Get inventory availability

The get inventory availability communication maps the WebSphere Commerce GetInventoryAvailability request to the SSFS findInventory API call. It is possible to cache the result and would drastically increase performance, as a real time call to SSFS would not be required for each inventory check. Inventory caching is handled only in a pull, initiated by WebSphere Commerce.

Important: Review the following information for your version of WebSphere Commerce:

Review information about APAR fixes for integration of IBM WebSphere Commerce and IBM Sterling Order Management. For more information about integrating IBM WebSphere Commerce Version 7 Feature Pack 8 (or later) with IBM Sterling Order Management Release 9.3, see WebSphere Commerce integration with Sterling Order Management. For more information about integrating IBM WebSphere Commerce Version 7 Feature Pack 5 (or later) with IBM Sterling Order Management Release 9.2.1 (or later), see WebSphere Commerce integration with Sterling Order Management.
You can integrate Sterling Order Management with WebSphere Commerce using either Direct Integration or IBM® WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (WESB) integration. With Direct Integration, the functions to convert message content and format are performed by services in the Sterling Order Management Service Definition Framework (SDF). For information about using Direct Integration to integrate Sterling Order Management with WebSphere Commerce, see Direct Integration with WebSphere Commerce.

As both WebSphere Commerce and SSFS are customizable, assumptions are made with the mapping from one system to the other. The assumptions made for this call are:

Request
SSFS API path	Source
Promise/@OrganizationCode	Set in the "OrganizationCodeSetter" node in the mediation flow
Promise/PromiseLines/PromiseLine@UnitOfMeasure	Always "EACH"
Promise/PromiseLines/PromiseLine@RequiredQty	Always "999999999"
Promise/PromiseLines/PromiseLine@ItemID	PartNumber param in the Xpath selection criteria
Promise/PromiseLines/PromiseLine@ShipNode	NameIdentifier in the Xpath selection criteria (if present) or ExternalIdentifier in the Xpath selection criteria the online or physical store name(s)
Promise/PromiseLines/PromiseLine@LineId	online_# physical_# Where # is a number appended to ensure uniqueness.

Response
WebSphere Commerce path	Source
_inv:ShowInventoryAvailability/_inv:DataArea/_inv:InventoryAvailability/_inv:InventoryAvailabilityIdentifier/_wcf:ExternalIdentifier/_wcf:CatalogEntryIdentifier/_wcf:ExternalIdentifier/_wcf;PartNumber	PartNumber param in the Xpath selection criteria in the request XML
_inv:ShowInventoryAvailability/_inv:DataArea/_inv:InventoryAvailability/_inv:InventoryAvailabilityIdentifier/_wcf:ExternalIdentifier/_wcf:OnlineStoreIdentifier/_wcf:ExternalIdentifier/_wcf:NameIdentifier	NameIdentifier in the XPath selection criteria in the request XML (if present) or ExternalIdentifier in the XPath selection criteria in the request XML
_inv:ShowInventoryAvailability/_inv:DataArea/_inv:InventoryAvailability/_inv:InventoryStatus	Available If available now according to product availability date Backorderable If available in the future according to product availability date Unavailable All Other cases
_inv:ShowInventoryAvailability/_inv:DataArea/_inv:InventoryAvailability/_inv:AvailableQuantity@uom	Always "C62"
_inv:ShowInventoryAvailability/_inv:DataArea/_inv:InventoryAvailability/_inv:AvailableQuantity	Assignments/Assignment/@Quantity A summation of all quantity values for available products.