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A Workqueue report which goes beyond what the current data source ‘Live Workqueue History’ provides

With IBM Consultant Nick Green, we’ve been developing custom management reports in Analytics – one report we haven’t been able to do however is a Workqueue report which goes beyond what the current data source ‘Live Workqueue History’ provides. Cu...
over 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Future consideration

Queued Process Monitor needs to be updated

There are instances where the queued process monitor shows processes that are sometimes days old. There should be a way to ensure that processes in the Queued Processes are actually running.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance / Usability 0 Future consideration

Skipping Payment Confirmation Page

In our the old UI we had to a customization that removed a lot of buttons from the add payment screen. In our case the orders were always $0, but we still had to confirm the payment method. We would like to be able to remove that screen altogether...
over 2 years ago in OMS - Call Center 1 Future consideration

NFS directory restrictions requires world execute permission

Root squash enabled NFS directories cause an issue with C:D requiring world execute permission on every directory in the path when using the upload/download directory parameters. We want to be able to use upload/download restrictions without havin...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Future consideration

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...
over 2 years ago in OMS - Call Center 1 Future consideration

Have OMS Events publish JSON in addition to XML

Today Events in OMS only publish XML, it requires a translation to JSON before they can be consumed by external systems
almost 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Prevent Cognos pop-up from being closed without logging out first.

Currently the Cognos pop-up can be closed without any feedback, but then the user can't log in again. Having Cognos to force a pop-up similar to how Call Center does, the "Changes you made may not be saved" prompt which gives a warning before clos...
almost 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future 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.
over 2 years ago in OMS - Call Center 1 Future consideration

Quick Button to search a customer's Order History

In the new UI we would like a button that allows the user to click a single button and find the customer's order history. This should show all of the customer's orders in the order search screen.
over 2 years ago in OMS - Call Center 3 Future consideration

Implement Secure UDP for Connect Direct File Agent

Our internal security standards want all traffic to be encrypted. Currently, File Agent uses standard UDP (SNMP) to send messages to Control Center. The goal is to have this traffic encrypted. We are being told that in a couple years the PCI DSS s...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Future consideration