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FTM Base

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Allow Signing of Any Outbound Message with an Local Authenication (LAU) Key

Payment message security and integrity is important and network participation rules continue to involve and add stricter enforcement rules deeper into a bank's processing systems. FTM solutions are a critical step in processing payment messages an...
about 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Extending mapper support to GPA messages

FTM Base doesn't support GPA messages. When we receive GPA MT081 messages they have status Transmission Mapping failed.
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Visible Owner ID of message on OAC screen

we don't have visible owner ID when viewing the message, it is important to find out to which user group it belongs to
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Mark in FTM Base the master message that is sent to MER for printing

The problem is when users have several messages to send from FTM Base to MER for print. In the meantime they receive another message and when they return to search again, they lose track of which message they were on and it can happen that the scr...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

When we look at some message in OAC screen and exit it, we return to the home screen and not to the message itself or to the screen where the message we last viewed is

Returning from a message should allow you to stay on the same message you were viewing, that is, stay on the screen where you were (by returning, you lose track of which line you were on) , our proposal is to somehow mark the message that was view...
almost 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Enable sending individual messages from FTM Base to MER for printing ( pdf format), printing with a visible field description (printing ACKs and incoming messages)

Users can only save the .txt format without field description in Base , they need the ability to send the entire message (ACK with header) in pdf format in case of complaint and also incoming message with fields
about 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Enable message search by input and output sequence number ( ISN,OSN) and by message type, separate outgoing and incoming messages in the view

easier navigation and monitoring of messages, reducing the risk that some messages are not seen immediately
about 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Storing of enriched/additional information outside of the standard data model

in DNB we have to save a lot of information outside of the out of the box FTM Data Model. The main strategies available out of the box are: - use object values/id references --> this leads to a quick proliferation in key value objects which imp...
over 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Allow for FTM Console to point to a read on standby instance of database

We've seen in the past that operators running "bad" queries on the FTM console (say, searching for all transmissions, loading the raw data of a 100 MB file, etc) can cause performance issues for live transactions. We would like to be able to point...
about 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 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