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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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Same Billing and Shipping address button

In the old UI when we created a manual order in the OMS we had to enter both the shipping and billing addresses even though they were the same. In the new UI we would like a button that allowed us to tell the OMS that the addresses are the same an...
about 3 years ago in Call Center 1 Future consideration

Add parameter for Oracle DB Connection String

When operating in an Oracle custer invironment it would be useful to be able to provide a DB connection string as paramter when carryng out configCC.sh. Reason: If only IP is provided itmay happen that a DB switch in the background causes system t...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration

The ability to select Supply Type in the Sourcing templates.

Currently the sourcing template allows us to select ALL INVENTORY, INVENTORY WITH CURRENT and FUTURE ETA TOGETHER and ONHAND ONLY INVENTORY. We would want another TWO options. 1. BY SUPPLY TYPE 2. ONLY FUTURE INVENTORY
about 6 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

Be able to link orders and show in the UI

In the new UI we would like to be able to manually create an order and then link it to the original order so that is shows in the Order Summary screen as linked orders.
about 3 years ago in Call Center 1 Future consideration

OMS to IV item relationships

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

Ability to support order amendments and exchanges without re-pricing in OMS UIs (Call Center, Store, etc)

Currently re-pricing (and integration) is required for amendments and exchanges but in certain situations such as the below examples there should be no need for this and simplifies implementation for these use cases. Change product variant- Varian...
about 3 years ago in Store Engagement 6 Functionality already exists

Date needs to be added when a relationship is setup

With the date , we will get to know when a relationship was setup an if any updates was done.
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 2 Not under consideration

Being able to pull the inbox and outbox view with the filename

We have had several customers ask for the option of the filename being able to be reported and downloaded in the excel file. Customer's cross check IBM VAN with their internal system with filenames.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 1 Functionality already exists

Multi Faceted search support in catalog search API

This enhancement was done in 9.3 and dev prereleases was provided but it is not present in newer versions. It adds support for multiple facets in search for product in call center or store or any consumer application.
over 6 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

IBM Order Management on Cloud is able to provide out of box integration to fetch availability from IVaaS during the execution of any promising APIs or order transactions.

IBM Order Management on Cloud is able to provide out of box integration to fetch availability from IVaaS during the execution of any promising APIs or order transactions.
over 6 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Functionality already exists