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Financial Transaction Manager

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

Ability to export message list of a FTM MER Queue to a spreadsheet.

Our users requested to have the ability to export the message list of a FTM MER queue into a excel spreadsheet. This would especially be useful when the message list may span multiple pages.
almost 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Future 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
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 2 Not under consideration

Enhance MT to MX Mappers to Support Additional ISO Payment Schemes

The existing MT to MX translation correctly translates MT to CBPR+ messages. However, not all ISO schemes have the same fields as CBPR+. The existing MT to MX implementation will not create a syntactically correct Target2 message. The following pa...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Not under consideration

Enhance MT Outbound Post Mapper to Support Changing of MT Field Values

The current MT Outbound Post Mapper already has the MT message converted to a blob and so there is no easy way to change an MT field value. The MT Post Mapper should work more like the ISO Post Mappers in the sense that the Post Mapper can add, de...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Not under consideration

Support Mapping PACS.008 Group Header Control Sum Field

Enhance the product PACS.008 inbound and outbound mapper to support the mapping of ISO200222's generic PACS.008 /Document/FIToFICstmrCdtTrf/GrpHdr/CtrlSum field. Ideally, all generic group header fields would be supported.
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Not under consideration