Release Notes for IBM Financial Transaction Manager for Immediate Payments V3.2.0

Content

• Accessing the latest version of the release notes
• Prior to installation
• Product documentation
• Support
• Feature updates
• Known issues

Accessing the latest version of the release notes

Always use the latest version of this release notes file, which is available at:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27051175

Prior to installation


Accessing the online product documentation
For information about any tasks you must complete before you install the product, refer to the IBM Financial Transaction Manager documentation.

System requirements
Check the IBM Financial Transaction Manager system requirements to ensure that your installation platform is supported for the product edition that you plan to install. For information about the system requirements for all of the different versions of the product, see the IBM Financial Transaction Manager system requirements website..

Downloading the product:
If you are downloading IBM Financial Transaction Manager from Passport Advantage, see the Downloading IBM Financial Transaction Manager for Immediate Payments.

Product documentation
The online product documentation can be found in the IBM Knowledge Center. See IBM Financial Transaction Manager documentation.

Support


Defects:
This release notes file might contain references to defect numbers. These numbers refer to internal IBM problem numbers; you might find these numbers useful when discussing problems with your IBM service representative.

Technotes:
For current information about available fixes, see the IBM support web page. To find information, click Download, then Fixes, updates and drivers, then enter the product name. This web page provides links to the latest available maintenance for the in-service IBM Financial Transaction Manager family of products.

Feature updates
To learn more about the new features in IBM Financial Transaction Manager for Immediate Payments, see the following section in the FTM Knowledge Center: What's new in Version 3.2.0

Known issues
This section outlines the known issues and their workarounds (if any).

Issue 1

Users Affected : Customers using the TCH CSM.

Summary:
Incoming payments are remaining in state "in Process" if final confirmation (pacs.002) from TCH expires.

Details:
Payment transactions might remain in pending states without any alert raised to the OAC operator if not all related messages were received
. This can happen due to message expiration or other networking failures.

Resolution :
Periodically check for transactions older than e.g. 5 minutes but not completed or failed.

Issue: 2

Users Affected : All users of TCH

Summary:
Failure to send MQ Request on CSM Request Channel using IIB 10

Details:
BIP2329E is generated by IIB 10 when sending requests to the TCH Connector.

Resolution :
A Case is open with IIB support.
Customers can work around the issue by editing the CSM Request and Response channels to specify the name of Integration Nodes local Queue Manager.



Issue: 3

Users Affected : All users of SCT Inst

Summary:
Missing Error Code in Error Record relating to CSM Payment Cancellation due to Timeout

Details:
After processing a pacs.002 (cancellation by CSM due to timeout), there is a record in the ERROR table for this CSM cancellation, but the error CODE is missing. 

Resolution :
None. Will be fixed in a future release.



Issue: 4

Users Affected : All users of FTM on IIB 10.0.0.11 toolkit

Summary:
Bar build fails with java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in the details.

Resolution :
IIB APAR 23841 included in 10.0.0.12

Other workarounds include
Building Bar files in IIB 9 or IIB 10 up to and including 10.0.0.10
Building Bar files using mqsipackagebar on the command line.



Issue 5:

Users Affected : All users of FTM on IIB 10.0.0.12 toolkit

Summary :
Bar build fails with java.lang.IllegalStateException in the details.

Resolution :
Request fixes for IIB APAR IT24755 from IBM support.

Other workarounds include
Building Bar files in IIB 9 or IIB 10 up to and including 10.0.0.10
Building Bar files using mqsipackagebar on the command line.