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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...
PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...

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Add a "reject" button in addition to approve and defer.

The current practice of our users, if they do not want to accept the tool's recommended parameters, is to make a note, select "approve" but leave the export button unchecked. It can be difficult to determine whether or not the tool's recommendatio...
about 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

I would like the ability to add a calculated field/column to the Items view, similar to what you can do with a pivot table.

With a company as large as ours, different groups are interested in different metrics. It would be nearly impossible to capture and manage all of these centrally as fields in the tool. The specific example I am looking at is someone who wants to m...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Future consideration

Support for Java 11+

Currently IBM Sterling is officially only supported on Java 1.8. There are improvements made on JDK since 1.8 especially around native webservice call. We would like IBM to certify java 11 and above for Sterling OMS.
over 2 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Future consideration

Authenticate OMS users without having to preload the user base

Many clients of OMS do not maintain a user repository system that can send user load to OMS. Users will be present on the client's active directory and will can be authenticated and created in OMS during the authentication.
over 4 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

Get Availability by tag (inventory identifier)

IV does not currently provide availability by tag. It does support taking supplies/demands by tag. OMoC will generate the TagNumber and pass it to IV for supply/demand updates. IV will store them as OMoC had provided. However, you will not be able...
about 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Future consideration

Enhance REST service functionality to accept additional content types.

Vendors such as Adyen have the Content-Type as "application/json; charset=utf-8" rather than the standard application/json content type. The request is to enhance the OMS webservice functionality to accept content types that include the character ...
over 5 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Introduce Region definition in SIP and add regional sourcing rules set up similar to Sterling OMS

SIP does not allow managing region definition so that a given post code in the available to promise APIs input can be related to a region and promise calculation can use the region constraint defined as part of promising rules. SIP can easily supp...
4 months ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Future consideration

Option to NOT allocate orders against PO data

Orders allocate to PO_PLACED if eta of PO is equal to or less than the current date. If suppliers do not provide ETA updates in a timely manner we could be allocating to POs that have not yet arrived or will not arrive on time. We still want to tr...
6 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Future consideration

Improvements to JMS monitoring screen in SST

I'll attach my suggestion / queries in a docx as it includes some pictures. In summary, since the move to the new JMS monitoring we have some questions and suggestions for how it could be improved, in particualr on the Queue depth graph and the qu...
about 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

DB query tool in OMoC

Need to be able to view/query tables and columns in a robust way and in real time
over 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration