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FTM for Immediate Payments

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Automation for FXH war file deployment

We are interested in automating the manual steps of upgrades (e.g. FTM 3.2.6 - > 3.2.9) We usually run a DSU for Digital Payments, which installs ears, wars, etc. For IP, we usually have some manual steps to place jar files and wars. Would like...
about 2 years ago in FTM for Immediate Payments / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration

Provide a means to quiesce individual TCH Connectors without causing timeouts

We need a way to quiesce individual connectors so TCH no longer sends us items on that connector. Stopping them in IIB would have that effect, but any messages TCH sends to that connector's queue will time out, causing failed transactions. We need...
over 2 years ago in FTM for Immediate Payments / High Availability, Zero Downtime 0 Future consideration

Allow TCH Connectors to read non-admin messages from all available queues rather than just 1.

By design, the HA configuration of FTM has a 1:1 relationship between its 4 connectors and and 4 corresponding TCH servers for credit transfers and other business messages. This presents problems of timeouts for in-flight credit transfer messages ...
over 2 years ago in FTM for Immediate Payments / High Availability, Zero Downtime 0 Future consideration

Canonicalize incoming xml message from TCH before validating the signature on TCH Connector component.

Hello IBM Partners, This is in regards to pmr TS005056798 At Huntington, we are using FTM 3.2.3 Ifix4 for TCH integration. As you might already know TCH Bank test upgraded from RTP 2.9 version to 2.10 version on the evening of 02/16/2021. Starting...
about 3 years ago in FTM for Immediate Payments / Transaction Processing - Validation, Enrichment, Routing 1 Not under consideration

Batch exception not available out of box

There is a business requirement not to reject the entire batch. We experimented with relaxing PAIN schema validation, but found that the code does not support that. (The result is unacceptable: a "Failed" batch will be interrupted at the point of...
over 4 years ago in FTM for Immediate Payments / Other 1 Not under consideration

IBM to provide a feature for aggregated posting to Hogan

IBM to provide a feature for aggregated posting to Hogan The capability of the aggregated posting to Hogan is not built into the FTM yet.
over 4 years ago in FTM for Immediate Payments / Other 2 Not under consideration

FTM to generate TCH Unique ID to be used across the impacted applications (TCH, SPT, Hogan, Fraud, BAM and FTM)

FTM to generate TCH Unique ID to be used across the impacted applications (TCH, SPT, Hogan, Fraud, BAM and FTM) Just an FYI.. however this functionality is included in the July GA release
over 4 years ago in FTM for Immediate Payments / Other 2 Functionality already exists

More lax transaction level duplicate check for transactions that belong to a batch.

More lax transaction level duplicate check for transactions that belong to a batch.
over 4 years ago in FTM for Immediate Payments / Other 1 Planned for future release

Include the TCH id in transaction details (AcctSvcrRef) of status message to channel for batch. Also in status messages to channel for individual payments.

Include the TCH id in transaction details (AcctSvcrRef) of status message to channel for batch. Also in status messages to channel for individual payments.
over 4 years ago in FTM for Immediate Payments / Other 1 Functionality already exists

Make IDs (Transaction/Instruction ID) that are sent in message to TCH available when Fraud screening request is initiated. Currently this ID is assigned after they do the Fraud screening.

Currently this ID is assigned after they do the Fraud screening.
over 4 years ago in FTM for Immediate Payments / Other 1 Functionality already exists