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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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Workflow Completion Notificaton

One of my workflow clients is putting the inventory controller at the end of the approval workflow so the controller is aware that approvals have completed. This is highly inefficient as it causes an additional lag in processing time (particularly...
over 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Delivered

EDD calculation should factor carrier holidays and weekends

Currently there is no capability to set Carrier holidays and weekend schedule that can be factored in EDD calculation. Padding-up days to regular schedule isn't a great option. If holidays and weekends) are not accounted for, the delivery date cal...
over 2 years ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Delivered

Embed refresh report in PU process

Clients complain that the PU completion email has arrived but yet their analytics reports have not got the latest data. The refresh_report is a separate process. There should be some automation to avoid confusion on clients so once the PU is finis...
over 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 5 Delivered

Provide Audit capability for IV events generated

Provide Audit capability for IV events generated. Currently, the audit is enabled for supply and demand updates to IV but there is not capability for client to know if an event is generated to webhook or COS. We see there are many instances where ...
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Delivered

Move aggregation of Resource pool capacity consumption to asynchronous process to reduce locking

As of now manageCapacityReservation/reserveInventory/reserveAvailableInventory API calls are locking YFS_RES_POOL_CAPCTY_CONSMPTN when capacity is reserved against node/date/shift combination. This slows down reservations when pick capacity enabled.
almost 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Delivered

Update/Fix functionality of the email notification screen

This was "lift and shift" from OAS but is not suitable for current purpose, does not even currenlty work. Email notifications for PU start/finish are currenlty managed external to the product (MRObot and Talend). This functionality should be compl...
almost 3 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Delivered

Include an Identifier to differentiate between the Inventory dbavailabilitycache message triggered by a delta vs full sync(publish_all trigger)

In our integration with IV services, we encountered scenarios where a full sync is being consumed by MW system and in the interim delta change comes in, the delta change processing is delayed because of the lengthy processing of full sync messages...
almost 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

Ability to view line dates in order line details in Order Hub.

We are using oob date type YCD_FTC_PROMISE_DATE at order line level to create sales order. This order line date is present in yfs_order_date table. However, this particular date type is not visible in order line details in Order Hub.
almost 3 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Delivered

Proposed amendment to unlocode facility IDs

No description provided
almost 3 years ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 2 Delivered

Support for Distance Information in Get Node Availability (IV)

- Ability to obtain distance information from input longitude / latitude- Future support could consider plugins to external address locator systems for distance by road than just straight line
almost 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Delivered