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My votes: Canadian Payments Association (CPA)

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Seamless transparent deposits and voucher conversation l

Convenience: Enables access to funds without visiting a bank, potentially saving time and effort. Eliminates the need to carry large amounts of cash, reducing security risks. Accessibility: Allows cash deposits for those who prefer cash over digit...
9 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 0 Not under 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

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...
almost 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 0 Not under consideration

Gateway Server should be able to process batches concurrently.

The best TPS we got in gateway server was 150. Our largest file from a customer has around 600k transactions. With the current throughput from Gateway server it woulld take around 1 hour and 7 minutes to ingest those payments. As a result, we woul...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 1 Future consideration

Secondary approval needed for actions taken on the several screens

No description provided
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 2 Not under consideration

Have FTM Public Views That Mirror Control Center's UI Data Model

The FTM Control Center's operational data model consists of: - Inbound Physical Transmission - Inbound Transmission - Inbound Batch - Processing Batch - Inbound Segments - Transactions - Endpoints - Outbound Batches - Outbound Transmissions - Outb...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 1 Functionality already exists

Set persistence and expiry of MQ messages at the application level

Actor: User needs enhanced features In our company, we do not define queues with persistent, but expect the application has the ability to set it as persistent in the MQMD. Additionally, messages should have a set expiry (not set to infinite). Bot...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 2 Not under consideration

Control Center allows multiple actions to be taken on same payment, and show on the approvals screen

The user is able to take multiple actions on the same payment file. Then the secondary operator is able to approve/deny multiple times, even though only one action is considered.

Color coding change for Inbound Transmission Screen

We are on FTM4CPS 3.0.2.1 iFix 12 on linux, with DB2 on z/OS. We have a business requirement to color code the CPS inbound transmissions screen, so that other records are displayed by color according to the Inbound Product Subscriptions (of the Pa...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 1 Not under consideration

Add approver and date-time to the Control Totals screen

The Corporate Payments Services control center displays Control Totals. This screen should include a column listing list the user ID that entered the control total. Also, a column to show the date and time , the control total was entered.
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 1 Not under consideration