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Allow workflow Validation to be run as system Admin like Operations

This is useful in cases where we have validation place on parent and children's object but logic user do not have accedd to them.
4 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

Mark an item to go to balancing function after payment repair is completed

Provide an ability to mark/identify an item in payment repair, so that the batch that contains the marked item will go to TCR, even though the batch is in balance. Right now, the user changes the amount to all 9999999999 in payment repair to force...
5 days ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Under review

Provide ability to update the extended MICR fields in the user interface

Provide the ability to update the extended MICR fields 9 thru 15 in the Payment repair and TCR functions. A use case can be to accept the currency denomination type (US or Canadian) for the items with Canadian routing numbers (RT format 5-3).
5 days ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Under review

Ensure that FTM for Check user interface works in conjunction with AppDynamics monitoring

AppDynamics is the recommended monitoring tool used at Citibank. However, when we enable AppDynamics on the FTM JVMs, we get exceptions while loading some of the pages in the FTM UI. To overcome this issue, we have disabled AppDynamics monitoring ...
5 days ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Under review

Command 'db2pd -reorgs index' does not show info about the progress of reorg index with 'cleanup all' or 'reclaim extents'

There is a limitation to show info with db2pd -reorgs index for command like reorg indexes all for table ... allow write access cleanup all reclaim extents. It is possibile to monitor progress of reorg offline and online but not for the above case...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Under review

Write Failed Lock Escalation Attempts to Master

Currently, when Lock Escalation succeeds, a message is written to the Master Log with details. However, when a Lock Escalation attempt fails (due to a timeout or deadlock), nothing is written. This sort of timeout or deadlock can be difficult to d...
8 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Support SORTWK with EAV

We run a REORG on a tablepace (~5TB) with 3 IXs and need ~17TB sort space. One of the IX (an NPI) needs ~15TB. We had a pool with 30TB, but this does not help/count. Reason: As the allocation of the SORTWKs by DB2 is limited to 10TB (255 * the lim...
19 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Improvement in Db2 LOAD UTILITY processes associate with data replication via Qrep

-Need: Meet the growing demand for data replication from Banco do Brasil -Scenario: Banco do Brasil is a large user of data replication using Qrep (IIDR) + DB2 v13 for zOS, there are thousands of tables replicated from production environments for ...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Suppression of validation check messages

Need the ability to suppress validation checks and only display custom validation messages in production environments. Currently when a validation fails all validation check messages are displayed on the screen as well as the custom validation mes...
5 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Sending a reply from MQ-Listener even when the MSGTYPE is not REQUEST

Currently it is possible to change the REPLY-Queue and REPLY-QueueManager via StoredProcedures which are started by the MQ-Listener if the Message was sended with MessageType = REQUEST. But it is not possible to send a REPLY if the MessageType is ...
5 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review