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Financial Transaction Manager

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As part of AFT application, we found issues with Automatic Distribution of Outound Transmissions by the distribution scheduler. We raised PMR# TS004448402 for the same. As per the PMR updates, the product is working as designed and required by ACH. But we see there is some scope of improvement here as mentioned in details in the PMR.

On doing test-cases surrounding "Automated Distribution" issue, we found that if a processing batch is "Not Ready For Distribution" and all the transactions inside that batch are either in Held or Rejected status, then Distribution Scheduler works...
almost 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 0 Planned for future release

Ability to send RFI (FI to FI) via DPUI for Originated(outgoing) Credit Transfer

Initiate RFI (FI) on outgoing CT – The functionality is listed as non-mandatory on the TCH 2.9 certification list. It was not implemented in any FTM 3.2 releases Ops tried to initiate a FI to FI RFI on an originated transaction and was not able to...
almost 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Planned for future release

In FTM DP 3.2.4 USA Version, we are trying to process incoming Canada ACH CPA005 PAD files via FTM. CPA005 is converted to ISF and then feed to Digital Payments. But in the digital payments screen, some of the fields are not populated\mapped as shown in screenshot. We are unsure about the fields to be mapped in ISF, in order to get below highlighted fields populated in DP screen.

FTM-DP UI Field Name Inbound Transmission Hierarchy -> Parties -> Originator -> Identifier Inbound Transmission Hierarchy -> Parties -> Originator -> Name Inbound Transmission Hierarchy -> Total Credit Difference Also IBM team...
almost 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 0 Planned for future release

Need a mechanism to hold an individual transaction for vetting by Safer Payments, while allowing other transactions to pass

This would work with Safer Payments to allow valid transactions to flow through FTM for processing, while only holding back individual transactions requiring more time for Safer Payments/fraud team to investigate.
almost 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 2 Functionality already exists

Client is looking for custom screen, custom fields, and search options in the FTM4SWIFT MER screen.

Currently, In MERVA environment client using custom MERVA screen and custom fields to journal (Message Tracking) all incoming/outgoing FIN SWIFT messages as well re-routing activities within MERVA branches/users. For All the Message Types, the fo...
almost 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Functionality already exists

Integrate FTM with SailPoint IdentityNow for centralized user account governance and provisioning.

SailPoint can be integrated via an API or a JDBC connection directly to the database. The IdentityNow product would need to be able to perform the following: 1) Add a user and assign to an existing FTM group or groups 2) Change a users group membe...
almost 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Functionality already exists

Support LDAP configuration for ADU deployment on single WAS server environments.

Please refer to IBM case TS003932375 for more details
about 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 1 Not under consideration

Cloud Native Architecture for FTM

Need timeline to implement using micro service architecture vs current pattern of monolith style architecture. Circuit Breaker design pattern – FTM as an application to provide out of box Retries, Timeout, Store & Forward abilities when integr...
about 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Not under consideration

Other APIs to support business functions

Other APIs to support business functions Limit Holiday Fee Routing Code Business cut-offs.
about 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Not under consideration

Payment / Schedules

We need single Payment API with support of immediate, Future and recurring payments based on ISO data model with custom attribute support. Single API to create / retrieve information across all payment types. Single API for payments with all frequ...
about 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Not under consideration