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Financial Transaction Manager

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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

The TCH Connector and TCH Simulator applications don't support the remote queue manager connection

The out of box IIB projects provide in the FTM IP package is coded to support the local queue manager. we have the IIB code hosted on Open shift and the Queue manger hosted remotely. With this setup, the IIB out of box code does not support remote...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / TCH RTP 0 Future consideration

Purge utility configuration parameters enhancement request for FTM V3.0 on z/OS

The current (FTM V3.0.0.4) purge utility requires changes to a properties file, which in a production environment, is restricted. The purge utility can also benefit from re-design to allow additional configuration, delivering improved usability.
about 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Is a defect

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

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

262-Photometric Interpretation 108-PhotoMetric Black is Zero actual value = 1 when the expected was 0.

262-Photometric Interpretation 108-PhotoMetric Black is Zero actual value = 1 when the expected was 0. Classic corrects the above tiff error and FTM does not.
over 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0