Services provided by FTM SWIFT

The services provided by FTM SWIFT are listed in Table 1, and described in the following sections.

Table 1. Services provided by FTM SWIFT
Type	Name	Description
Event recording and administration	Event	Stores and publishes events. See Event service.
	Exception conversion	Converts exceptions to events. See Exception conversion service.
	Event administration	Used to list or delete events. See Event administration service.
Event monitoring	Monitor	Used by an operator to monitor events. See Event monitoring.
Event monitoring	Event notification	Writes events to system console. See Event monitoring.
Time-based processing	Note: The services provided for time-based processing are deprecated and contained for compatibility reasons only.
	Timer	After the specified time elapses, sends a message to another service. See Timer service.
	Timer input	After the specified time elapses, sends a message to the next node in the message flow. See Timer Input service.
Auditing	Message Audit	Records audit data for messages. See Auditing.
Accounting	Accounting Preparation	Prepares accounting data. See Accounting.
	Accounting data gatherer	Collects accounting data. See Accounting.
	Accounting data administration	Administers accounting data. See Accounting.
Import templates	Template import	Imports message templates. See Template import.
Message storage	Message warehouse insert	Inserts messages into the message warehouse database. See Message warehouse.
Message storage	Message warehouse update	Updates messages in the message warehouse database. See Message warehouse.
System administration	Configuration	Used to specify configuration data, and to add such data to messages. See Configuration services.
System administration	Security	Used to administer security entities (roles, role groups, and users) and to check security assignments. See Security services.
SAG administration	SAG configuration	Used to configure SAG workstations. See SAG administration.
	SAG operation	Used to operate SAG workstations. See SAG administration.
	SAG clustering	Used when setting up SAGs, and to arrange for several SAGs to share a common workload. See SAG administration. Note: Although the SAG clustering service is not implemented using IBM® Integration Bus message flows or nodes, the resources it uses, for example, the interface queues and input queue of each SAG cluster, are customized and maintained using FTM SWIFT. Therefore, it is an FTM SWIFT service.
FIN message transfer and LT session operation	SIPN FIN	Used to send individual messages to, and receive them from, the SIPN. See SWIFTNet FIN message transfer and session operation.
	FMT FIN	Used to send individual messages to, and receive them from, other LTs, bypassing the SIPN. See SWIFTNet FIN message transfer and session operation.
	SIPN FIN LT session operation	Used to operate SWIFTNet FIN LT sessions. See SIPN FIN LT session operation.
	FMT FIN session operation	Used to operate FMT FIN sessions. See FMT FIN session operation.
	Authorisation administration	Used to administer relationship management (RM) authorisations. See Authorisation administration.
Signature verification	Signature verification	Used to verify the authenticity of the PKI signatures of received messages. See Signature verification.
Message printing	Message Printing	Used to send messages to a printer or to another output medium such as a file. See Message printing.
Message validation and transformation	Message Standards	Used to validate and transform messages. See Message standards.
Message management	Message Management	Used by MER routing flows to route messages to and from queues, and by other routing flows to influence message processing. See FTM SWIFT routing nodes.
Message management	MER queue-depth notification	Generates event messages that notify users when the numbers of messages in MER queues reach or exceed specified thresholds. See MER queue-depth notification service.
Business message and file transfer	MSIF transfer	Used by applications to send and receive business messages and files via the SIPN. See Business message transfer, file transfer, and SnF session operation.
Business message and file transfer	MSIF command	Used to do such things as: Cancel a message or file transfer Recover a file transfer that encountered a recoverable error Start or stop the MSIF transfer service for an OU Operate and monitor SnF sessions See Business message transfer, file transfer, and SnF session operation.

FTM SWIFT provides services to process business messages as shown in Figure 1. The services used to process administration, operation, configuration, and session control commands are shown in Figure 2.

Figure showing Services for processing SWIFTNet message and file traffic — Figure 1. Services for processing SWIFTNet message and file traffic

Figure showing services for controlling SWIFTNet services and sessions — Figure 2. Services for controlling SWIFTNet services and sessions

These services use other FTM SWIFT services, for example, to record audit data or to handle events, configuration, access control, monitoring, and message storage.