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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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Export Framework Manager Model

End users should be able to get a diagram of the FM model to understand the table relations. Currently, you can only print the model (seen in content explorer), which breaks up the model into many pages. Should have the ability to export the whole...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Purge utility configuration parameters enhancement request for FTM V3.0 on z/OS

The current (FTM V3.0.0.4) purge utility requires changes to a properties file, which in a production environment, is restricted. The purge utility can also benefit from re-design to allow additional configuration, delivering improved usability.
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Is a defect

FTM documentation in Knowledge Center spread over several versions

Documentation for FTM is spread over multiple versions in the FTM knowledge center.For example, the Knowledge center for FTM for z/OS 3.0.1 has only information about FTM CPS, RIsk Management and Services and PFS, and misses a wide variety of info...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

OAC pages should show creation timestamp on errors

On the details page of any FTM object (PT, batch, transaction, svc_participant...) the errors tab shows a list of errors. The errors attribute include the following, but not the creation date and time IDApplication IDTypeComponent TypeComponent Na...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

WBIFN RMA Record Last Usage

In relation to the recent SWIFT Security initiatives, we want to request the functionality in FTM for SWIFT and WBIFN V3.1.1 where we can generate the last usage report for all RMA records. This functionality is available for SAA/RMA users.
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

CBT automatic reconnect according to SWIFT "best practice"

We faced in production an abort of our FIN LTs with SWIFTs abort reason codes saying "Regional Processor is being shut down". After discussions on PMR 40488,311,75 and a parallel case with SWIFT, it is clear that SWIFT does not document this abort...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

MER / field 20 / enhanced error message

Message Entry and Repair facility in FTM for SWIFT (formerly WBIFN):when entering a non-SWIFT-character into the field 20, the error message refers to the expected field length, and it also limits the range of valid characters to SWIFT characters:...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

Allow alt text for brandImage in theme customization.

The Cognos Analytics theme allows administrators to customize the text and images of the welcome page using brandText and brandImage. The brandImage contains the organization name and is very clear for visually acute users. To accommodate the visu...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Extend Role-based access control to data columns

We are facing the need to limit access to certain data columns/fields in LSF Explorer for certain roles. In our environment a few different teams will make use of the reporting capabilities of LSF Explorer in different scopes. Nevertheless, LSF Ex...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Add Addenda columns to the Gateway CSV files

Please add the following 2 columns to the Gateway CSV timing files: 1) # of Addenda records processed2) Sum of Items and Addenda processed
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 2 Not under consideration