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Ability to send RFI (FI to FI) via DPUI for Originated(outgoing) Credit Transfer

Initiate RFI (FI) on outgoing CT – The functionality is listed as non-mandatory on the TCH 2.9 certification list. It was not implemented in any FTM 3.2 releases Ops tried to initiate a FI to FI RFI on an originated transaction and was not able to...
almost 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Planned for future release

In FTM DP 3.2.4 USA Version, we are trying to process incoming Canada ACH CPA005 PAD files via FTM. CPA005 is converted to ISF and then feed to Digital Payments. But in the digital payments screen, some of the fields are not populated\mapped as shown in screenshot. We are unsure about the fields to be mapped in ISF, in order to get below highlighted fields populated in DP screen.

FTM-DP UI Field Name Inbound Transmission Hierarchy -> Parties -> Originator -> Identifier Inbound Transmission Hierarchy -> Parties -> Originator -> Name Inbound Transmission Hierarchy -> Total Credit Difference Also IBM team...
almost 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 0 Planned for future release

QREP DDL replication, add UNICODE factor for column length

When replicating from non-unicode to unicode, the legth of char/varchar target columns needs to be extended. Example: create all CHAR/VARCHAR columns at the target with source_length*2 and implemented an additional life belt with OKSQLSTATES = 220...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

unable to update an existing column with varchar definition.

a column defined as varchar returns an error "no more extents" when tried to update. Work around is tedious as we need to unload millions of records, then reload it again.
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Planned for future release

CHCCLP event monitoring restructuring

CHCCLP returns events from the oldest to the newest, with a limit of 10000 events returned. When using CHCCLP to monitor subscription activity, the intent should be to get the most recent events and current status of subscriptions, not the oldest ...
almost 4 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Planned for future release

Dashboard: Top and Bottom filtered values for every Row Repeat and Column Repeat in visualization

Currently, overall Top and Bottom n values are displayed in a visualization irrespective of the Row and Column repeat. For example, Dimension is 'Item' and filter applied on dimension is Top 10, Measure is 'Revenue' and Repeat Row is 'Sale Year' w...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Import from Staging Area - ability to import the same "file" several times

It would be very useful to be able to more easy rerun batchjob/importing a file from staging area. After looking at the Log report - after one import from Staging Area - it would be good to be able to rerun the report. For example if the period wa...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Allow DSN line command on panel ADB21T

In order to find out data set name(s) for a given table space , you have to be in panel ADB21S and type the DSN line command next to the relevant tablespace. If you have requested details of a table and you are in panel ADB21T, you cannot find out...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

MDM Beta: API to match subset of records or delta new records?

The APIs seems to only allow you to perform bulk matching of all the data to all the data. If it was extended to allow you to do matching for delta new records, like all records from a given date, or all records since last match, then it would all...
almost 4 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Planned for future release

MDM Beta: Show time remaining when loading data or performing matching.

So far I get the impression that MDM Beta is slow. Because a user is phsyically waiting on the screen for something to happen, please show an indicator of estimated time remaining so they know if they should wait or go for a coffee break. If possi...
almost 4 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Planned for future release