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FTM for SWIFT Services

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ISN/OSN number in Message List Filter criteria

In MER, Entry and Repair message, after queue selection, there is Edit Filter option to open Message List Filter. Message List Filter has few criteria like Domain, Type, Message ID, Amount to filter required messages. ISN/OSN number is not include...
over 2 years ago in FTM for SWIFT Services / Usability 6 Not under consideration

Enhance Page Browsing Function in Message List

In FTM MER, Message List, user has options to select the Next Page/Previous Page/First Page/ Last Page and browse the messages on that page. However, User is not having option to input the page number and browse the target page right away. It is v...
over 2 years ago in FTM for SWIFT Services / Usability 2 Not under consideration

FTM for Swift Services to support Universal Tablespace Partition by growth.

We would like FTM for Swift Services to support Universal Tablespace Partition by growth for Audit Tables.
almost 5 years ago in FTM for SWIFT Services / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

MT7xx / free text fields

MER facility:when (manually creating) an MT7xx is it often the case that text for free text fields are copied from several sourcen (because of contracts, etc).by doing so (copying from a source and pasting) MERVA automatically frowarded the exceed...
almost 5 years ago in FTM for SWIFT Services / Usability 1 Not under consideration

T2 domain in MER Facility for manual entry of T2 MSGs

MER Facility manual data entry for T2 MSGs would be much easier if there was a T2 domain like there is for CBPR+ or remit solutions , Proxy voting MX MSGs This would help data entry users to verify the fields and the whole MSGs according to ECB ru...
over 2 years ago in FTM for SWIFT Services / Transaction Processing - Validation, Enrichment, Routing 0 Not under consideration

Message WareHouse Power Search of SWIFT Messages (MT and MX)

Currently COGNOS is used to query MT and MX messages. For MT there is a free text search, but the same is not made available for MX messages. In addition, general query performance is slow. Note that I have look at other SWIFT products, and they a...
almost 5 years ago in FTM for SWIFT Services / Other 2 Not under consideration

The query criteria “Store Time” in MER Message List Filter confuses customer and end-user.

System: Message Entry and Repair Facility Actor: End-user Employees of financial institutions can use the Message Entry and Repair (MER) Facility to manually process financial messages. End-user is always using filter function in MER list page to ...
almost 5 years ago in FTM for SWIFT Services / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Automatic activation of accounting for the SIPN FIN and FMT FIN services.

The manual procedure described in "System Administration Guide" for "Collecting accounting data for the SIPN FIN and FMT FIN services" is prone to be forgotten or overseen and should be better replaced by an automatic procedure like that applying ...
almost 5 years ago in FTM for SWIFT Services / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Improved retry handling for FA transfers based on status information

The request is needed since the retry for files in Accepted status is no more needed given that SWIFT retries for 4 hours, if after 4 hours a file is not sent, it means that a huge technical problem is likely affecting the receiver, in this case w...
almost 5 years ago in FTM for SWIFT Services / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Request to manage the life-cycle state of FTM SWIFT security entities from additional users

The FTM SWIFT security entities (roles, role groups, and users) go through a configuration process during which the entity is in different states.After rejecting changes to a specified entity, the life-cycle state is moved from "Committed" to "In ...
almost 5 years ago in FTM for SWIFT Services / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration