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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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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.
about 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Delivered

Hiding of unnecessary ROP/ROQ Methods

MRO provides a number of ROP/ROQ Methods that may not be applicable for a given client's environment. These methods are usually included by default in their drop-down list for selection by users. I'd like a method to either hide or remove methods ...
over 1 year ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 2 Delivered

Certify OMS 10 with Db2 11.5

Looking to migrate from OMS 9.3 to OMS 10. OMS 10 is currently supported with Db2 11.1. The other included software components (e.g. Cognos, MQ) have support for Db2 11.5. Although different versions of DB2 can coexist peacefully, from an administ...
over 4 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Delivered

IV Reservations can be extended

The reservations can be modified to extend them if they are about to expire and we consider they are still valid. Scenarios like a consumer taking longer to complete the checkout or orders taking longer to be converted to demands.
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

ExpectedShipmentDay calcualtion for special services to consider the ShipNode calendar.

This implementation would benefit for the customers, who calculate the CustomerPromisedDate based on the processing time of Special Services. As of now, it only considers the Inventory Availability of the item and ExpectedShipmentDate is being cal...
over 2 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Delivered

Configure additional costs to be considered by SFO for optimizing the node

Apart from the Processing and Shipment Charges, that are being considered as part of the Shipping Model to calculate the cost to serve from the node, SFO should also have a way to add the cross-border customs charges, insurance cost and other misc...
over 2 years ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Delivered

On a reallocation request, Inventory update in IV should be done synchronously, and should not be through messages posted to internal queues in an asynchronous way

On a reallocation request, Inventory update in IV should be done synchronously, and should not be through messages posted to internal queues in an asynchronous way. Below is the use case under consideration. The asynchronous update to IV (as menti...
almost 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

Support segmentation inventory from IV

Product to consume inventory from regular inventory when segmented inventory is not enough. This will support in reservation and sourcing to fulfill from regular inventory when segmented inventory is not present. Also partial reservation and alloc...
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

PreOrder as a product feature.

Business is expecting the following capability in SIP: 1. Ability to identify a product as a launch product 2. Ability to manage inventory association offered for launch pre-order/pre-sale 3. Seamless integration between OMS and IV w.r.t changes i...
almost 2 years ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Delivered

Publish SKU attributes as part of IV API's including ATP lookup and ATP publish events

In our ecosystem, we have systems that use alternate SKU identifiers (ex- UPCCode instead of SKU Id). Without the support for cross referencing SKU's between the various item aliases, additional lookup calls will be needed to get the Item id neede...
over 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Delivered