3.5 Process Message Media Detail

This topic provides the systematic instructions to maintain message media.

FCIS facilitates maintenance of different media through which advices and messages can be generated. At your bank, you can only receive or route messages through a media that you have maintained in this screen. These specifications can be made only at the main branch and will be applicable to all the branches of your bank.

You can maintain standard media like Mail, Telex and SWIFT and also other media like CHIPS or any other country or customer specific media from which the messages will be routed using this screen.

1. On Home screen, type UTDMEDIA in the text box, and click Next.
   The Message Media Detail screen is displayed.

   Figure 3-5 Message Media Detail

   
   

   
   Description of "Figure 3-5 Message Media Detail"

   
   
2. You can maintain the following in this screen:
   • The media types that can be used to transmit messages from and to your bank.
   • The compatible media for the media type you are maintaining.
3. On Message Media Detail screen, click New to enter the details.
   For more information on fields, refer to the field description table.

   Table 3-3 Printer Maintenance - Field Description

   Field	Description
   Media Code	Alphanumeric; 60 Characters; Mandatory Specify a unique code to identify the media. When you want to transit a message through a particular media type, you just have to specify the code assigned to the media type. The message will be routed automatically through the media.
   Media Number	Numeric; 1 Character; Mandatory Specify a unique number with which you want to represent the media.
   Description	Alphanumeric; 420 Characters; Mandatory Specify description for the specified media code. The description will help you identify the code that it represents.
   Message Suffix	Alphanumeric; 400 Characters; Optional Specify padding characters which you want to add to the end of every outgoing message, automatically. The specified padding characters will be inserted, automatically, at the end of every outgoing message in the media.
   Message Terminator	Alphanumeric; 400 characters; Optional Specify padded characters that mark the end of the incoming messages in a media. The system identifies the end of an incoming message, in a file containing several messages, when it encounters the padding characters that you have specified for a media type.
   Number of Characters	Numeric; 3 Characters; Optional Specify the number of times you want to repeat the set of specified padding characters, if you opted to suffix an outgoing message with a set of padding characters. The padding characters will be suffixed to every outgoing message in the media as many times as you specify.
   Media Priority	Numeric; 2 Characters; Mandatory Specify usage priority for each media type that you maintain. When dispatching messages to customers, the media type used for sending the message will be the one that is higher on the priority rating.
   Test Word Required	Optional Check this option if you want to insert the test word to the telex message manually before it is generated from your branch.
   Stop Processing	Optional Check this box if you want to stop the processing for the incoming and outgoing messages.
   Padding Required	Optional Check this box if you want to add the suffix to the outgoing messages.
   XML Message	Optional Check this box if XML message is required.