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More dynamic list criteria

In the simplest form, we are wanting to have one “hotlist” that is able to contain variables so we are able to only add/remove entries from that instead of managing multiple(possibly exponentially many depending on functionality) lists. An Example...
9 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational Submitted

Enhance Safer Payments to support multiple Message Command Interface (MCI) endpoints, with each endpoint having its own dedicated tab in the SP dashboard instead of being grouped under a single MCI view.

Problem Today All MCI endpoints are grouped under a single “MCI” section Hard to distinguish between different endpoints (e.g., environments, regions, partners) Monitoring and troubleshooting become less intuitive Limited visibility into endpoint-...
28 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational Submitted

Restriction on the instances displayed on the restore source dropdown in restore confirmation dialog

We had a recent issue in prod which resulted on a restore scenario. User selected an instance that had a queued golive (Checking interlock) by mistake. the restore was successful but based on the discussion with IBM dev it was confirmed that the g...
2 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational Submitted

Provide alternate authentication method for system accounts (different from user authentication method)

Safer Payments v6.8 introduced full OIDC support. In this version, Safer Payments now does the "heavy lifting", communication directly with the IDP to retrieve an ID token containing the user's information. This is a great feature and works with a...
10 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational Under review

We would like to update a field length and not lose historical data

When we update the field max from 16 to 35 we don't want IBM Safer to wipe out existing data for that field
10 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational Under review

Extended Access Management Logging

As of Safer Payments 6.7, the logs do not provide log details on: Created/Updated user accounts permission Created/Updated user accounts global settings Old vs new values for updated account settings fields The lack of this feature translates as h...
about 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational Under review

Access Management Maker/Checker Roles

Safer Payments 6.7 is lacking the configurability of defining maker/checker roles for access management. This requirement reduces operational risk and is essential to a sensitive platform such as Safer Payments. An approach to implementing this fe...
about 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational Under review

LDAP user gaining unauthorized access by changing local password (Local then LDAP)

Safer Payments 6.7 has a security risk where any LDAP user can override LDAP authentication when using the Local then LDAP configuration. The scenario occurs as follows: An LDAP user is mapped on SP by creating a local account with corresponding I...
about 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational Under review

Status Alarm Indicator "Free Index Capacity in %"

Currently a regular, manual monitoring is necessary (compare discinct entries with the index capacity). Having a SAI can trigger an alarm automatically once a certain treshold is reached in order to check on the index size.
about 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational Under review

Dark mode option for the screen.

Staying hours in front of the screen is pretty exhausting for the eyes of fraud analysts. An option to turn it in dark mode will help to lower the stress on the eyes. Also colors will be more visible.
about 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational Future consideration