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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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Trigger to enable Auto Replenishement

Given Item id Qty Location Frequency (hourly/daily) We need event raised when quantity goes below the configured qty at a location Provide ability to add/remove/update these thresholds
8 months ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Functionality already exists

Inventory Audit for Historic Availability

Would be helpful to have inventory Audit for the currentAvailability of an item in Order Hub and IV UI. Similar to the Inventory Audit screens for Supply and Demand of an item, having the ability to see what the availability of an item was at a ce...
4 months ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Future consideration

Fix "Unsigned application requesting unrestricted access to system" Error when launching Graphical Process Modeler

When launching GPM it produces and error message "Unsigned application requesting unrestricted access to system". There is a workaround currently but this request is to have a permanent fix included in a future version of Sterling Integrator. The ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future consideration

Extension of maximum length for schedule parameters

schedule parameters in B2BI seems to have maximum length of 100 characters. This became evident when a b2b rest api failed to create a schedule parameter for remote pull directory location which was more than 100 characters long. This should be in...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future consideration

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

Fix the duplicate messaging issue for mailbox ftp/sftp server adapters

IBM says in their documentation that duplicate messages are allowed by default and is controlled by a parameter in the mailbox.properties file (disallowDuplicateMessages= false). This is inaccurate, We are seeing errors where duplicate filenames a...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Under review

Be able to configure RTAM to not monitor Model item level availability

RTAM spends time calculating the Model item level inventory availability (yfs_item.is_model_item = 'Y') but our business does not use this information so it's an opportunity to save resources for us. Could we add a customer overrides property to d...
5 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Under review

Generative AI for creating B2Bi BPs like Copilot from github

Customer are asking us what is our roadmap to implement AI features in Sterling Data Exchange solutions focused on SCCM, SFG and B2Bi. As a leader of MFT/B2B Integration they would like to know our postion regarding that. For example, is it possib...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

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

Nodes attributes to be part of node availability calls and also in the node availability event publishing 

With IV V2 api , the ship node now can have many attributes . But these attributes are not sent as part of the availability call for the same node , neither in events. To start with even the basic attributes like Country and Node Type will really ...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release