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Financial Transaction Manager

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Mark an item to go to balancing function after payment repair is completed

Provide an ability to mark/identify an item in payment repair, so that the batch that contains the marked item will go to TCR, even though the batch is in balance. Right now, the user changes the amount to all 9999999999 in payment repair to force...
7 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Under review

Provide ability to update the extended MICR fields in the user interface

Provide the ability to update the extended MICR fields 9 thru 15 in the Payment repair and TCR functions. A use case can be to accept the currency denomination type (US or Canadian) for the items with Canadian routing numbers (RT format 5-3).
7 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Under review

Ensure that FTM for Check user interface works in conjunction with AppDynamics monitoring

AppDynamics is the recommended monitoring tool used at Citibank. However, when we enable AppDynamics on the FTM JVMs, we get exceptions while loading some of the pages in the FTM UI. To overcome this issue, we have disabled AppDynamics monitoring ...
7 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Under review

Allow Signing of Any Outbound Message with an Local Authenication (LAU) Key

Payment message security and integrity is important and network participation rules continue to involve and add stricter enforcement rules deeper into a bank's processing systems. FTM solutions are a critical step in processing payment messages an...
about 1 year 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...
about 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Future consideration

FTM MER to be able to receive abort notification messages(xsys.012) from SWIFT

When SWIFT generates the negative response (in this case xsys.012), PBB would want FTM MER to be able to pick up the necessary information from Payload and route it to the configured System Message que instead of dropping it to the Error que. When...
8 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0

Enhance logging to include any user access to specific items during review, repair and dup review.

any time a user accesses an item for review, repair or duplicate detect we have a need to have this logged and a record of what item was accessed.
8 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Under review

FTM Configurable JDBC Provider for Shutdown Node

This is in regards to PMR 70668,L6Q,000 about Shutdown Node using JDBC Provider "'FTMJDBCProvider'". The name of the JDBC Provider configurable service used by FTM is fixed at 'FTMJDBCProvider' and is not configurable. We want this name to be conf...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 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...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

Monitor and suggest Gateway Threads

FTM for Digital Payments should offer ways to monitor Gateway Threads and indicate optimal thread values.
9 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Under review