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Financial Transaction Manager

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Enable message search by input and output sequence number ( ISN,OSN) and by message type, separate outgoing and incoming messages in the view

easier navigation and monitoring of messages, reducing the risk that some messages are not seen immediately
almost 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

add indexes in MWH for BICFI from/to in BAH of InterAct messages' payload.

The SWIFT IA services esmig.t2 and ebacl.e1s1 will introduce the "V-Shape" model with the HVPS migration to ISO20022 in Nov 2022, whereas the ESMIG and E1S1 Operators will always be the Requestor or Responder in the IA-header but not the "correspo...
almost 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Future consideration

CPA005 Transaction Rejected in FTM Base but Accepted by Gateway in PFS layer (Refer WorkItem Work Item 114946)

During AFT application development, we found that FTM Base rejected transactions where getting accepted by Gateway in PFS i.e. FTM Base Rejections are not considered by Gateway for updating a payment's status. We raised a RTC defect 114946 for thi...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 2 Not under consideration

"FTM - Base" provides support for the execution of the generated scripts in local client to remote db server on z/OS

System: Financial Transaction Manager - BaseActor: DeveloperDeveloper uses Rational Software Architect, with FTM Base plugin, to model Finite State Machines (FSM). Description: The FTM RSA tooling should generate sql scripts that will run in a loc...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

FTM Purge Utility : Support jdbc type2 connection on z/OS

Add support for jdbc type2 connection from the purgeDB utility and FTM core.This support is requested for 2 reasons :1 - Performance : With type-2 ( cross mem ), we expect to reduce communication overhead for jdbc link.2 - Workload Management : Wi...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Migrate function for MER-queues

We would like a migrate function like migtbl; for other queues that template-queues ie. a migrate-function that could migrate all message in MER with the possiblity so specify queuename. Function should have -rehearse option like migtbl.
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

Tool for reporting last-used dates and extracting contents from MER templates.

a) A tool for reporting the last used-used timestamp of MER templates.Refer to MR0816126628 , MER: Templates should get a last-used timestamp.The tool should create a file/report that identifies and shows details of templates and also reports the ...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

Regarding 40873 311 758 - Length check in MER

As discussed with Gabi von Carlowitz, I opened this RFE. It is regarding the length checking functionality which is missing in the MER application to avoid that customer entered too long message and thinking that the message is valid.
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Functionality already exists

FTM for SWIFT Services add the processing of camt.077

The message type camt.077 is already delivered in SSR2023, see: https://www2.swift.com/knowledgecentre/kb_articles/5024231.
10 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 3 Not under consideration

DB2 script to remove a version of an FTM Application from the FTM database

That DB2 script could be useful for many purposes. Main reason here is: customer is trying to implement a zero-downtime deployment solution and the solution they are thinking will deploy a new version of the FTM Application into FTM Database and n...
almost 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Under review