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My ideas: Financial Transaction Manager

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MER - enable checking line length (number of characters in one line) in fields with free input

In the fields in message in MER, which are free input during entry, there is no check of line length or number of lines. You can write unlimited in one line. There is no entry like in MERVA. Only purely structured fields, i.e. those with options A...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Functionality already exists

Regarding 40873 311 758 - Length check in MER

As discussed with Gabi von Carlowitz, I opened this RFE. It is regarding the length checking functionality which is missing in the MER application to avoid that customer entered too long message and thinking that the message is valid.
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Functionality already exists

Creating MX message via sample queues/flows

Dear support team, We already have opened a requirement (ID145570) but they suggested to address here a new idea with the following text which we already used in the requirement: Description: This requirement is NOT related to IIB, but to FTM SWI...
about 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Functionality already exists

Encrypt data in transit to DB

per corporate audit finding connections from application must be encrypted, and connection strings modified to use encryption between application and database.
almost 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Functionality already exists

MER Find Message" function"

MER Find Message" function" There are more messages with TTKLC* other than the 5 messages but it shows up the "and more". The user cannot click on the "and more .." to navigate to the next messages. In the "Find Message" function at the Message En...
almost 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Functionality already exists

Allow for the ‘-‘ key to be used as a modifier for hot keys.

There are many limitations to the number of hotkeys that can be used in FTM due to Windows key functions and other conflicts between Shift and ALT with the 10 key pad. Using a modifier outside of the common CTRL, ALT, Shift would allow for a large...
about 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Functionality already exists

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

Support for IE 11

We would like support for IE 11 for the FTM console, we are currently not able to use the latest browser. After log in you are redirected to a white page.
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Functionality already exists

Need a mechanism to hold an individual transaction for vetting by Safer Payments, while allowing other transactions to pass

This would work with Safer Payments to allow valid transactions to flow through FTM for processing, while only holding back individual transactions requiring more time for Safer Payments/fraud team to investigate.
almost 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 2 Functionality already exists

Client is looking for custom screen, custom fields, and search options in the FTM4SWIFT MER screen.

Currently, In MERVA environment client using custom MERVA screen and custom fields to journal (Message Tracking) all incoming/outgoing FIN SWIFT messages as well re-routing activities within MERVA branches/users. For All the Message Types, the fo...
almost 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Functionality already exists