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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...
over 7 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

FTM SWIFT Service to support Db2 pureScale

Currently, FTM for SWIFT Service does not formally support Db2 pureScale as FTM database on AIX platform, and has not been tested with it. Without pureScale support by FTM SS, it would not be able to provide Active/Active configuration for FTM dat...
over 7 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 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 7 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
over 7 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 2 Not under consideration

Add Gateway property to allow customer configuration of large file threshold for allowing other gateways to pick up waiting files

Large files currently use a hard coded 50% of fragmentation setting to determine if they are eligible to move from the currently assigned Gateway to another Gateway that may be available for processing. This can have the effect of backing up large...
almost 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Future consideration

Extend the functionality of the Business Day Category

Even though the application allows business days to be opened for multiple categories, the functionality was not implemented completely. For example, there is no option to make the business day current independently for each category. It makes the...
almost 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Under review

FTM MER Data Entry and Authorization Control

User Profile 1. TCCDE - Data Entry2. TCCAU1 - Authorizer 13. TCCAU2 - Authorizer 2 Scenario 11.TCCDE - Creates the message.2.TCCAU1 - Authorize the message.3.TCCAU2 - Rejects the message. If TCCAU2 User rejects the message, the message goes back t...
almost 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Future consideration

Adding failed payments to outgoing/incoming payments list to cxcparticipantview . The failed payments can be at validaterecipient stage.

When a payment is sent to an unknown zelletag token , payment fails with this error : "errorDescription": "122822: Unable to send money. The zelle tag recipient token is unknown." This is expected behavior. But we also expect this failed payment t...
almost 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Future 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...
almost 6 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...
almost 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration