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Provide more informative error messages for database connection issues in the UI.

Currently, users encounter vague error messages in the UI when facing database connection issues, which necessitates accessing CP4D logs to identify the root cause. By enhancing the clarity and detail of these error messages, users will have a mor...
about 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Allow additional parameter configurations, like transaction isolation level, during DB2 connection setup

Currently, options such as setting the transaction isolation level are only available in the 'Generic JDBC' connector. By enabling these settings directly within the DB2 connection setup, users will have greater flexibility and control over connec...
about 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Denodo support

We need Denodo support for DataStage using the Denodo JDBC drivers. Currently JDBC can be used, but connecting to Denodo is not supported by IBM.
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

In SQL replication, do not re-execute signals that have already been executed.

In SQL replication, as in Q Capture, add a reprocess_signals to the parameters of the capture and set the default to N. Do not re-execute a signal that has already been executed if the minimum LSN is less than the last signal LSN at the start of t...

DataStage Oracle/ODBC connector stage performance

We have IBM InfoSphere Platform and thousands of DataStage Jobs. Lot of these jobs use Oracle and ODBC connector Stage to connect to Oracle DBaaS database. These stages are running queries against system tables frequently and causing performance d...
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Generate UETRs for MX during MSIF sending, not in the MER Data Entry (DNIMX&DNIFINPLUS)

1. For T2 MSGs that we enter in DNIMX domain the field for UETR is not mandatory so we can leave it empty but when we send the MSG from MER to InterAct and to SWIFTNet the UETR is not calculated and field PmtId – UETR is empty even if we put CD co...
over 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 5 Future consideration

API Key option in platform connection for db2

Hello Team, I am trying to create platform connection on cp4d portal for db2u deployment but there is no option for API key authentication we need to supply mandatory values i.e. username and password I choose "IBM db2" while creating platform con...
4 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

MER - enable checking line length (number of characters in one line) in fields with free input

In the fields in message in MER, which are free input during entry, there is no check of line length or number of lines. You can write unlimited in one line. There is no entry like in MERVA. Only purely structured fields, i.e. those with options A...
almost 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Functionality already exists

FTM for Swift- message printing layout

Adjustment of the message printout to be more similar to Merva's printout, the data is quite unreadable because the field descriptions and the field content are not separated, the problems are bigger with large messages that have a lot of fields. ...
almost 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Not under consideration

Empty Remote DN in MX MSGs with manual entry in MER

We would like a warning MSG to be issued if Remote DN is not Entered in MX MSGs (DNIFINPLUS and DNIMX domains) because the MSG sent to InterAct will get the error in MSG Send Notification.
over 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Future consideration