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Financial Transaction Manager

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CBT automatic reconnect according to SWIFT "best practice"

We faced in production an abort of our FIN LTs with SWIFTs abort reason codes saying "Regional Processor is being shut down". After discussions on PMR 40488,311,75 and a parallel case with SWIFT, it is clear that SWIFT does not document this abort...
about 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 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:...
about 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

Add Addenda columns to the Gateway CSV files

Please add the following 2 columns to the Gateway CSV timing files: 1) # of Addenda records processed2) Sum of Items and Addenda processed
about 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 2 Not under consideration

FTM SWS, Enhanced resilience in z/OS High Availability configuration.

Case: Having FTM SWS running in High Availability mode across several z/OS lpars. Idea: If one FTM SWS on one lpar encounters a problem it should "step back" and let other remaining FTM SWS on other lpars take care of the workload, instead o...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

suggest not append /ftm/v324/ (for ftm base ) and /ftmswift/v324/ (for ftm swift ) whlie using Installation manager to install product

For the IM installation , since the currently design have impact to whole FTM product family , the IM will keep the same append pattern the the following path to the <IM installation directory> in 324: FTM BASE : <IM Installation director...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

Message domains for TARGET2, EURO1 messages

Like we described in Case TS004245021, we made the observation, that FTM SWIFT 3.2.4 does not provide message domains in MER for messages affected by the TARGET2 Consolidation or the EURO1 migration. In order to stay a participate for both Market ...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

RMA filtering/sorting function

1. Allow to mark failed Q&A transmission as handled outside the system (refer to MR0821142527 in WBI-FN requirements database) Customer needs a way to distinct read and unread records from those failed Q&A transmissions, since these data ...
over 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

Multiple LTs operation function

In A&O, customer suggests to have enriched functions of Logical Terminals from the requirement below. Multiple choice of LTs for the case when the wanted action from end-user is identical. 2. Group/Filter LTs by OUs.
over 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

LTs performance monitoring function

Supervisor would like to know the performance of each Logical Terminal in a period of each specific interval. When the processing speed becomes slow or the untreated messages are queued over a certain threshold, a warning or event should be issued...
over 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to display changes made in SYSADM before approval

We have activated Dual Authorization in FTM SWS as part of our CSP. We would like Approvers to be able to list, what was actually changed by person, who comitted the changes. list -ou % -qo O -lo NCSV - shows all configuration for that OU.
almost 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Not under consideration