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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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Workflow approval requests to be retained after a periodic update

If an action that has generated a workflow approval request is not actioned before a scheduled PU, the request expires after the PU and the processor will have to re-log the details to generate a new workflow approval request. If the workflow app...
almost 3 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Delivered

Provide Context for Delivery Method inside availability user exits

Currently, GetAvailabilityCorrectionsUE doesn't have a delivery method context in its input. It would make customization more streamlined and elegant if this was available.
about 6 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Delivered

Include Time Limit For Dirty Node

We would like to be able to add a time limit to a dirty node instead of waiting on incoming units. For example, if the node is marked as dirty, only leave it marked dirty for 24 hours.
about 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 4 Delivered

Metrics in IV to understand the exposure rates

Ability to have insights into how much Inventory we are exposing for Demand and the reasons behind blocking by Dirty Node Vs Safety Stock vs Demand…etc., This information is critical for business and operations team. The below metrics are needed t...
about 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

In BUC Prepopulate the enterprise entry field when there is just the one value available

Selecting the enterprise over and over again seems like an irrelevent user task. Usually there is just one enterprise configured in the system. Even with multiple enterprises defined, perhaps one could be preselected as the default. It would be gr...
almost 5 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Delivered

Ability to link amendments to the payment tender used for refund/charge

Currently there is no availability to link the payment tender to the list of modifications that triggered that refund/charge. Client requires the ability to identify this association especially for say items paid using interest free credits and re...
almost 5 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Delivered

Pudo within the Optimizer

As a user, I would like to have the ability to run PUDO. (Pick up Drop Off) via the optimzier. Although the user selects a carrier at the time of checkout, the optimizer can review the network of nodes, and provide the best place to source the sel...
over 3 years ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Delivered

Ability to create 'Physical Counts' in Store to synchronize the physical and system inventory mandated as a part of the corporate policy or client requirements

Ability to create 'Physical Counts' to synchronize the physical and system inventory mandated as a part of the corporate policy or client requirements.
about 5 years ago in Store Engagement / APIs & SDKs 0 Delivered

Need a DGAVAILABILITY SNAPSHOT event Publish similar to Product Availability Snapshot event publish

We need a DGAVAILABILITY SNAPSHOT event which has the ability of external trigger based on a Specific DG and have EOF file to intimate end of process. This functionality already exists in Product Availability Snapshot which is at Node level.
over 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

Support for Mac M1/M2 users running OnPrem containers.

On Version: IBM Sterling OMS V10Fix Pack: 37 (10.0.2209.2) When running the Fixpack 37 in the local docker environment, the SMCFS container is getting terminated with error code 255. While investigating the issue, found that this is due to running...
almost 2 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Delivered