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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...
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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Ability to define the priority for the Safety stock Rules based on business requirements

Currently, the priority for the Rule-based safety stock is assigned based on specific pre-defined criteria outlined in this document: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/order-management?topic=rules-safety-stock-rule-priority-list. Since this method is cl...
3 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Decouple Order Service Dependency on Cassandra

Currently, Order Service relies on Cassandra for index data before triggering a search in Elastic. This dependency on Cassandra for search operations in Order Service can cause service disruptions during a Cassandra outage. Additionally, the time ...
3 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Delayed Deletion of OMS Data on Archival of order into Order Service

As Order Service becomes the primary source of truth for orders, we have been evaluating disaster recovery strategies for Elastic and Cassandra services. One area of concern is potential data loss during OMS order archival into OS. Given Cassandra...
3 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 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 Maximo Inventory Optimization 2 Future consideration

Allow multiple tags to be passed in getTagListForOrdering API

Better perfromance could be achieved if getTagListForOrdering API allowed multiple tags to be passed in the input. That will allow us to not call the API for each tag.
3 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 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

Multiarch DTK support for mac M1 users running OMoC projects

KC currently points towards mac support however this doesn't cover M1/M2 chip architecture with OMoCDTK needs to be enhance to support latest chipset.
almost 3 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

Enhance Safety Stock Rules with Relational Operators (Eg: '>', '<') for extended attributes

Problem: Currently, in case of extended attributes, safety stock rules only permit the use of the equality operator (=) for setting rule conditions. This limitation restricts the flexibility and granularity of safety stock management, particularly...
8 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 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 ...
about 6 years ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Future consideration