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Add additional analysis to Recovery Plan creation to reduce overall Recovery Plan

We are currently testing DB2 Recovery Expert and our analysis is showing that we can have a very large Recovery Plan that includes objects that may not need reeovery. This might be due to the fact that Recovery Expert is analyzing the DB2 Catalog ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide an additional output DD for Recovery Plan messages that cause Plan create failures

We are testing Recovery Expert and as part of our POC one of our batch runs produced an extremely large amount of output in the ARYEXPLN DD (over 139,500 lines). The job ended with a RC=8 and an indication that a Recovery Plan could not be created...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Issue a warning or a report where a table or objects can be included in more than 1 profile

Since an application recovery profiles can cover multiple db2 objects e.g. say 20 tables, the same table can qualify for the object pattern in more than 1 application profile. when in a mass recovery scenario the first application profile will run...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

EXTFILE size needs to be in TCz

The size of the EXTFILE is actually hard coded in the skeleton. Other than reducing the scan range (currently 3 and 7 hrs), we can recommend updating the skeleton. For the transaction scan, you can edit SARYSLIB members ARYINBX (currently line 90)...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Recover of freed packages

We would like to be able to recover freed packages. One of our clients always performs bind from a temporary library to avoid cluttering. This means it can require some investigation to find the correct DBRMs, especially if a lot of package were f...
about 6 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Have FTM Public Views That Mirror Control Center's UI Data Model

The FTM Control Center's operational data model consists of: - Inbound Physical Transmission - Inbound Transmission - Inbound Batch - Processing Batch - Inbound Segments - Transactions - Endpoints - Outbound Batches - Outbound Transmissions - Outb...
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 1 Functionality already exists

Set persistence and expiry of MQ messages at the application level

Actor: User needs enhanced features In our company, we do not define queues with persistent, but expect the application has the ability to set it as persistent in the MQMD. Additionally, messages should have a set expiry (not set to infinite). Bot...
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 2 Not under consideration

Control Center allows multiple actions to be taken on same payment, and show on the approvals screen

The user is able to take multiple actions on the same payment file. Then the secondary operator is able to approve/deny multiple times, even though only one action is considered.

Color coding change for Inbound Transmission Screen

We are on FTM4CPS 3.0.2.1 iFix 12 on linux, with DB2 on z/OS. We have a business requirement to color code the CPS inbound transmissions screen, so that other records are displayed by color according to the Inbound Product Subscriptions (of the Pa...
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 1 Not under consideration

Add approver and date-time to the Control Totals screen

The Corporate Payments Services control center displays Control Totals. This screen should include a column listing list the user ID that entered the control total. Also, a column to show the date and time , the control total was entered.
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 1 Not under consideration