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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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Ability to search archived orders using newly added fields to index mapping

The successful archival of orders into the Order Service results in their deletion from the OMS. Businesses often have new requirements for additional search criteria to look up orders based on internal and customer needs. We have observed that on...
about 1 month ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Adding Packing Flow For Click & Collect Orders in Store Next Gen.

Hi Team, I have come across a case, and this can be a potential product enhancement in store next gen. case:when an click and collect order gets placed, and user comes to store to collect store, so here if customer has selected the gift wrap optio...
about 1 month ago in Store Engagement 0 Future consideration

API to update Order Service Document status to null

Current Process: When an order is synchronized, the document status is set to null. Once the order is archived, its status in OS changes to archived. Issue: When an order is restored to Sterling from OS, and if Sterling is not integrated with OS f...
about 1 month ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Provide "null" as value when there is no record of the item

Currently, when we call IV asking for the availability of a SKU that does not exist (eg "Hobbit_250", IV returns "0" units available. But considering that IV has no record of this product, we want IV to return "Null" If there is a record of the pr...
about 2 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Need to have End date option while turning on and off Node in Order Hub for non IV environments

Feature will be useful, where the scenario can happen to Non IV environments too
2 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Functionality to clean SIM, IV and Node availability

Functionality to clean SIM, IV and Node availability to zero. We don't have API's to cleanup SIM, IV and node availability for existing stores. It is required in lower environments to cleanup the corrupted data due to testing. So that we can clean...
2 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Introduce new field Count of Work Queues into Bulk list view

Recommending the introduction of new field for Bulk list view (Items) to allow a user to see if the item is currently on a Work Queue. This could be shown as a count or perhaps a Yes. Additionally, the ability to see which work queues. This would ...
2 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Ability to define the priority for the Safety stock Rules based on business requirements

Currently, the priority for the Rule-based safety stock is assigned based on specific pre-defined criteria outlined in this document: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/order-management?topic=rules-safety-stock-rule-priority-list. Since this method is cl...
3 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Decouple Order Service Dependency on Cassandra

Currently, Order Service relies on Cassandra for index data before triggering a search in Elastic. This dependency on Cassandra for search operations in Order Service can cause service disruptions during a Cassandra outage. Additionally, the time ...
3 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Delayed Deletion of OMS Data on Archival of order into Order Service

As Order Service becomes the primary source of truth for orders, we have been evaluating disaster recovery strategies for Elastic and Cassandra services. One area of concern is potential data loss during OMS order archival into OS. Given Cassandra...
3 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration