webMethods SWIFT FIN Module 6.0.1 July 2003 _________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the webMethods SWIFT FIN Module, your single-window solution for SWIFT messaging and SWIFT Business Solutions. For information about webMethods Integration Platform 6.0.1 enhancements, see the webMethods Integration Platform 6.0.1 Release Notes. For information about the status of previous webMethods releases, see the General Support Statement. You can download these documents from the webMethods Advantage Web site. Contents: 1.0 Getting Started 2.0 Documentation 2.1 Documentation Corrections and Additions 3.0 Known Problems and Limitations 4.0 Usage Notes 5.0 Globalization 5.1 Database Configuration 6.0 Deprecated Components 7.0 Fixes and Enhancements 8.0 Copyright Information 8.1 webMethods 8.2 Other Products 9.0 Contacting Us 1.0 Getting Started The webMethods SWIFT FIN Module Installation and User's Guide Version 6.0.1 contains detailed instructions for installing and configuring the webMethods SWIFT FIN Module. 2.0 Documentation Documentation for webMethods SWIFT FIN Module is located in the pub/doc directory where you installed webMethods SWIFT FIN Module. The following manual is provided as a PDF file: - webMethods SWIFT FIN Module Installation and User's Guide The webMethods Integration Platform Installation Guide contains important information that you must read before you install webMethods Integration Platform 6.0.1. The guide also contains instructions that you must follow to perform and complete the installation. The webMethods Integration Platform Upgrade Guide contains important information that you must read before you upgrade webMethods Integration Platform 6.0.1. The guide also contains instructions you must follow to perform and complete the upgrade. To view the documentation supplied with this version of webMethods SWIFT FIN Module, you must have installed Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 or later. You can download and install Acrobat Reader 4.0 from: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html 2.1 Documentation Corrections and Additions None 3.0 Known Problems and Limitations - webMethods CASmf package is supported on Windows 2000 and Windows NT platforms only. If you are running the package on a non-Windows platform, you will need to install webMethods WebSphere MQ Adapter 3.0 as the communication layer to SWIFT. 4.0 Usage Notes - webMethods Integration Server 6.0.1, webMethods Developer 6.0.1, and webMethods Trading Networks 6.0.1 must be installed before you can install and run webMethods SWIFT FIN Module. For information about Integration Server, Developer, or Trading Networks, see the readme files in the directory where you installed the software. - It is recommended that you install either the webMethods CASmf package (selectable as part of the webMethods SWIFT FIN Module install) or webMethods WebSphere MQ Adapter 3.0 to use as a communication layer to SWIFT. - If you will be using process models to manage the execution of SWIFT messages, you will need to install webMethods Modeler 6.0.1 and webMethods Monitor 6.0.1. - It is recommended that you install or upgrade to webMethods Monitor 6.0.1 SP1 if you will be using process models to manage the execution of SWIFT messages. If you are running webMethods Monitor 6.0.1 and do not plan to upgrade to SP1, you will need to update the CLASSPATH statement in the server.bat (or server.sh) to include the following directory: \packages\WmMonitor\code\jars 5.0 Globalization webMethods SWIFT FIN Module 6.0.1 conforms to the international standards of webMethods and includes support for operation in any country, locale, or language. SWIFT uses a custom character set, which is a subset of 7-bit ASCII (or optionally a subset of EBCDIC code page 037). This means that no field in a SWIFT document may contain accented or multibyte (non-ASCII) characters. The webMethods SWIFT FIN Module enforces this limit and will generate an error instead of sending the document to the SWIFT network. Users are cautioned to normalize their data to ASCII before mapping it to SWIFT documents. SWIFT provides support for dates and numbers using a specialized internal representation. The webMethods SWIFT FIN Module automatically converts to and from these formats. It also performs time-zone normalization correctly. SWIFT supports the use of multiple currencies through the use of ISO4217 three-letter currency identifiers. The webMethods SWIFT FIN Module does not currently validate data mapped by users to a currency type field. Therefore users should exercise caution when building FLOWs to ensure that the currency is handled properly. 5.1 Database Configuration The configuration of your Trading Networks database affects which characters can be stored in it. webMethods recommends that you use the most appropriate Unicode encoding for your database character set. For Oracle 8, this is "UTF8". For Oracle 9i, this is "AL32UTF8". For DB/2, this is code page 13844. For Microsoft SQL Server, an alternate schema must be used for Unicode support. Please consult your database vendor's documentation on how to set the character encoding of your database and environment. SWIFT documents, since they contain only a subset of ASCII, will not be affected by your choice of database encoding. However, you may use your Trading Networks for other applications that are affected, and you should consider these issues when configuring your system. 6.0 Deprecated Components None 7.0 Fixes and Enhancements in webMethods SWIFT FIN Module 6.0.1 This is a new release; therefore, this section is not applicable. 8.0 Copyright Information 8.1 webMethods webMethods Administrator, webMethods Broker, webMethods Developer, webMethods Installer, webMethods Integration Server, webMethods Mainframe, webMethods Manager, webMethods Modeler, webMethods Monitor, webMethods Trading Networks, webMethods Workflow, and the webMethods logo are trademarks of webMethods, Inc. "webMethods" is a registered trademark of webMethods, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. Copyright (c) 2003 by webMethods, Inc. All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. 8.2 Other Products SWIFT, S.W.I.F.T., Sibos, and SWIFT-derived product and service names (such as but not limited to SWIFTNet and SWIFTAlliance) and the SWIFT logo are trademarks of S.W.I.F.T. SCRL. SWIFT is the trading name of S.W.I.F.T. SCRL. All other products or company names mentioned on this site are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. 9.0 Contacting Us Authorized technical support contacts can reach webMethods Technical Services for support via: Advantage: http://advantage.webMethods.com E-mail: support@webMethods.com US Phone: 1-888-222-8215 Europe/EMEA Phone: +800-963-84-637 or +31-207783640 Asia/Pacific Phone: +612-8913-1198 or +656-389-3222 Self-service support is also available in the Advantage Knowledge Base and in Advantage Customer Forums at http://advantage.webMethods.com.