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FTM Base

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FTM DB and Datasharing recommendation

Business continuity, High Availability, Scalability, and Performance lead the decision to go with a multi-instance topology, running more than one Financial Transaction Manager instance two or more logical partitions, sharing the same FTM Database...
almost 5 years ago in FTM Base / Standards (Protocols, Rule Books, Specifications, etc.) 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...
about 1 year ago in FTM Base / Usability 0 Not under consideration

FTM OAC to include a NOT statement for status selection to select payments

In FTM UI for various PT and Transactions we are able to filter each record with a state related to it, but we would like to also include a NOT statement where FTM will be able to give details of all the other states than the mentioned one. Below ...
almost 5 years ago in FTM Base / Administration & Configuration 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
10 months ago in FTM Base / Usability 0 Not under consideration

FTM Configurable JDBC Provider for Shutdown Node

This is in regards to PMR 70668,L6Q,000 about Shutdown Node using JDBC Provider "'FTMJDBCProvider'". The name of the JDBC Provider configurable service used by FTM is fixed at 'FTMJDBCProvider' and is not configurable. We want this name to be conf...
almost 5 years ago in FTM Base / Administration & Configuration 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...
about 1 year ago in FTM Base / Usability 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
over 1 year ago in FTM Base / Usability 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
over 1 year ago in FTM Base / Usability 0 Not under consideration

"FTM - Base" provides support for the execution of the generated scripts in local client to remote db server on z/OS

System: Financial Transaction Manager - BaseActor: DeveloperDeveloper uses Rational Software Architect, with FTM Base plugin, to model Finite State Machines (FSM). Description: The FTM RSA tooling should generate sql scripts that will run in a loc...
almost 5 years ago in FTM Base / Developer Tools 0 Not under consideration

FTM Purge Utility : Support jdbc type2 connection on z/OS

Add support for jdbc type2 connection from the purgeDB utility and FTM core.This support is requested for 2 reasons :1 - Performance : With type-2 ( cross mem ), we expect to reduce communication overhead for jdbc link.2 - Workload Management : Wi...
almost 5 years ago in FTM Base / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration