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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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Support updates for Alias Netmap.

Per IBM Presently Control Center cannot directly update the Alias. We need this to be able to support full netmap updates.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Allow EDIT Option for Codelist "Sender Code" and "Receiver Code " while editing a codelist

Currently codelist in Config Center allows editing the codelist entries but it is limited only to Description and Text Fields. We should also have option to correct the Sender Code and Receiver Code incase it is incorrect. There was a instance in ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Not under consideration

Break Links between Sales Order and Transfer / Purchase Order

At DalTile, we create sales orders linked with either transfer or purchase orders depending on where the item is sourced from. The reason is that inventory does not exist at the store and the customer order needs to be directly tied to the incomin...
almost 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 8 Functionality already exists

Add Processing Cost configuration to track fixed fees

Add an additional configurable attribute for the Processing Cost model to track a fixed cost for the first item picked from a given node. This cost would be added to the existing variable processing cost (determined by item count) available today....
almost 6 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Capability to consume and consider future demand forecasts and promotions

Add the capability for Order Optimizer to consume and consider future demand forecasts and promotions provided by the retailer. Enabling this added input would improve WOO's ability to predict stockout and markdown probability when a future change...
almost 6 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Provide more dynamic error handling for nodes missing processing plan values

Currently Watson Order Optimizer requires that all internal (regular) candidate nodes passed for a given order line have a valid processing plan loaded. If not, that order reaches an error state (Derived Capacity Not Found for Node ...). This is t...
almost 6 years ago in Fulfillment Optimizer / Product Functionality 1 Not under consideration

Order Optimizer to adjust future sourcing decisions based on actual shipping data

Order Optimizer to ingest shipping data of what actually happened and adjust future shipping/sourcing decisions based on the data. Discussion and prioritization of use cases is needed between Kohl's and IBM. Need to determine the best data sources...
almost 6 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Change Optimizer Parameters via CSV File Upload

The business has requested the ability to upload a CSV file to the dashboard to change the individual parameter settings by node i.e. th, d, and o.
almost 6 years ago in Fulfillment Optimizer 1 Not under consideration

Order Optimizer direct ingestion of Transit Day information from shipping carriers

Enhance Order Optimizer capabilities to ingest shipping carrier Transit Day information as the carriers provide it. This includes but is not necessarily limited to:1. ingesting a full domestic Transit Day file without further Client filtering of t...
almost 6 years ago in Fulfillment Optimizer / Data Maintenance & Management 0 Functionality already exists

Order Optimizer support for passing pre-defined roles via federated (SSO) IBM ID authentication

Add Order Optimizer support for federated IBM ID authentication by predefined roles for the Dashboard / PDT. In this approach, a federated (single sign on) Client would be able to pass a role as part of the authentication that would determine whic...
almost 6 years ago in Fulfillment Optimizer 0 Not under consideration