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FTM for SWIFT Services

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We would like to have FTM in High Availability

In an HA environment with 2 FTM SWIFT nodes there is a restriction to have a single copy of the FTM SWIFT code in a shared library /usr/lpp/IBM/ftmswift/v300, visible from both LPARs
almost 5 years ago in FTM for SWIFT Services / Usability 0 Not under consideration

FTM SWIFT Service to support Db2 pureScale

Currently, FTM for SWIFT Service does not formally support Db2 pureScale as FTM database on AIX platform, and has not been tested with it. Without pureScale support by FTM SS, it would not be able to provide Active/Active configuration for FTM dat...
almost 5 years ago in FTM for SWIFT Services / Technology Stack Support (OS, Middleware, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration

MER / field 20 / enhanced error message

Message Entry and Repair facility in FTM for SWIFT (formerly WBIFN):when entering a non-SWIFT-character into the field 20, the error message refers to the expected field length, and it also limits the range of valid characters to SWIFT characters:...
almost 5 years ago in FTM for SWIFT Services / Usability 0 Not under consideration

MT7xx / free text fields

MER facility:when (manually creating) an MT7xx is it often the case that text for free text fields are copied from several sourcen (because of contracts, etc).by doing so (copying from a source and pasting) MERVA automatically frowarded the exceed...
almost 5 years ago in FTM for SWIFT Services / Usability 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

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

Implement a config property that allow to control the printing of deleted messages on FTM for SS

When a message is deleted from print queue, a printout is send on the printer. This behavior is as expected, but it would be better to implement a config property that allow to control the printing of deleted messages.
almost 5 years ago in FTM for SWIFT Services / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

ACK messages handling

Our users manage messages waiting for ACK in MERVA in this way: when a message is delivered to WBIFN to be sent, itis also recorded in a MERVA queue called WAITING ACK. This queue is visible to final users. When the ack arrives, the message is del...
almost 5 years ago in FTM for SWIFT Services / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Matching printer layout Merva-Mer

In order to move towards greater simplicity for reading, we need that the new print format (MER) can macth with the old one, (MERVA). In terms of font, field numbers and disposition.
almost 5 years ago in FTM for SWIFT Services / Usability 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