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Financial Transaction Manager

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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...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Segregation of local RMA Filter switch (Enabled/Disabled) by SWIFT Service.

According to Creating COs for RM filtering - IBM Documentation, the local RMA filter can be set to Disabled only for the whole InterAct AND FileAct traffic with -ct DnfRMFilter -co IAFA. However, there is at least the use case where the setting -c...
4 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Submitted

Restrict Message Types with Versions

We are implementing HongKong Region HKICL CHATS RTGS Function using FTMV3.2.4.8, HKICL supports only specific MX messages with specific version. for this requirement we are customizing DNIMX Message domain with HKICL Supported MX Messages, but ...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

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
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

Extend AO Facility User Interface to operate IA & FA channels

A similar function to the FIN LT in Administration&Operation Facility UI would be expected for the InterAct and FileAct connectivity, providing status information on the IA & FA channels and allowing operations on them.
about 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Future consideration

FMT function required for MSIF Services in FinPlus

FMT Function for SIPN-FIN Service is available. But there isn't a similar function for MSIF Service in FinPlus. There will be cost implication if the routing is done through SWIFT.
over 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

(4.0.6.0 ifix3)V4 Tiff tags not being corrected by V4 that are currently corrected by Classic.

TS016756309 Tiff tags not being corrected by V4 that are currently corrected by Classic. Test fileTiffCorrectionAdjusted.dattest file attached 1.00 itemTIFF tag 273-StripOffsetTransaction rejects and warnings report attached1.00_Item_ValidationRep...
5 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Planned for future release

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
about 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 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
about 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

OpenShift Secrets can be viewed as clear text on pods

Credentials setup as OpenShift secrets are readable in clear text on pods, e.g. /startup/variables on Gateway/BR/Transaction pods, /opt/ibm/wlp/usr/servers/defaultServer/variables/ on liberty pods, and /secrets/db2instancepwd/ on database pods. We...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0