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Introduce Region definition in SIP and add regional sourcing rules set up similar to Sterling OMS

SIP does not allow managing region definition so that a given post code in the available to promise APIs input can be related to a region and promise calculation can use the region constraint defined as part of promising rules. SIP can easily supp...
12 months ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Future consideration

Fine grained authorisation for REST services

It seems any user in APIUser can execute any Product service. In our solution we might want to permission different users (identified by an access token , I've raised other Ideas for that) to have different access to services (proxied through the ...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

InFlight API needs to support "Not Equal" filters

InFlight API needs to support "Not Equal" filters.
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration

Allow inventory supervisors the access to stop processing an SLC CR on behalf of the inventory team member that is currently processing the CR, but is out of the office.

It would be useful in the case of an inventory controller being out of the office and a site needs an SLC CR actioned ASAP. It would benefit the flow of production. All inventory supervisors would have access that would enable them to stop process...
over 1 year ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Allow workflow approvers to edit the record and send back to the user.

Our workflow approvers often catch slight tweaks that need to be performed to a record that lands in their inbox, often dealing with MRP settings. (For example, maybe the requestor put an item on planned order instead of automatic replenishment.) ...
3 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

OMEnvironment — propertyRef parameter ignored

In Omenvironment propertyRef is not working in customer overrides property section in server properties .When I checked with IBM support they told that currently propertyRef parameter supports only for environment variable in server properties par...
3 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

Sterling Out of box agents to read messages from Kafka.

Sterling Out of box integration with Kafka Case number TS002842262 Description WSI is moving to Kafka for all the asyn messaging process from current JMS(Tibco EMS). We are looking at Sterling Out of box agents to read messages from Kafka. A...
about 6 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 17 Planned for future release

Add Source File and Destination File to the ITXA process event sent to Control Center

The Source File and Destination File is not included in the event from ITXA to Control Center. As seen here. This needs to be included in the event to see the complete picture. This can be reproduced by following the instructions in the blog. http...
12 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Under review

Test and certify Connect Direct to use DFS in addition to UNC paths

Connect Direct has not been tested nor certified to use DFS paths instead of UNC paths. The use of DFS paths allows Connect Direct copy configurations to automatically switch to a new device location vs the current use of UNC paths where we would ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

Expand usage of component rules in TypeTree

I have a typeTree that creates JSON. I have defined a field as a Choice field with 4 possibilities : string decimal numeric boolean. The input (from XML) is always a string but I'd like the JSON output to be correct in the sense that i don't want ...
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Under review