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Identify major LOG captures.

We frequently experience delays in QREP Capture readings on our peak processing days without any apparent monster transactions. Transactions and rows continue to be processed, but at a slower rate than the actual log reads. In these cases, we have...

Let Capture build the transaction message with non-LOB columns first and LOB columns last instead of in strict column sequence order.

Please consider changing Capture to build transaction messages with all non-LOB data first, then add on the LOB data after all other non-LOB data no matter what the sequence numbers. This would prevent the risk of splitting a message on non-LOB da...

Enhance the Gateway Java API to include the ability to get and use a database connection in user exits

Publish a supported Java API that a customer implemented Gateway User Exits can get a database connection from. The database connection should be based upon the same database credentials as what the Gateway uses. The database connection should be ...
about 1 month ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 2 Submitted

Certain items that fail the modulus check do not trigger an error.

FROM TS007184858 When a modulus 11 routine is applied to checks for fields 3 (account) and 7 (aux-on-us) . If the modulus routine results in the check digit of a 10, it is represented by a dash in the MICR field. For certain items that have a nume...
about 2 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Submitted

100% CRYPTO-PROOF™ – Global Blockchain-Integrated Payment Validation and Compliance System

Lack of verifiable proof of payment • Exposure to reversals and liquidity risk • Fragmented or missing compliance validation • Custodial exposure in cross-chain and fiat conversions A universal system is required that provides irrefutable proof, i...
about 1 month ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

Validation for Returns and Reversals in FTM CPS

Bank of Nova Scotia (aka Scotia Bank) in Canada is implementing IBM FTM CPS to support electronic payments processing compliant with Payments Canada Standard 005. According to the standard (Standard 005 - link), **certain fields marked with * or *...

Improvement of QREP to allow replication of data generated in the Db2 LOG by the LOAD utility with SHRLEVEL NONE LOG YES.

Need: Meet the growing demand for data replication from Banco do Brasil -Scenario:- Banco do Brasil is a large user of data replication using Qrep (IIDR) + Db2 v13 for z/OS, there are thousands of tables replicated from production environments for...
almost 2 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Future consideration

Comprehensive Rollback Solution for IBM FTM Version Upgrades

Currently, when post-upgrade issues such as performance degradation emerge after several days in production, only application components can be reverted easily—leaving clients to navigate database backup and restoration processes manually. Any bac...
7 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 2 Under review

Would like Business rules to not allow a second click of the activate button or a flag be set that activation has started and not allow other attempts to activate again until it is complete.

A release was accidently activated twice within 2 minutes, while Business Rules was tied up, it kept inbound files from processing. This caused files to go into error in inbound physical transmissions. Files were able to be successfully restarted ...
6 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Under review

Data captured in long transactions with guaranteed delivery to destination

It is usefull because sometimes a very long transaction pass through the Capture process but can´t be delivered causing memory lack at destination. The benefit would be not losing the data transferred to the destination. One suggestion would be to...
almost 2 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 2 Needs more information