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Revise the current Direct Ship Vendor item handling in Order Optimizer

Revise the current Order Optimizer logic for Direct Ship Vendor (DSV) items. Currently DSV items are prioritized to a vendor for fulfillment even though other nodes may have the capability to fulfill that item. In the case of multi-item orders thi...
over 7 years ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Not under consideration

Add Order Optimizer Dashboard tracking for actual shipping vs. expected shipping

Add Order Optimizer Dashboard reporting to track actual shipping vs. the Order Optimizer expected shipping. Create new metrics to track how close actual shipments (from the nodes) are to what Order Optimizer assigned.The metrics should be availabl...
over 7 years ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Add Order Optimizer PDT notifications

Add the capability for users to subscribe to notifications from the Order Optimizer Parameter Deployment Tool (PDT). Allowing users to subscribe to notifications would enable them to stay in touch with PDT changes executed by other team members or...
over 7 years ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Not under consideration

Connect:Direct - Certify SQLServer 2016 Express Edition as a supported database for C:D v.4.7 or v.4.8

Ability to upgrade to the latest software.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration

Terminate the Process Waiting for Dynamic Allocation or Unallocation

CDz runs into temporarily unresponsive periodically 5 to 10 min or even longer due to the reason that SYSZTIOT ENQ exclusively held by CDz itself in which one process can't perform dynamical allocation or un allocation holding all other processes ...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Status to be returned when performing an automatic silent install

When performing an automated silent install/upgrade from the Windows command prompt, instead of the command dropping straight back to the command prompt, certain messages would be returned and at the end of the install/upgrade a return code/status...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration

NAS Support

We need NDM to read/write files from NAS connected drives. NAS is becoming a larger portion of our datacenter and will need to send/receive files on NAS. This worked under 5.1 but not for 5.2...I know it was never supported but was handy it worked...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Not under consideration

delete file by C:D API not by RUN TASK&RUN JOB for z/os

Now we delete file by C:D using RUN TASK or RUN JOB,we want to delete file by CD API not system command.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add an Admin ID for CD UNIX Installations

Currently CD UNIX can be installed under another ID. However, during a particular step of the installation process, the root password is required. Can an administrative ID be added to the CD UNIX installation that has the appropriate access needed...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration

Ver display on IUI panel

If there are multiple instances of different NDM ver running, it will be easier to identify if the IUI panel has ver displayed. Attached screenshot will give the idea of what i meant. In this the right-side box has ver hardcoded. if there is a pan...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration