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Financial Transaction Manager

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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 ...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 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 ...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 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...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 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 ...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

MER enhancement for user routing of messages

Not all incoming SWIFTNet messages can be processed straight-through. In some cases references are missing or the message's content requires manual review. These messages will be routed to MER queues on which users can view, delete or print the me...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 3 Not under consideration

File based monitors

Client requirement is to make file limit checking. We can go with transaction limit, making number of days 0. It works, but it is impossible to make this monitor overrideable (tried changing risk error code with no effect). Also, next to suspendab...
about 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 0 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