Facts in Sterling Order Management System Software

A Fact is an attribute that is used by an API or an agent in IBM® Sterling Order Management System Software to identify which colony to access and retrieve data from.

For example, if information is required about a specific order, Facts enable the Metadata shard to be used as a lookup to determine which Transaction shard to access.

Following are the types of Facts in Sterling Order Management System Software:

• ColonyId - Identifies the colony based on the ColonyId.
• PrimaryKey - The first two digits of the Primary Key are used to identify a colony through the Colony Prefix. In other words, when you create a new order, all the Primary Keys of that order will be generated with the prefix of that colony.
• LoginId - Identifies the colony from the Metadata lookup table PLT_COLONY_MAP. This table maps each user's LoginId to the colony that the user belongs to.
• OrganizationCode - Identifies the colony from the Metadata lookup table PLT_COLONY_MAP. This table maps each organization to the colony it belongs to.

If none of the Facts can identify a colony, the DEFAULT colony is used for accessing the data.