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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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To enable FTM-MER system to support SCORE plus (MX messages to corporate clients)

To support delivery of MX (ISO 20022) messages to SCORE plus member and align the FTM-MER with SWIFT's ISO 20022 migration, as SCORE participants are transitioning from MT to MX messages.
8 days ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Submitted

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 ...
3 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 2 Submitted

Convert lsfpollerd, licpollerd, and advocate to system managed service with Restart set to always

SysV init.d scripts are rather old, and do not support the monitoring and restart capabilities in systemd. So, convert these init.d scripts to systemd support and add the Restart option so that admins are comfortable knowing that the operating sys...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Future consideration

FTM MER BAH

FTM MER should allow the entry and repair of the BAH fields. I understand in the early days MX messages most messages did not have A BAH block. However, since FINplus the BAH is critical to the message and FTM MER should support it.
about 1 month ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Submitted

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 *...

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...
3 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Submitted

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...
8 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 2 Under review

Two buttons, "Design" and "Implement," on the chatbot to finalize the proper design with promt context before proceeding with implementation.

Currently, the chatbot has a single "GO" button to send prompts and receive results. When users request prompts like generating a complete project, the process combines both design and code implementation. Users refine the prompt iteratively to ac...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Enterprise Java 0 Future consideration

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.
about 2 months 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 ...
7 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Under review