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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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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

Have an option to provide a minimal error (with reference code) without any detail, in the user-facing UI.

Currently the minimal errors (as opposed to Detailed Errors) still give a great deal of information in the Stack Trace. It would be good for security if we could opt to have the user given a very minimal message "Error occurred - Please contact yo...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Future 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

Make the -H switch mandatory when generating a CSR with Third-Party Certificate Tool, OR either print a warning, or default to the current host if not specified.

Currently the documentation for 12.1.0 does not specify, in the topic for generation of CSR files (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.1.x?topic=certificate-create-signing-request-csr-files), that at least one Subject Alternative Name ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Remove dependency for unsafe CSP headers

Our company ships a product that leverages Cognos Analytics. Our Pentest results have, for years, flagged that Cognos uses the following CSP headers: 'unsafe-inline' - allow inline scripts in our index.html 'unsafe-eval' - allow any eval() in our ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

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

enable navigation of users setup in AzureAD for Cognos Analytics setup with OpenID Connect namespace with Azure AD

PAIN POINT: Cognos Analytics admistratos can currently not navegate,view or search users which exist in AZURE AD when Cognos Analytics is setup with OpenID Connect namespace to authenticate with Azure AD; only error prone and time consuming creati...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration