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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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Foreign keys to be able to use compound indexes.

With the following the existing compound index is not used for the foreign key and another index is required. This adds overhead with additional maintenance. create table p1 (t char(4) not null); create unique index px1 on p1(t); alter table p1 ...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

SMF data for use of SORTL and z15 Z Sort accelerator

Recently we have had some issues and queries around use of SORTL by Db2Sort and currently the only way to track whether SORTL is being used by Db2Sort is to scan every job and look for the message "CNK558I SORTL INSTRUCTION USED". To report on usa...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Sort for z/OS 1 Future consideration

DR repair index - Not applicable to RSS servers

We have an index corrupted as a result of applying a new fragmentation strategy. The index is fine on the primary but corrupted on both HDR and two RSS servers. The only way of fixing this index is to rebuild the index online which will take a hou...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Multiple windows for SQL Results

When using the Data perspective to run SQL you have to independently click on the SQL results to view the result for each run in the right hand window. Suggestion would be to make it possible to break out each result into its own movable window, b...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 1 Not under consideration

Externalize Environment Entries for OAC, so values not overwritten during EAR redployment

Externalize environment entries for the FTM.ear When FTM.ear is deployed in WebSphere, the current FTM environment entries are externalized to DB.
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration