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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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(On behalf of PNC Bank) FTM has default podManagementPolicy of OrderedReady. The Product should support a parallel start for stateful sets.

The default of OrderedReady forces the sequential start of a stateful set. The product should support a parallel start of all pods.
16 days ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 3 Under review

Near-term history data is not carried forward to V6.1

We have upgraded Omegamon for DB2 from 5.5 to Z OMEGAMON AI for Db2 6.1 but we lost near term history data of V5.5 once the Omegamon is in V6.1 and started to build from there . I understand that in 6.1.0, history datasets are formatted at startup...
about 1 month ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

OFI Receiving File Transmission Cancellation Requirements

Overview For OFI receiving files, the requested enhancement is to provide the ability to cancel created transmissions and ensure the appropriate payment state management and business recovery actions are performed. General Requirement Cancellation...

Automatically start up ATF Trace during start up OMPE Collector

You have the option to launch the ATF Trace when the OMPE Collector starts. This trace remains active (with the same normal ATF trace filters, such as PLAN and CORRID) and only intercepts and writes to the dataset when a certain threshold has been...
5 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Enhance the FTM-MER system to support a common user profile with system enforced six eyes control, requiring three distinct users to perform the Maker, Authoriser 1 and Authoriser 2 functions for each transactions.

The proposed enhancement will strengthen operational and system resilience and the overall control environment by reducing dependency on fixed role assignments, while ensuring segregation of duties remain system enforced. This provides greater res...
about 2 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 3 Functionality already exists

Add ability to filter out data going to thread history

Request the ability to filter thread history collection to exclude threads with execution times under one second. Capturing these short‑running threads significantly increases the volume of thread history data while providing limited diagnostic va...
6 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow Omegamon AI for Db2 to rollout maintenance or upgrade by LPAR. Currently it's PLEX-wide, impacting customer rollout.

Overview The current design of the ISPF interface/FPEJINIT code prevents lpar-independent upgrades. IBM has for decades promoted lpar-independent upgrades. An opportunity exists to bring Omegamon for Db2 into the same migration family. ISPF calls ...
3 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Comprehensive Rollback Solution for IBM FTM Version Upgrades

Currently, when post-upgrade issues such as performance degradation emerge after several days in production, only application components can be reverted easily—leaving clients to navigate database backup and restoration processes manually. Any bac...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 2 Under review

REQLOC filtering does not support longer IP names.

OMPE batch reporting has an include/exclude option that allows to filter on the REQLOC (requesting location). When the REQLOC is an IP address that is more than 16 char (very common with current addresses) the filter does NOT work. For example you...
3 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Validation for Returns and Reversals in FTM CPS

Bank of Nova Scotia (aka Scotia Bank) in Canada is implementing IBM FTM CPS to support electronic payments processing compliant with Payments Canada Standard 005. According to the standard (Standard 005 - link), **certain fields marked with * or *...