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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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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...
almost 7 years ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Support Store engagement on airwatch browser

With enterprise mobile applications, most enterprises are using sophisticated EMM tools to manage device's security policy. VMware airwatch is one such EMM tool. To control the security policy, EMM tools provide their own browser e.g. Airwatch bro...
about 7 years ago in Store Engagement 1 Future consideration

Enable users to see federated accounts

Currently, admins cannot easily see which users are federated and which are not. We have to actively reach out to IBM to see if the new user is federated then we can proceed with providing access. This process is long and labor intensive. Providin...
over 3 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Extend sourcing audit feature to inquiry APIs like findInventory API

The request is to have sourcing audit enabled for findInventory API and this is our requirement as we do sourcing optimization even before order is created at the time of checkout.
over 3 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

getOrderList API should provide one unioned, sorted result set across active and history records

Today's implementation of getOrderList API makes two calls under the hood - one to archive tables and one to active tables (assuming archive switch was invoked in the call.) Almost *no* consumer of order history wants two separate lists, each sort...
over 3 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

During cancellation the Charge Amount should not get refunded when the ChargeType configured as "Non Refundable"

There could be some header charges like Donations which shouldn't get refunded when customer cancel the order. There's a existing configuration in Sterling to keep the header charges as non refundable (IsRefundable="N") however it is not working f...
almost 4 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

getProperty to be able to decrypt database managed properties

If we enable property encryption by setting up the yfs.propertyencrypter.class property property encryption works only for file based properties. E.g. properties kept in the yfs.properties and yfs.properties_<module id>_ext files or customer...
almost 4 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

Provide for quota-free import of in-store transactions ("take sale" / "cash and carry") for use in association with blind returns / refunds

Today, we may receive the return of an unit/sku which was purchased in-store (cash-and-carry, take sale. NOT an order...) to our distribution center, within a valid return window, with a request for a full refund to the original form of payment. B...
almost 4 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Future consideration

Batch assignment of transactions (esp returns) for agent ownership, review

The idea is three part: 1) Provide UI to allow for manual bulk assignment of tasks to individual customer care agents for work-down. 2) Allow for direct assignment/ownership of transactions/shipments to a given customer care agent, regardless of t...
almost 4 years ago in Call Center 2 Future consideration

Database extensions should have a provision to create indexes only on ACTIVE tables.

Database extensions should have a provision to create indexes only on ACTIVE tables. As most of the queries/monitoring and reporting are performed on the ACTIVE tables. These indices may not be always needed on the HISTORY tables.
about 4 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Future consideration