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Canadian Payments Association (CPA)

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No Audit Trail available for state/column change for a Payment/Item in FTM for CPS PFS layer

As per our analysis, we could find audit trail for transmission and batches. But there is no Audit trail for a payment/item. For example when does a payment's state change from Received to Accepted, From Accepted to Cancelled, from not-posted to p...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 0 Not under consideration

FTM CPS : UI should not allow Manual Return of Transaction with all available Return Reason Codes irrespective of its Record Type (PMR# TS004455925)

Whenever we try to manually return a transaction from UI it allows us to return the transaction with all the available reason codes irrespective of the record type(Credit/ Debit). According CPA Rules, UI should allow Debit and Credit records to be...
almost 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 0 Not under consideration

FTM CPS : Manual Returns from UI : Should be validating CPA rules for time limits for Returns. (Ref PMR TS004363369)

CPA Rule for Returning an AFT Transaction requires below date-time range validation. -> for credit transaction, the difference should not be more than 90 days. -> for personal debit transaction, the difference should not be more than 90 days...
almost 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 0 Not under consideration

As part of AFT application, we found issues with Automatic Distribution of Outound Transmissions by the distribution scheduler. We raised PMR# TS004448402 for the same. As per the PMR updates, the product is working as designed and required by ACH. But we see there is some scope of improvement here as mentioned in details in the PMR.

On doing test-cases surrounding "Automated Distribution" issue, we found that if a processing batch is "Not Ready For Distribution" and all the transactions inside that batch are either in Held or Rejected status, then Distribution Scheduler works...
almost 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 0 Planned for future release

In FTM DP 3.2.4 USA Version, we are trying to process incoming Canada ACH CPA005 PAD files via FTM. CPA005 is converted to ISF and then feed to Digital Payments. But in the digital payments screen, some of the fields are not populated\mapped as shown in screenshot. We are unsure about the fields to be mapped in ISF, in order to get below highlighted fields populated in DP screen.

FTM-DP UI Field Name Inbound Transmission Hierarchy -> Parties -> Originator -> Identifier Inbound Transmission Hierarchy -> Parties -> Originator -> Name Inbound Transmission Hierarchy -> Total Credit Difference Also IBM team...
almost 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 0 Planned for future release

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

Make "build tables" and release activation command invokable via script

Please provide a solution whereby the “build tables” command and release activation can be invoked from a script. This script must return a valid response code to indicate that the rules were successfully activated. Logs must also be piped from th...

Add IDs and comments to Approvals screen

System: FTM4CPSActor: Operations team Operations performs an action on an inbound in the CPS system, with a comment that applies to their scenario, and notes the transmission ID 1234. The file is now pending secondary approval. The first operator ...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 0 Not under consideration