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Workspace Financial Transaction Manager
Components FTM Base
Created by Guest
Created on May 5, 2025

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Comprehensive Rollback Solution for IBM FTM Version Upgrades

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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 backup and restore process would inevitably cause significant data loss that would not achieve the business’ Recovery point objectives (RPO).  This approach introduces significant risk and operational complexity while extending critical system downtime.

Proposed Enhancement Framework:

  • Thorough Database Schema Change Documentation: Detailed mapping of all schema modifications between versions with comprehensive impact analysis
  • Database Rollback and Migration Support: Provide scripts or purpose-built migration utilities to preserving data integrity across version transitions, OR certify that new version of database schema can safely be used with old version of code (n-1)
  • Support for Parallel Execution: support running multiple versions of application code (n and n-1) simultaneously on n version of database with minimal configuration overhead. 

Success Metrics:

  • Complete system restoration (application and database layers) within established recovery timeframes (4 hour RTO)
  • Zero data compromise during rollback operations (no transaction lost, additional column level data may be dropped or ignored)
  • Full functional equivalence post-restoration
  • Comprehensive audit documentation of all rollback procedures
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  • Guest
    May 15, 2025

    I agree with Donald. However, I think that "Support for Parallel Execution" should be a separate RFE.  Let's get the documentation and roll-back done, gain some experience, and then take on parallel execution.  I suppose that it could be an implementation detail, and may be a separate set of stories under the same epic, but the size will double, and it creates a new support dynamic.  

    Second, what are the provisions for customizations? How does the customer "certify" that custom tables and data usage don't break in this process.  

    Lastly, can we package with agentic AI to provide the "comprehensive impact analysis", including customization.   

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  • Guest
    May 14, 2025

    I really like the idea of:

    Database Rollback and Migration Support: Provide scripts or purpose-built migration utilities to preserving data integrity across version transitions, OR certify that new version of database schema can safely be used with old version of code (n-1)

    However, I would reword it to be AND

    Provide scripts or purpose-built migration utilities to preserving data integrity across version transitions, AND certify that new version of database schema can safely be used with old version of code (n-1)

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