Release Notes
Software AG is pleased to announce the release of webMethods FIX Module 7.2 FCS. Built upon the award-winning webMethods ESB platform, webMethods FIX Module enables financial institutions to exchange messages securely through the use of the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) message standard. webMethods FIX Module supports the latest FIX message formats, and provides the framework to parse and convert FIX documents for easy mapping and integration with your enterprise’s back-end system, providing true straight-through processing of FIX messages.
webMethods FIX Module 7.2 includes the following enhancements:
webMethods FIX Module is cluster-aware, providing a highly available and scalable environment to handle large volumes of FIX messages. With clustering, any node in the cluster can connect to the Appia engine, and the client sending FIX messages can connect to any of the nodes in the cluster.
webMethods FIX Module enables administrators to configure the FIX Module, including the Appia engine’s host, port, and session details using the My webMethods Web user interface.
webMethods FIX Module provides support to connect to the latest versions of the Appia engine including Appia 6.1 and Appia 5.2.
webMethods FIX Module supports the latest FIX message standards including versions 5.0, 5.0SP1, and 5.0SP2. FIX session protocol version FIXT 1.1 is also supported.
webMethods FIX Module now enables complete monitoring of the delivery of FIX messages. The delivery status of an outbound FIX message during the various transition states is captured and can be viewed through the Transaction Details screen in Trading Networks.
webMethods FIX Module now uses the logging mechanism of Integration Server to capture messages and write them to the Audit, Error, or Server logs. You can choose the level and type of information you need to see (for example: debug, info, error), and enable or disable logging depending upon your operational needs.
webMethods FIX Module provides reliable message delivery when sending messages. FIX Module automatically detects if the connection to the FIX engine is lost and attempts to reestablish the connection until it is restored or the retry limit is met. If there are any unsent messages, FIX Module adds them to the queue and resends them as soon as the connection is reestablished.
webMethods FIX Module also guarantees the order of messages by sending the messages to the Appia engine in the order in which they were received or stored.
For the most up to date information about the software and operating systems that the module supports, see webMethods eStandards Modules System Requirements, available from the webMethods area of the Software AG Documentation Web site.
For important updates and a list of enhancements and issues that have been addressed in this release, see the product’s readme file. You can access the readme, as well as all product documentation, from the webMethods area on the Software AG Documentation Web site.
webMethods is pleased to introduce Version 6.5 of webMethods FIX Module. webMethods FIX Module enables financial institutions to exchange messages securely through the use of the FIX financial message standard. By enabling FIX implementations to easily make use of the robust and comprehensive feature sets of webMethods Fabric, including business process modeling, human workflow elements, and business activity monitoring, webMethods FIX Module enables financial institutions to achieve true end-to-end Straight-Through Processing (STP) of FIX messages.
webMethods FIX Module 6.5 includes the following enhancements:
webMethods FIX Module 6.5 now supports Javelin Appia FIX engine versions 3.2 and 4.0.
webMethods FIX Module supports FIX message versions 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2.
webMethods is pleased to introduce a new release of webMethods FIX Module, Version 6.1. Built on top of webMethods Integration Platform, webMethods FIX Module enables financial institutions to exchange messages securely through the use of the FIX financial message standard. By enabling FIX implementations to easily make use of the robust and comprehensive feature sets of webMethods Integration Platform, including business process modeling, human workflow elements, and business activity monitoring, webMethods FIX Module enables financial institutions to achieve true end-to-end Straight-Through Processing (STP) of FIX messages.
webMethods FIX Module 6.1 is an important release that includes two significant changes and several minor fixes.
Users who do not need the functionality offered by Trading Networks, such as the ability to handle different FIX versions for different partners and archival of messages, can use webMethods FIX Module 6.1 without Trading Networks.
The performance of webMethods FIX Module 6.1 has been optimized significantly and improved over the previous version.
webMethods FIX Module 6.1 supports Javelin Appia FIX engine versions 3.0 and 3.2.
webMethods is pleased to introduce a major release of webMethods FIX Module, Version 6.0.1. Built on top of webMethods Integration Platform Version 6.0.1, the webMethods FIX Module enables financial institutions to exchange messages securely through the use of the FIX financial message standard. By enabling FIX implementations to easily make use of the robust and comprehensive feature sets of webMethods Integration Platform, including business process modeling, human workflow elements, and monitoring, webMethods FIX Module enables financial institutions to achieve true end-to-end STP of FIX messages.
At any given time, using an HTML based GUI, an administrator can check, on a per partner basis, the Sequence numbers of the last message received by webMethods FIX Module.
webMethods FIX Module can now be configured to selectively accept messages that are only of a certain type and/or from specific partners. You set the parameters in the FIX Module configuration file to receive specific Application Messages from specific partners.
webMethods FIX Module comes with pre-built samples to help you learn quickly how to use the product.
webMethods FIX Module is built on the proven webMethods eStandards Framework, which allows you to utilize its strengths to build a robust FIX trading network, with the ability to rapidly add new trading partners. The Framework provides excellent transaction, exception, and error logging and query capabilities. You also can maintain transaction logging and audit trails in a relational database to ensure the integrity of all trading partner transactions. Automatic archival of transaction messages, as well as digital signature support, ensure non-repudiation of origin and content.
This document applies to webMethods FIX Module 7.2 and to all subsequent releases.
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