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Outbound Transmissions Page - Please add filter option for "Transmission Definition" column.

Currently in FTM 3.0.5.4 and 3.0.5.5, on the Outbound Transmission page, the Transmission Definition column is not filterable. Several of the other columns are. The Transmission Definition column should be added to the filter options.
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Future consideration

UI hides reject codes for items accepted in review

When an item has been accepted in Review, the 'Rejects and Warnings' and 'Total Validation count' has IQA result removed When an item is flagged as having "Image too dark" issues, the 'Rejects and Warnings' and 'Total Validation count' values in t...
9 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Submitted

CDC capture enhancement for "catch up" mode.

We are a 24x7 IMSPlex site including workload balancing across lpars. We have introduced CDC for IMS, replicating data from critical 24x7 business applications. Presently we do not take any outage for these business applications. In order to bette...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

OpenShift Secrets can be viewed as clear text on pods

Credentials setup as OpenShift secrets are readable in clear text on pods, e.g. /startup/variables on Gateway/BR/Transaction pods, /opt/ibm/wlp/usr/servers/defaultServer/variables/ on liberty pods, and /secrets/db2instancepwd/ on database pods. We...
over 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0

Classic IIDR server's STOP,ALL command process should enable the timeout function

In a customer's production environment STOP,ALL command was entered to a IMS target server but the termination process hung. After 80 minutes passed STOP,ALL,IMMEDIATE was entered and the server successfully terminated. (The incident is reported b...
over 6 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

CDC Record type 99 generation to be controlled externally

To generate IMS records for CDC, each DBD must be augmented by adding an EXIT parameter to each segment. This would require a DBDGEN an OLC. We need a command (type1/2) to be able disable and enable type 99 record creation against a database that ...
over 7 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Product should have a more "visible" message when memory limits are being approached, instead of a cryptic message hidden in the sysout.

Currently when the a Datareplication started task starts having memory issues (messagepoolsize), the only indication of this is an error code (RC(08), SpcRC(006A004E)) related to memory allocation that comes out in the sysout/sysprnt of the job th...

Delete/Define operation on Vsam file needs to be logged

This RFE is for the VSAM development team.if a vsam file is enabled for replication using LOGREPLICATE, it can be enabled for replication using Classic CDC. if such file is DELETE/DEFINE which is very common for end of day processing, the replicat...
over 7 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 3 Not under consideration

Needs a clean-up solution when open thread is active and there is an IMS outage

Please refer to the PMR:01622,69G,760.-----------------------------My customer does not want to restart the apply server when recovering the IMS failure.This is because the replication stop time expands and the data reflection on the target is del...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Documentation of raw data format in Classic CDC MQ publishing.

This is not functional requirement, but documentation requirement. it seems that Classic CDC MQ publishing have a capability to publish data format by using PUBBINASIS=TRUE. I've found this function in developerWorks. https://developer.ibm.com/ans...
over 6 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration