Archived what's new 2018-2022

Important new features and enhancements were introduced in Sterling Order Management System Software from the year 2018 to 2022.

September 2022 (10.0.2209.1)

Order Hub availability on premises

Order Hub is now available on premises, also known as a traditional installation.

Order Hub is an IBM® Sterling Order Management System Software user interface that fulfillment and order management professionals can use to manage their fulfillment network. You can translate your business goals into actions within the fulfillment network by using the intuitive interface, contextual data, and key performance metrics that Order Hub provides.

Using Order Hub, you can view various metrics and to monitor nodes, orders, and shipments across your network. You can also define alert rules to identify SLA and progress risks and display alerts on your workspace.

For more information about Order Hub, see Order Hub overview.

For setup instructions, see Installing Order Hub.

Installing Sterling Store Engagement (Next-generation)

Sterling Store Engagement can now be installed on premises, also known as a traditional installation. For more information about the installation instructions, see Installing Sterling Store Engagement (Next-generation) using command line.

Export purge enhancements

A new getExportDataDetails API is added to retrieve single data from the YFS_EXPORT table based on the export key. For more information, see Javadoc.

September 2022 (10.0.2209.0)

Data compression enhancements
  • Enabling data compression for columns

    Sterling Order Management System Software is enhanced to provide a configuration to compress data of compression supported columns. By using the configuration, you can compress the column data anytime without having to customize, rebuild, and redeploy Sterling Order Management System Software. For more information about updated compression guidelines, see Guidelines for adding support for data compression for columns.

    For more information about configuring compression properties, see compression properties.

  • History data compression support

    A new property is introduced to enable data compression on all the compression supported columns when data is being written to history tables. The property ensures that the data that is written in history tables is compressed even if compression is not enabled for the compression supported columns in transaction table. For more information about configuring the property, see history compression property.

  • YFS_IMPORT and YFS_EXPORT tables compression support

    Sterling Order Management System Software is enhanced to support compression for MESSAGE column of YFS_IMPORT and YFS_EXPORT tables.

Order audit enhancements
  • Order Audit Delete Purge agent

    The new Order Audit Delete Purge agent extends the capability of Order Purge agent by deleting the order audit records from Sterling Order Management System Software before the Order Purge agent purges the order. For more information about Order Audit Delete Purge agent, see Order audit delete purge.

  • Order Purge agent

    The behavior of the Order Purge agent is enhanced to support configuration to delete the order audit data rather than moving it to history table, and publish the order audit data through a user exit. For more information about configuring delete of order audit, see order audit delete property.

For Order Audit Delete Purge and Order Purge agents, the Sterling Order Management System Software provides YFSBeforeOrderAuditPurgeUE user exit that publishes the order audit records being deleted from the application on purge of an order. Implement the user exit, if you want to store order audit records outside of Sterling Order Management System Software for future reference. For more information, see java API documentation.

Export purge enhancements
  • A new criteria parameter is added to ignore the status value and purge all records. For more information about IgnoreStatus, see Export table purge.
  • A new getExportDataList API is added to retrieve data from the YFS_EXPORT table. For more information, see Javadoc.
Trace component configuration enhancement

The traceable components now come with a time to live configuration and the tracing would no more happen indefinitely. While creating the traceable component configuration, you can pass the time to live (TraceTTL) attribute as part of the modifyTraces API. If this TTL configuration is not passed, it is defaulted to 10 minutes. For more information, see Extending trace expiry time for logs.

Upgrade impact: Yes.

When you deploy the Sterling Order Management System Software (version 10.0.2209.0), all your active trace components might stop because the default TTL to retain the trace is 10 minutes. You can enable the trace again. For more information, see Tracing a component.

July 2022 (10.0.2206.2)

No new features or enhancements were added in this release. For a list of resolved issues, see Release Notes.

June 2022 (10.0.2206.1)

No new features or enhancements were added in this release. For a list of resolved issues, see Release Notes.

March 2022

Log4j version 1 upgraded to Log4j version 2
The application uses the log4j2 (2.17.1) utility for logging. The log4j2 utility writes trace and debug information to a log file. You can modify the logging parameters in the log4j2 configuration file to control the location and level of the log files. For more information, see Migrating to log4j2 and Customizing log4j2.

December 2020

Node capacity considerations for procurements
By default, during procurement capacity is considered only at a procurement node. Now, you can configure a rule to consider capacity at both ship nodes and procurement nodes.

June 2020

Node capacity resource pool for UOM "Line"
Note: To use this functionality, you must apply fix pack 15 or later.
As a Fulfillment Manager, in addition to configuring the node capacity resource pool for the UOM "Unit" or "Release", you can now configure inventory capacity for the UOM "Line" as well.
  • For more information about the node capacity functionality, see Node capacity.
  • For more information about configuring inventory capacity for UOM "Line", see Create a resource pool.

September 2018

Installing IBM Sterling Order Management System Software in Docker mode
The IBM Sterling Order Management System Software installer now supports installation of IBM Sterling Order Management System Software in Docker mode that can be used to set up a runtime for generating Docker images. Learn more...
Containerizing IBM Sterling Order Management System Software for deployment using Docker
Step-by-step instructions are provided for containerizing IBM Sterling Order Management System Software for deployment using Docker. These instructions help users deploy Docker containers into deployment patterns that are portable. In addition, IBM Sterling Order Management System Software provides Kubernetes scripts that enable auto-scaling to support variable business workloads.
Container-based integrated developer toolkit
The new container-based integrated developer toolkit helps to set up an environment for developing extensions without the need to install or configure middleware separately. For more information about using the developer toolkit to set up an environment for customization and other advanced uses. Learn more...
Data integration between IBM Sterling Order Management System Software and Watson Order Optimizer
IBM Sterling Order Management System Software is enhanced with the capability to integrate with Watson Order Optimizer through Universal Behavior Exchange, a common data-exchange platform. Learn more...
Inventory Allocation based on Segmentation
Inventory Allocation based on Segmentation feature allows creation of demands against a custom segment type to optionally consider the unsegmented inventory when segmented quantity is insufficient. Using this feature, you can create custom segment types and define whether the custom segment type can consume inventory from the unsegmented inventory or not. Learn more...
Sourcing Audit
Sourcing Audit feature is provided for effectively tuning and resetting sourcing rules to reflect the changing business priorities. You can enable the sourcing audit functionality to analyze the effectiveness of sourcing and scheduling configurations. By analyzing the audit data captured by the application, you can iteratively enhance the business outcomes of an efficient sourcing rule engine. Learn more...
Order Orchestration
This release introduces support for order orchestration of complex orders that have inter-dependencies within their child components, for example telecom order. This feature allows creation of an order that can be dynamically decomposed into multiple orders based on external business rules and process them sequentially. The new functionality also provides a data structure to store dependencies between related orders. This helps the product to work with complex orders in an efficiently. The application provides a custom API implementation and customizable service configurations for each component of the order orchestration process such as Validation, Decomposition, and Execution. Learn more...
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance
As part of this release, the IBM Sterling Order Management System Software is made compliant with GDPR laws of personal data protection. A set of Service Definition Framework (SDF) services are introduced to perform the following operations:
  • Retrieve individual's personal data and order history on request.
  • Delete an individual's personal data on request.
  • Stop processing customer data for an individual on request.
Support for GDPR is property-controlled and is disabled by default. If disabled, GDPR enhancements do not affect the existing functionality. Learn more...
Integration of IBM Sterling Order Management System Software with IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising Inventory Visibility
The integration of IBM Sterling Order Management System Software with IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising Inventory Visibility service is enabled. This provides various benefits such as eliminating multiple copies and caches of inventory, deploys and load balances across multiple data centers, and so on. Learn more...
Agent and Integration Server Dashboard
Server Dashboard UI consisting of a Single Page Application is added to the System Management Administrator (SMA) to display the details of Agent Server and Integration Server. Using the dashboard, the customer administrator can view Agent Server/Agent Criteria Details or Integration Server and its details. You can start and stop or restart agent or integration servers. The dashboard also displays any active traces for the servers and how long they have been active. Learn more...
BOPIS capability
BOPIS deployment accelerator provides the basic configurations that are needed for organizations to provide Buy Online Pickup In Store (BOPIS) capability in their stores. Retailers can offer BOPIS service to their customers and can get additional benefits such as inventory optimization and fewer returns. Learn more...
Property management UI
The Property Management UI, which is bundled in the System Management and Administration (SMA) application, to manage properties in the database. Using the Property Management UI, you can search for a property, create a new property, modify property values and add overrides. For more information, see Managing properties in the database using the System Administration Console.
Watson Assistant Help is integrated with IBM Sterling Order Management System Software application

Watson Assistant is a cognitive help assistant embedded in the IBM Sterling Order Management System Software application. It aims to improve your information experience by answering questions related to the product usage. Watson Assistant is a handy ‘online help’ that reduces unnecessary navigation. It understands the natural language and responds with immediate and the most relevant results to your query.

To start chatting with Watson, click Watson Assistant Help on the user interface.

What's new in IBM Sterling Order Management System Software optional components
Data Driven Modeling (DDM) framework

As part of this release, support for data driven modeling technique is introduced in Visual Modeler and Sterling Omni-Configurator applications. This feature enables you to define configuration model (in Visual Modeler) with DDM properties and dynamically inject them into a model based on the data that is derived from other systems such as catalog, CRM,Watson, and so on. It also helps in reducing the maintenance cost by eliminating the manual process of constructing model components. Learn more...