Software facilitates payment message processing.

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WebSphere® Business Integration for Financial Networks for z/OS®, v1.2 provides single-window infrastructure to support integration of financial messaging applications used by financial institutions and corporations. It offers message transformation, routing, authentication, validation, and storage, as well as audit recording and monitoring, processing of SWIFTNet FIN and InterAct messages, and transfer and compression of SWIFTNet FileAct files.



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IBM WebSphere Business Integration for Financial Networks for z/OS, V1.2 now offers more performance, less complexity, and better control



At a glance
Network integration infrastructure for high-volume, accurate payment message processing

Immediate and future network connectivity and financial message application integration requirements are met with:
Open architecture platform
Flexibility
Message transformation, routing, authentication, and validation
Message warehousing
Event logging
Support for SWIFTNet FIN, InterAct, and FileAct
Investment protection, MERVA support

To support financial institutions in their efforts to enlarge their SIPN-based financial message processing and associated financial applications, WebSphere Business Integration for Financial Networks for z/OS, V1.2 addresses customer recommendations and requirements. The new release contains a large variety of enhancements and new features. The major enhancements relate to:
Improved performance
Enhanced message warehousing, monitoring, and audit data recording
Improved customization, installation, and configuration changes

For ordering, contact:
Your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: YE001).

Overview
To help financial institutions remain competitive in the ever-changing world of finance, IBM delivers WebSphere® Business Integration for Financial Networks for z/OS®, V1.2. This is the IBM on demand financial messaging solution for the finance industry. It provides a single-window infrastructure to support integration of financial messaging applications used by financial institutions and corporations.

Features that deliver this integration include: message transformation, message routing, message authentication and validation, audit recording, monitoring, message storage in a message warehouse, processing of SWIFTNet FIN and InterAct messages, and transfer and compression of SWIFTNet FileAct files.

To help ensure a robust, reliable, and high-volume message transfer environment, WebSphere Business Integration for Financial Networks is based on industry-proven IBM middleware products, such as DB2 Universal Database®, WebSphere MQ, and WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker.

WebSphere Business Integration for Financial Networks for z/OS, V1.2 delivers the following enhancements.

WebSphere Business Integration for Financial Networks Base
Performance improvements
Enhanced message warehouse, monitoring, and audit data recording functionality
Message counting using WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker V5.0
Customization, installation, and configuration change improvements
Selective configuration provider node
Immediate activation of configuration changes

WebSphere Business Integration for Financial Networks, Extension for SWIFTNet, Support for SWIFTNet InterAct, and Support for SWIFTNet FileAct

SWIFTAlliance Gateway (SAG) event template management
Improved OAMS administration program
Message counting using WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker V5.0
Trusted FIN application
FileAct compression and decompression
Direct SAG access
FileAct via SAG running on Windows(TM)
FileAct via SAG running on Solaris
InterAct Store and Forward (SnF) session control

Planned availability date
April 29, 2005

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