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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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Make it possible to have a backup directory other than /tmp

In some cases, /tmp is not large enough to hold RTM backups. We need an alternate path, in NFS even to store as the temporary backup location for the RTM database backup.
11 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Under review

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 *...

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

Allow for blocklist for lsfproxyd to persist through reboots.

When lsfproxyd restarts, the block list is removed. If the block list was not dumped before or accidentally restarted the lsfproxyd daemon, blocked trouble users can cause problems in the cluster again.
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Future consideration

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

add 'default account name' field for a user to store account used for LSF jobs submission & Licenses.

Hello, in current RTM version (v10.2.0.14), it's not possible to define a default account name (used to submit LSF jobs) per RTM user. Is it possible to add such field in the user record to ease the end-user usage. is it also possible, like for em...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 2 Future consideration

Update calculation for "Total CPUs" field in RTMweb grid_clusterdb.php to sum of cores*nprocs from sum of maxCPUs

Need to see the total number of CPU cores aggregation correctly.
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Under review