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FTM for SWIFT Services

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The query criteria “Store Time” in MER Message List Filter confuses customer and end-user.

System: Message Entry and Repair Facility Actor: End-user Employees of financial institutions can use the Message Entry and Repair (MER) Facility to manually process financial messages. End-user is always using filter function in MER list page to ...
almost 5 years ago in FTM for SWIFT Services / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Automatic activation of accounting for the SIPN FIN and FMT FIN services.

The manual procedure described in "System Administration Guide" for "Collecting accounting data for the SIPN FIN and FMT FIN services" is prone to be forgotten or overseen and should be better replaced by an automatic procedure like that applying ...
almost 5 years ago in FTM for SWIFT Services / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Improved retry handling for FA transfers based on status information

The request is needed since the retry for files in Accepted status is no more needed given that SWIFT retries for 4 hours, if after 4 hours a file is not sent, it means that a huge technical problem is likely affecting the receiver, in this case w...
almost 5 years ago in FTM for SWIFT Services / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Request to manage the life-cycle state of FTM SWIFT security entities from additional users

The FTM SWIFT security entities (roles, role groups, and users) go through a configuration process during which the entity is in different states.After rejecting changes to a specified entity, the life-cycle state is moved from "Committed" to "In ...
almost 5 years ago in FTM for SWIFT Services / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

MER enhancement for user routing of messages

Not all incoming SWIFTNet messages can be processed straight-through. In some cases references are missing or the message's content requires manual review. These messages will be routed to MER queues on which users can view, delete or print the me...
almost 5 years ago in FTM for SWIFT Services / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

pacs and camt message <AppHdr>

Currently the Business Application Header or the <AppHdr> elements for ISO 20022 pacs and camt messages are not displayed in both Formatted and Unformatted screen in FTM MER. This <AppHdr> contains information that is useful for SWIFT ...
12 months ago in FTM for SWIFT Services / Transaction Processing - Ingestion 0 Future consideration

Migrate function for MER-queues

We would like a migrate function like migtbl; for other queues that template-queues ie. a migrate-function that could migrate all message in MER with the possiblity so specify queuename. Function should have -rehearse option like migtbl.
almost 5 years ago in FTM for SWIFT Services / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Tool for reporting last-used dates and extracting contents from MER templates.

a) A tool for reporting the last used-used timestamp of MER templates.Refer to MR0816126628 , MER: Templates should get a last-used timestamp.The tool should create a file/report that identifies and shows details of templates and also reports the ...
almost 5 years ago in FTM for SWIFT Services / Integration 1 Not under consideration

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.
almost 5 years ago in FTM for SWIFT Services / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

MER performance enhancement

In the Entry and Repair page, the performance of Filter and Find Message function is not as good as customer expects, especially for their administrator who has the right to manipulate more than 6000 MER Queues in their environment. Customer belie...
about 4 years ago in FTM for SWIFT Services / Performance 0 Planned for future release