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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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Being able to get alerted based on log file monitoring

It would help to view data similar to Kibana Based Dashboards and get alerts based on Error Codes & Rate of Error Codes.
about 4 years ago in Self Service Tool 5 Not under consideration

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...
about 4 years ago in Self Service Tool 2 Not under consideration

Browser compatibility

Currently IBM Sterling OMS can be opened only through Internet Explorer, please make it compatible through Chrome, FireFox and all other browsers.
about 4 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

Java 64 bit implementation for Application Manager

In my team, everybody having Java 32 bit even I also downgraded to 32 bit which can support 9.5 Console-> Configuration -> Launch Application Manager. We seen that if we use 64 bit, then Application Manager we not able to Launch. Once we mov...
about 4 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Implement old IBM computers in every school in Africa

Micro-Recyc-Coopération is a social economy and international cooperation organization active since 2003 based in Montreal (Quebec-Canada). The mandate of our activity is to computerize educational establishments in the South and to raise public a...
about 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Not under consideration

Managing IV connections

Safestart properties file is used internally by the product to connect to IV. Since it is not exposed to outside world, there is no way to read the values from custom code. If there is a way to read this properties file from the custom code, it wo...
over 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Not under consideration

Different safety factor % of onhand buffer to be set for each Node Type

Bussiness needs to mask an article with item node combination as there might be different scenario's where the store decides not to sell an item even if there is an inventory in the store. So we are looking if there is any other configuration whic...
over 4 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Not under consideration

Application should allow log tracing at app server level

In Production, there are cases where Support engineers need to debug an issue enabling verbose trace for an application server. However , the logging on a specific application server is not supported by IBM Sterling product.
over 4 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

Providing a separate channel for interfaces (Mule Soft / SSIS / BizTalk) to connect to Cloud MQ.

Please provide separate channel / interface to connect to Cloud MQ in OM. This way it is easy for the dev team to isolate errors.
over 4 years ago in Self Service Tool 2 Not under consideration

Provide for consideration of in-store take-sales (non-order) / cash-and-carry when calculating node sell-thru - without impacting transaction quota

Today, Sterling provides for calculation of store node sell-through velocity based on the order fulfillment that OMS has visibility to by virtue of orchestrating orders. However, in practice, a given store node derives a large portion of its sell-...
over 4 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration