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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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(On behalf of PNC Bank) FTM has default podManagementPolicy of OrderedReady. The Product should support a parallel start for stateful sets.

The default of OrderedReady forces the sequential start of a stateful set. The product should support a parallel start of all pods.
14 days ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 3 Under review

Update process so all new modules are delivered/maintaned by SMP instead of during deployment

SMP is a better way to manage and be aware of change. Having deployment processes creating them leaves more opportunity for them to become out of sync with the SMP delivered components.
28 days ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 0 Submitted

OFI Receiving File Transmission Cancellation Requirements

Overview For OFI receiving files, the requested enhancement is to provide the ability to cancel created transmissions and ensure the appropriate payment state management and business recovery actions are performed. General Requirement Cancellation...

IDAA Admin Services: Unable to administer IDAA due to client application name db2jcc_application

At our firm we block any transaction that tries to connect with a non compliant application name: example: db2jcc_applicationWe use dsn_profile_tables for this. Part of the IDAA Admin services also runs with db2jcc_application therefor we are unab...
2 months ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 1 Submitted

Enhance the FTM-MER system to support a common user profile with system enforced six eyes control, requiring three distinct users to perform the Maker, Authoriser 1 and Authoriser 2 functions for each transactions.

The proposed enhancement will strengthen operational and system resilience and the overall control environment by reducing dependency on fixed role assignments, while ensuring segregation of duties remain system enforced. This provides greater res...
about 2 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 3 Functionality already exists

Remove the Privileges tab in IBM's Unified Management Server for z/OS

We use RACF as our external security manager for Db2 authorizations. Using the “Privileges” tab shows the internal Db2 permissions. We have two issues with this functionality : 1) We consider this a security exposure. We do not allow anyone that s...
11 months ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 0 Under review

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...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 2 Under review

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 *...

UI Improvements to Participant Directory Dropdowns to validate full 9 digit entry for Receiving Point, Sender, SECO, and RECO fields

Limit errors and mistakes on the Partner screens.
6 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Under review

Add ability to export report from Control Center Audit Report screen for rows returned along with their Audit Details

This will provide easier access to the information for the users without having to access the screens and click into the details of each item.
6 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Under review