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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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Need to monitor the progress of IV APIs

The current IV has no way of monitoring the progress of APIs and we need better visibility and access to logs. Also, we need an API to query all the items sync'd up per store / all stores.
over 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

BUC - make inventory reporting bundle aware

BUC inventory search should be able to take a SKU which is a bundle and return the inventory at the selected nodes, calculating the inventory of the bundle based on the inventory of the component SKUs.
almost 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

Expose Inventory audit/transaction history in store UI

Our store users and operations team are used to having the ability to see a history of when and how OH/ATS count changed including trickles from POS, user inventory movements, receipts, etc. These are currently exposed in console but not in any st...
over 5 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 1 Delivered

APIs should publish events that can be consumed and actions can be taken upon

IV APIs should publish events e.g. On successful creation of reservation or on partial reservation so that an action can be taken upon that event.
over 6 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

APIs should be idempotent

In distributed application architecture, if the APIs are not idempotent duplicate data issues can occur. e.g. duplicate requests for Reservation blocks inventory for other customers.
over 6 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

Sterling Intelligent Promising Support

Add Sterling Intelligent Promising Support for configuring different same-day shipping cutoff times based on shipping service level. Includes: 1. File feeds / configurations to support default network cutoff configurations based on service level 2...
almost 7 years ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Delivered

Add Order Optimizer support for same item/sku on multiple lines in an order

Add Order Optimizer support for the same item/sku to appear on multiple lines in a given order. Currently Optimizer requires these scenarios to be siphoned out (excluded) from Optimizer.Optimizer should be enhanced to allow for 'same item multiple...
almost 7 years ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Delivered

Inventory Full Picture Change Event (Supply, Demand and Availability in one event)

Each time a Supply Change (SC) or Demand Change (DC)Event is generated a Product Availability (PA) event message is generated. We need to update an external system with this data. Rather than processing 3 types of messages (SC, DC, PA) it would be...
2 months ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Delivered

Have the ability to edit the form view when opening an item from workflow or work queues

I have come to notice that, if I open an item from Workflow or from Work Queues, I do not have the same option to edit the form view that I do when I open an item from the Items tab. For some materials, I would be interested in different fields, a...
9 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Delivered

USER Management API

Development of an API that can create and update user account, roles, and set permissions. An API of this nature would allow IT Management programs such as Saviynt to dynamically control user access within the application based on client's own Ide...
10 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Delivered