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Financial Transaction Manager

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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

FTM IP Process Steps Have User Exit Enabling "Routing Ticket" on Per Message Basis

Background The current FTM Immediate Payments products of TCH, SCT and HVP allow a bank to customize the Services called at each workflow step (e.g. PreCheck, PreSubmit, PostAccept, etc). The limitation is the customization is limited to a payment...
about 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Not under consideration

MT Message with Field Labels

To generate daily Reports for customer, we are using MWH Tables. Customer is having a requirement to generate a report which shows the MT Message Content with Field Labels. We could get MT Message Content from MWH Tables but not the Field Labels. ...
over 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 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

Business Rules Server's "Distribution Done" message should include success/failure information

In support case TS007497792 (RTP-1184 PERF Gateway Server 1Q1 has not been processing any transactions), we had a problem resulting from failures in the workflow activation for one of our 4 gateway servers. Because we scanned for the final message...
over 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 3 Not under consideration

FTM documentation in Knowledge Center spread over several versions

Documentation for FTM is spread over multiple versions in the FTM knowledge center.For example, the Knowledge center for FTM for z/OS 3.0.1 has only information about FTM CPS, RIsk Management and Services and PFS, and misses a wide variety of info...
about 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

OAC pages should show creation timestamp on errors

On the details page of any FTM object (PT, batch, transaction, svc_participant...) the errors tab shows a list of errors. The errors attribute include the following, but not the creation date and time IDApplication IDTypeComponent TypeComponent Na...
about 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

WBIFN RMA Record Last Usage

In relation to the recent SWIFT Security initiatives, we want to request the functionality in FTM for SWIFT and WBIFN V3.1.1 where we can generate the last usage report for all RMA records. This functionality is available for SAA/RMA users.
about 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

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