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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...
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...

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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...
over 7 years ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Revise the current Direct Ship Vendor item handling in Order Optimizer

Revise the current Order Optimizer logic for Direct Ship Vendor (DSV) items. Currently DSV items are prioritized to a vendor for fulfillment even though other nodes may have the capability to fulfill that item. In the case of multi-item orders thi...
over 7 years ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Not under consideration

Add Order Optimizer Dashboard tracking for actual shipping vs. expected shipping

Add Order Optimizer Dashboard reporting to track actual shipping vs. the Order Optimizer expected shipping. Create new metrics to track how close actual shipments (from the nodes) are to what Order Optimizer assigned.The metrics should be availabl...
over 7 years ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Add Order Optimizer PDT notifications

Add the capability for users to subscribe to notifications from the Order Optimizer Parameter Deployment Tool (PDT). Allowing users to subscribe to notifications would enable them to stay in touch with PDT changes executed by other team members or...
over 7 years ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Not under consideration

Refresh all configurations of managed servers on Control Center

Currently, you can have Control Center check for configuration changes daily at a specific time. However, if an authorized user is making multiple configuration changes to multiple servers, they may want to be able to refresh all of the configurat...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to remove trusted certificates from Connect Direct Secure + managed servers using Control Center

Currently, Control Center allows the user to import a trusted certificate. However, it would be extremely beneficial if the authorized user could also remove unneeded or expired certificates using Control Center.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

Enable Item based inventory threshold event if inventory falls below certain threshold

Enable Item based inventory threshold event if inventory falls below certain threshold When the item inventory falls below a configured threshold, then transfer order needs to be initiated automatically.
almost 4 years ago in Store Engagement / APIs & SDKs 3 Functionality already exists

Ability to assign multiple SKUs with all bin locations or single sku with all bin locations

Ability to assign multiple SKUs with all bin locations or single sku with all bin locations. Currently SIM UI don't have cycle count bulk assignment feature for single or multiple skus. Filter count requests based on the SKU's / bin locations.
almost 4 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 13 Future consideration

Today there is no way to trigger physical inventory count in SIM. The functionality can be enabled via a program/backend. It should nullify all other open requests.

Today there is no way to trigger physical inventory count in SIM. The functionality can be enabled via a program/backend. It should nullify all other open requests.
almost 4 years ago in Store Engagement / APIs & SDKs 6 Future consideration

IBM B2B Integrator product needs an ability to capture the SFTP public key of a Client attempting to connect to File Gateway's mailbox.

When a client first attempts to connect to the server their public key should be captured and put in an holding tank. We find that many of our customers are unable to successfully capture and share their public key with out the format of the trans...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 0 Future consideration