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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Provide a means to quiesce individual TCH Connectors without causing timeouts

We need a way to quiesce individual connectors so TCH no longer sends us items on that connector. Stopping them in IIB would have that effect, but any messages TCH sends to that connector's queue will time out, causing failed transactions. We need...
over 2 years ago in FTM for Immediate Payments / High Availability, Zero Downtime 0 Future consideration

Allow TCH Connectors to read non-admin messages from all available queues rather than just 1.

By design, the HA configuration of FTM has a 1:1 relationship between its 4 connectors and and 4 corresponding TCH servers for credit transfers and other business messages. This presents problems of timeouts for in-flight credit transfer messages ...
over 2 years ago in FTM for Immediate Payments / High Availability, Zero Downtime 0 Future consideration