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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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Set ROQ to One as a new ROQ Method

Many of our clients manage their 'Repairable' stocked materials by setting a Re-Order Qty (ROQ) = 1. In the case of our SAP clients, this means setting the Maximum to be the same as the Re-Order Point (ROP). This request is to create a new ROQ Met...
over 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Planned for future release

Allow upgrade of SFG Clustered environment using SSL connection to DB2

The Db2 Configuration needs to be modified to allow a non-ssl connection to the DB, this is a security violation in our environment. Then we need to make several modifications to customer_overrides.properties, jdbc.properties.in & Sandbox.cfg ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

Allow RESTAPIClient to use the perimeter server for https vs proxy server

Currently the RESTAPIClient requires a proxy server IP/Port for https POST transactions. It would be much more convenient to be able to use the existing Perimeter server instances/ports.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Publish In-Stock and Out-of-stock events only to COS Bucket

Currently, we cannot publish only the events to a cos bucket when the On hand inventory of an SKU becomes out of stock or comes back in stock. Instead, we are forced to use threshold values to control the publish, which is not very efficient. Ther...
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Can we subscribe to the 'IV events' for different enterprises?

Events published based on separate inventory orgs, reduces the loads on the receivers, and it will increase the throughput.We are eagerly waiting for this enhancement from IBM, request you to please expedite this feature as soon as possible.
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Transaction ID should be treated as unique by Sterling IV regardless of when it is posted. This will help to avoid duplicate transaction updates into the Platform.

Currently, Sterling IV has the ability to not reprocess a transaction with the same transaction id only for 15 mins. But at BigLots, we have business cases wherein the same transaction can be reposted after 15 days to one month. We have discussed ...
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Disable save button until any configuration change is made

Prevents update to configuration when no changes are made.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration / Usability 1 Planned for future release

OMS to IV item relationships

Currently no OOTB support to sync item relationships for items with variations between OMS and IV
almost 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Provide a dashboard view to have detailed SIM UI up time statuses

Provide a dashboard view to have detailed SIM UI up time statuses
almost 3 years ago in Self Service Tool 11 Planned for future release

Please give me visibility to report on passed forecasted entries so I can track forecasting compliance

We get a list of forecasted demand from our AMT maintenance planning tool. We would like to compare the forecast with the actual use as the months roll over to allow us to report on forecasting compliance.
about 3 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release