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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Option to change Field type from Simple String to Large Text

We are facing the challenge that after implementation, it is found out that simple string fields do not allow enough characters to be added and therefore we need to change the field into a large text field.This is currently only possible by creati...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Future consideration

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

Allow for custom auroralogging.properties file to define custom loggers that aren't overwritten by upgrades/fix packs/interim fixes

When implementing custom loggers we have to place these in the auroralogging.properties file. This works great until the file gets re-created during the installation of upgrades, fix packs or interim fixes. We would like a custom auroralogging.pro...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Future consideration

Ability to save migration variables

While exporting configuration, there is no way to check what variables were selected and exported and imported.
20 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

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

Preference object reference to the record's location

I would like to request for an enhancement on the workflow configuration that will allow for the setup of assignees to use the Preference object in the same location of the record itself. This will cover instances when the location of the record i...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

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 *...

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