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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...

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MQ Monitoring

Ability to view contents of a Queue Number of messages/Queue Depth Oldest Message Ability to clear Bad data/Add for any Smoke test Receive Queue Depth Alerts (via pagerduty). Aging Messages Alerts Idle Time - No transactions in the queue in last o...
over 2 years ago in Self Service Tool 2 Not under consideration

Being able to get alerted through intelligent data-driven alerting mechanism

Provide us an ability to get alerted as part of data driven alerting. Examples No Orders not created in last one 20 Mins Low Volume of Shipments from DC Higher Fraud Hold Pending Orders Schedule Agent backlog High Configurable by Channel, Threshol...
over 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Future consideration

Real Time - Order Processing Dashboard required

We would like to measure the below KPIs (and get alerted) Orders Flow by Selling Channel ( Web, Call Center, Store) By Hour, By Day, Trend Graph for Previous day vs Current Order Allocation Summary By Fulfillment Channel ( DC, Store, DropShip) By ...
over 2 years ago in Self Service Tool 2 Future consideration

Add Processing Cost configuration to track fixed fees

Add an additional configurable attribute for the Processing Cost model to track a fixed cost for the first item picked from a given node. This cost would be added to the existing variable processing cost (determined by item count) available today....
about 5 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Capability to consume and consider future demand forecasts and promotions

Add the capability for Order Optimizer to consume and consider future demand forecasts and promotions provided by the retailer. Enabling this added input would improve WOO's ability to predict stockout and markdown probability when a future change...
about 5 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Provide more dynamic error handling for nodes missing processing plan values

Currently Watson Order Optimizer requires that all internal (regular) candidate nodes passed for a given order line have a valid processing plan loaded. If not, that order reaches an error state (Derived Capacity Not Found for Node ...). This is t...
about 5 years ago in Fulfillment Optimizer / Product Functionality 1 Not under consideration

Order Optimizer to adjust future sourcing decisions based on actual shipping data

Order Optimizer to ingest shipping data of what actually happened and adjust future shipping/sourcing decisions based on the data. Discussion and prioritization of use cases is needed between Kohl's and IBM. Need to determine the best data sources...
about 5 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Change Optimizer Parameters via CSV File Upload

The business has requested the ability to upload a CSV file to the dashboard to change the individual parameter settings by node i.e. th, d, and o.
about 5 years ago in Fulfillment Optimizer 1 Not under consideration

Order Optimizer direct ingestion of Transit Day information from shipping carriers

Enhance Order Optimizer capabilities to ingest shipping carrier Transit Day information as the carriers provide it. This includes but is not necessarily limited to:1. ingesting a full domestic Transit Day file without further Client filtering of t...
about 5 years ago in Fulfillment Optimizer / Data Maintenance & Management 0 Functionality already exists

Order Optimizer support for passing pre-defined roles via federated (SSO) IBM ID authentication

Add Order Optimizer support for federated IBM ID authentication by predefined roles for the Dashboard / PDT. In this approach, a federated (single sign on) Client would be able to pass a role as part of the authentication that would determine whic...
about 5 years ago in Fulfillment Optimizer 0 Not under consideration