CMS Daily Batch
Files from different sub systems (like ITS, ASM etc) are fed to the CMS batch and hence those jobs are executed first and and their ouputs are fed to the CMS batch.
The ITS batch is split up into 2 sub batches as also the CMS batch that is split up into 4 sub batches (CMS1, CMS2, CMS3 and CMS4) depending upon the kind of processing that is done in each batch.
FAS processing takes place along with CMS1 and CMS3 while the ASM (Account Service Management), SSC (Security Sub System), CTA (Collection Tracking and Analysis), CDM (Credit Decision Management), MBS (Merchant Banking Sub System) and LTS (Letter Tracking Sub System) sub-system batches run only once during the nightly batch cycle at specific instances.
The batch cycle can be split up into 4 phases and different sub system jobs run in each phase as detailed below:
Phase 1 : Begin Batch (CMS Onlines are still up and normal day processing still available)
ITS1 à TRAMS à ITS2
Phase 2 : After Hours (CMS onlines are brought down, Selective file maintenance available)
ASM and SSC à CMS1 (FAS) à CMS2 à CTA, CDM and MBS
Phase 3 : Update (CMS onlines still down, no processing available)
CMS3 (FAS) and LTS
Phase 4 : Begin Online Day (CMS onlines are brought up again and normal day processing available)
CMS4
The processing done in each sub-system is briefly explained below:
ITS1 – The charge backs and retrieval requests that are entered online in CMS will be extracted and routed to TRAMS.
TRAMS – The input monetary transactions are validated and routed to the various sub-systems here. In addition to this the outgoing requests to various external interfaces like schemes are also handled here.
ITS2 – The incoming retrieval requests and charge backs from other schemes and other sources are routed to the ITS system.
ASM – The batch processing for ASM happens here. External inputs to ASM and the daily house-keeping of ASM records occur here.
CMS1 – Non-monetary and monetary updates happen in this application. In addition to this interface files to external systems like LMS and CTA get generated here.
CMS2 – Processing of Open item billing, update of frequent shopper points, Monetary transaction update, Inactive file processing, Statement file generation, card issue and reject re-entry processing happens here.
CMS3 – All the monetary and non-monetary updates that happened during the after-hours mode will be applied to the main CMS files during this period.
CMS4 – Report and statement generation happens here.
After Hours/ End of Day
During the day, when the onlines are up, all the master files are updated (addition of new accounts, file maintainence etc). In order to trigger the nightly batch cycle AROC transaction needs to be fired.
AROC transaction is the after hours processing screen used to select a processing mode for CMS master files. Three processing modes are available in this :
- Normal Processing – All CMS master files are open.
- After hours processing – All CMS master files are closed and After hours files are opened for Read only. Shadow files are opened for Updations.
- No processing – All CMS master files are closed to all processing (ARCA mode).
AROC (or ARCH) transaction (Open For After Hours A-H Processing) is fired to close all the CMS files and also open the after hours files. In after hours mode, only certain non-monetary transactions are allowed, monetary transactions are not allowed. AROC internally triggers OFED transaction that sets the End of Day for the FAS sub system (FAS and CMS go hand-in-hand hence at any given point of time, they should be running in the same mode).
Program OFU000 loads control card FWCC into file FTCC. Various FAS programs read the control cards file for execution control.
After the control card load, OFD100 is triggered. It is the first batch program in the FAS end-of-day batch process. This program generates a user input file for the VisionPLUS CMS daily run and generates a backup of the FAS log file (FBLG). This program also produces and passes a report file to OFD110 where all reports are generated. It reads AMCR, FMSC, FMLA, FMLB and FTCC control card file (that was generated by OFU000) and creates the following output files:
FBLG : Log file (Tape Backup)
ATIA : CMS authorization transactions to posting
ATUD : CMS non-monetary transactions
FTRF : FAS reports file
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