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Financial Transaction Manager

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Support longer passwords for standalone utilities using DB2

The standalone DB2 utilities of FTM SWIFT should allow using a password longer than 8 characters. This is required to use moden authentication means as pass phrases or pin/token. On z/OS, this implies support of JDBC type 4 connections. Relevant u...
about 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Delivered

FTM for SWIFT - Amount field with ',' formatting on the MER screen

PBB would like the following requirement implemented... Problem Description: By default MER Screen expecting to enter a ',' as a separator in the amount field. Is there any setting in FTM to change to amount format to include '.' instead of ',' e....
about 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Delivered

Local Time Stamp (MYT +GMT8) for Message History entries in Soft Copy Print

The data written in the Print File for Message History entries are in UTC timestamp (ie. 111620) Expected results : To be shown in Local timestamp (ie. 191620) Please check the attached. Message History Timestamp (highlighted in Red) is using UTC ...
about 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Delivered

Inbound Transmission Hierarchy Screen "Sticky Tab" option to leave on rear until operator chooses otherwise if an operator selects rear image in the details then starts moving from item to item in Transmission Hierarchy

When a TCR operator needs to see validation on the back of the check to find amount error on Inbound Transmission Hierarchy screen: select rear image and start moving from item to item usually for a batch of cashed checks 10 to 30 items in a row....
about 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Delivered

FTM should have logic to understand and fix the different states a payment should be and also have logic to re-try if a payment is in an out-of sync status between FTM and EWS.

Examples: HNB customer receives money, FTM attempted to make the PaymentStatusUpdate call to EWS as Delivered and experienced a connection issue and did not get a success/failure back from EWS. FTM treated this as a success and marked the payment...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Zelle 1 Delivered

Generate posting file based on settlement date

Scenario: When the customer sends a file containing multiple payments with different settlement date, posting file per settlement date for the input file needs to be generated. For example, A bank customer sends the following payments in a fileDeb...

TCR should alert the user in the item image window on the right side of the inbound transmission hierarchy screen when they have come to the end of a transaction.

Why is it useful – Visual aid for TCR balancers to know when a transaction ends and a new one beings while their eyes are focused on the right side of the Inbound Transmission Hierarchy screen. Who would benefit from it - TCR balancers How should ...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Delivered

Prohibit Cancel on Distributed Transmissions

The request would be for FTM to not allow an inbound transmission to be cancelled if any part of said transmission has been sent to outbound distributions. If the ready for distribution for any cash letter in the file has been flagged as either "c...
almost 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Delivered

TCR Inbound Transmission Hierarchy Filtering Enhancements to Exclude the File, Cash Letter, Processing Cash Letter ad Bundle Records from the Total Item Count at the Top of the Tree View and Filter Results

BB&T would like to see the following TCR filtering enhancements on the Inbound Transmission Hierarchy screen. 1. Exclude the File, Cash Letter, Processing Cash Letter, and Bundle lines from being displayed in the filters after the filters have...
almost 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Delivered

Block 3 field 121 (FIN MT199 and FIN MT103) in lower case despite DABADKKK DnqEROUOptions EditorAllFieldsUppercase FIN

Referring PMR 19041,010,678Also see item #36 in the attached doc. In order to comply with the SWIFT specifications and recommendations for the unique transaction reference (UETR - field 121 in GPI messages MT 103 and MT 199) we urgently need a pos...
almost 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Delivered