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OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC)

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Extend sourcing audit feature to inquiry APIs like findInventory API

The request is to have sourcing audit enabled for findInventory API and this is our requirement as we do sourcing optimization even before order is created at the time of checkout.
over 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

getOrderList API should provide one unioned, sorted result set across active and history records

Today's implementation of getOrderList API makes two calls under the hood - one to archive tables and one to active tables (assuming archive switch was invoked in the call.) Almost *no* consumer of order history wants two separate lists, each sort...
over 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

During cancellation the Charge Amount should not get refunded when the ChargeType configured as "Non Refundable"

There could be some header charges like Donations which shouldn't get refunded when customer cancel the order. There's a existing configuration in Sterling to keep the header charges as non refundable (IsRefundable="N") however it is not working f...
over 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

getProperty to be able to decrypt database managed properties

If we enable property encryption by setting up the yfs.propertyencrypter.class property property encryption works only for file based properties. E.g. properties kept in the yfs.properties and yfs.properties_<module id>_ext files or customer...
almost 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

Provide for quota-free import of in-store transactions ("take sale" / "cash and carry") for use in association with blind returns / refunds

Today, we may receive the return of an unit/sku which was purchased in-store (cash-and-carry, take sale. NOT an order...) to our distribution center, within a valid return window, with a request for a full refund to the original form of payment. B...
almost 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Future consideration

Database extensions should have a provision to create indexes only on ACTIVE tables.

Database extensions should have a provision to create indexes only on ACTIVE tables. As most of the queries/monitoring and reporting are performed on the ACTIVE tables. These indices may not be always needed on the HISTORY tables.
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Future consideration

Provide manageItemNodeDefn API

The createItemNodeDefn call fails if the record already exists and using modifyItemNodeDefn will fail if the record doesn't exists. So when Sterling receives the safety stock details, we have to first make a getItemNodeDefn call & then invoke ...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Being able to get alerted through intelligent data-driven alerting mechanism

Provide us an ability to get alerted as part of data driven alerting. Examples No Orders not created in last one 20 Mins Low Volume of Shipments from DC Higher Fraud Hold Pending Orders Schedule Agent backlog High Configurable by Channel, Threshol...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Future consideration

Enabling customer override properties as -D argument

We would like to have option of enabling customer_override properties as -D argument for java application, it will allow apps to support different combinations for different environment. In todays world everyone wants to deploy same artifact accro...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

IBM Fix for createException

In createException(YFSEnvironment env, org.w3c.dom.Document inXML) API, in logs we able to find CreateuserID vaiable, once we directly call this API with this ID its overwrite session object userid. So want you to not display this ID in logs. In t...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration