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Financial Transaction Manager

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New field on the Task Configuration screen to then be used to filter/group records displayed in the Task Configuration screen

Provide a new field on the New Task Configuration screen which we could then use to filter/group tasks on the Task Operation screen via a filter feature added here. This new field should be a text field that we could use to input a priority or gro...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Not under consideration

Configure Duplicate database purge to run on weekends only

The Duplicate data base purge task that is scheduled to run periodically throughput that day is negatively impacting the response times on Duplicate Detect Engine and Suspect items review functions. We need the ability to schedule the purge task o...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Not under consideration

Automation for FXH war file deployment

We are interested in automating the manual steps of upgrades (e.g. FTM 3.2.6 - > 3.2.9) We usually run a DSU for Digital Payments, which installs ears, wars, etc. For IP, we usually have some manual steps to place jar files and wars. Would like...
almost 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 2 Not under consideration

items failing to decompress getting ICM3351 errors and item is auto adjusted off

Enable the TIFF-CORR rules along with and IQA-FBW Decompress and drop the provided file TiffInvalidTags.dat. This then fails the Decompress test and generates the ICM3351. See PMR TS007333805
about 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Future consideration

Smart Administration & Operation (AO) Facility UI

the missing user friendlyness is a negative factor during stressing situations impacting the live operations.
about 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Not under consideration

Provide a means to quiesce individual TCH Connectors without causing timeouts

We need a way to quiesce individual connectors so TCH no longer sends us items on that connector. Stopping them in IIB would have that effect, but any messages TCH sends to that connector's queue will time out, causing failed transactions. We need...
about 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / TCH RTP 0 Future consideration

Allow TCH Connectors to read non-admin messages from all available queues rather than just 1.

By design, the HA configuration of FTM has a 1:1 relationship between its 4 connectors and and 4 corresponding TCH servers for credit transfers and other business messages. This presents problems of timeouts for in-flight credit transfer messages ...
about 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / TCH RTP 0 Future consideration

Make FTM IP Purge Utility OCP Compatible

Purge Utility delivered with FTM IP can be configured using a Cron job to trigger it run and purge transactions in FTM Database. Since FTM IP/DP has been configured on OCP now, we expect FTM Purge Utility to be OCP Compatible. As of now Utility is...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Future consideration

The request for return of funds DP webservice requires that the client pass an internal FTM

The request for return of funds DP webservice requires that the client pass an internal FTM unit of work ID of either the FTM txnID or the DP txnID of the master credit transfer. The client channel has no visibility into these internal FTM IDs and...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Future consideration

Need to add indicator for setting a priority in Initiate Credit Transfer API

Need to add indicator for setting a priority in Initiate Credit Transfer API. We need the priority field so that Calling application can set the priority for transaction such as for batch vs retail transaction.
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Planned for future release