabled using IV API

    Business use case We would like to have solution or IV API to get the list of SKU's which are fulfillment allowed disabled against the nodes. Even with Inventory audit api we are not able to identify why and when sku against node fulfillment allow...
    5 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

    Ability to clear inventory for a DC in SIP to reload

    Similar to loadinventoryMismatch, we want the ability to zero out all inventory supplies that we didn't provide during the supply load. This would help us fix any inventory issues quickly rather than having to zero out manually again
    3 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0

    Problem Statement: ATP Calculation is not able to exclude future demand beyond request ship date

    Here is the detailed scenario. Problem Statement:ATP calculation is not able to exclude future demand beyond request Ship date. ​ IV- ATP Calculation – Additional Scenarios​ Current Date: 25 July 2025 (Day 1) & Consider Future...
    5 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Under review

    Expose Kafka Config Parameters in SIP Container Environment

    We request IBM to expose and allow configuration of the following parameters in the SIP container environment. While we understand IBM’s concern regarding potential application performance impact, these parameters do not always behave uniformly ac...
    3 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

    Incase of zero inventory, When reservation is created. IBM needs to provide error in the reservation response instead of sending just the line_id.

    Incase of zero inventory, When reservation is created. IBM needs to provide error in the reservation response instead of sending just the line_id. This will help us not place an order as there is no inventory in IV
    4 months ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Not under consideration

    Support for Odette protocol (OFTP)

    In Brazillian market we have a lot customers that are using file transfer based on OFTP (Odette), so because of that, to have more SSP deployed we need to implement this protocol in the SSP.
    almost 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 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

    Connect Direct File Agent 1.4.0.3-SterlingConnectDirectFileAgent-iFix012 upgrade on Window 2012 upgrade failing when userID is already a part of Admin group

    Being a part of admin group, user was not able to upgrade while trying to upgrade CDFA 1.4.0.3 iFix012. Now suggestion is to add this User as a designated admin user of window box. This addition of user as admin is not allowed because this practic...
    9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 3 Not under consideration

    Support service mesh for container deployments

    Enterprise customers looking to deploy containers under kubernetes, especially in OpenShift, specify that service mesh must be used, in this case Red Hat's Service Mesh based on istio.
    3 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Under review

    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...
    over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Future consideration

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