TEMENOS T24
Report Control
User Guide
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Report Control
Table of Contents
Overview.................................................................................................................................................. 3
Setup ....................................................................................................................................................... 4
Parameter Files.................................................................................................................................... 4
Report names ................................................................................................................................... 4
Printing to physical Printers .............................................................................................................. 5
Printing to system disk ..................................................................................................................... 6
Printing to files .................................................................................................................................. 7
Special forms/printer environment ................................................................................................... 8
Special print attributes ...................................................................................................................... 8
Banner Page Addressing ................................................................................................................... 10
Deal / Transaction Processing .............................................................................................................. 12
Report and P-function routing ........................................................................................................ 12
Monitoring reports produced .......................................................................................................... 12
Viewing/reprinting reports............................................................................................................... 12
Cancelling spool request ................................................................................................................ 13
Restricting viewing of reports ......................................................................................................... 13
Holding delivery advices/statements .............................................................................................. 13
Printing held advices/statements ................................................................................................... 14
Close of Business Services ................................................................................................................... 14
Users to receive batch reports ....................................................................................................... 14
Deferring all Close of Business (Batch) output .............................................................................. 15
Deferring output from individual batch processes .......................................................................... 15
Spooling Close of Business output manually ................................................................................. 15
Reports listing output to be received .............................................................................................. 16
Report Purging ................................................................................................................................... 16
Defining report retention period...................................................................................................... 16
Purging reports ............................................................................................................................... 16
Interface to Microfiche System .......................................................................................................... 17
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Overview
The “Report Control System” provides the following facilities to T24:
Routing of User prints.
A user may request that reports or prints, produced either online or during the Close of
Business process, are routed to a specific printer. This is useful where the user is located in a
different building than the computer room, or simply on a different floor.
Banner pages for easy distribution
To ensure that a printout is delivered correctly a banner page can be added that includes the
name and location of the user who requested the printout.
Storage of Reports
Reports and printouts are stored on the UNIX computer hard disk, for periods set by the user,
and can be reprinted in case of printer problems. Additionally, the reports can be reviewed on
screen prior to, or instead of, printing them.
Close of Business reports can be printed as the system runs the Close of Business, or
alternatively can be held on disk until required. The reports can then be printed in their entirety
or only the requested reports.
Held Mail
Customer Advices and Statements from the Delivery system can be held at a Customer or
Account level and spooled at a later date.
Microfiche
T24 has a built-in interface for the storage of reports on microfiche.
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Setup
Parameter Files
Report names
The REPORT.CONTROL file is the main control file in the “Report Control System”. It contains a
record for each report that can be produced by T24 and stores various details related to the report e.g.
description, form name (printer environment defined on DE.FORM.TYPE), and whether it is to be
microfiche, etc.
The records on this file are automatically created by the various T24 report applications.
Report Control Maintenance File
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Printing to physical Printers
The file PRINTER.ID defines the valid printers available to T24. The key to the file is a logical printer
name, which can either be the same as the printer or some other name that the System Administrator
chooses. The physical printer name is specified in field PRIME.PRINTER.ID.
Printer Maintenance File
In the above example, the T24 printer name LASER refers to the physical printer PR0.
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A record in PRINTER.ID called SYSTEM must exist and it should refer to the default line printer to
be used when no specific routing of reports is to be done.
Printing to system disk
The HOLD entry is a special printer name that does not refer to any physical printers. This can be
used as a destination when no reports need to be physically printed. Instead the report is disk and can
be viewed on screen.
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Printing to files
Instead of sending output to a particular printer, T24 can now execute a command specified on the
PRINTER.ID record in the field COMMAND. Typically this would be used to send the report to a file
instead of to a printer.
Printer Maintenance File: print to a file
It is also possible to copy a report to another area such as ‘SAVED’ which is a subdirectory of
‘FOREX.ARCHIVES’, a command could be entered to copy the specified report from &HOLD& to
FOREX.ARCHIVES/SAVED.
Since the key to &HOLD& will be different for each report generated, the key cannot be specified
directly in the command, so an element which can be evaluated to generate the required key can be
specified.
This should be defined in the format &filename>field&).
In this example the key to the &HOLD& record to be copied is the @ID of the file HOLD.CONTROL,
so this should be specified as &HOLD.CONTROL>@ID& giving a command from Unix to be defined
as:
SH -c “cp ../bnk.data/eb/’&HOLD&’/&HOLD.CONTROL>@ID& FOREX.ARCHIVES/SAVED”
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Special forms/printer environment
The file DE.FORM.TYPE defines the printer environment (page length, width, top margin etc.) to be
used for the report. It can also store spooler options such as a special form name to control the
queuing of reports that require special stationery to be loaded in the printer. See below for an example
of a form defined for delivery advices.
DE.FORM.TYPE defines printer environment
The example defines a printer set-up of 80 columns and 66 lines per page and a special form ADVICE
(contents of field OPTIONS set to FORM ADVICE).
Any REPORT.CONTROL records that use this form will be spooled with a form name of ADVICE .
Special print attributes
The file PRINTER.ATTRIBUTES is used to define any special printer attributes e.g. compressed
font, Landscape, Portrait modes etc. that are required for certain reports.
The records in this file contain the ASCII <escape> sequences for setting and resetting the desired
attribute.
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E.g. To define a report to be printed in landscape mode on a KYOCERA laser printer, follow the steps
below:
1. Set the PRINTER.TYPE field on the PRINTER.ID record for the laser printer to KYOCERA. This
field allows similar printers that support the same <escape> sequences to be grouped together.
2. Create the record KYOCERA.LANDSCAPE (‘printer.type’.attribute) on the
PRINTER.ATTRIBUTES file, defining the initialisation and reset <escape> sequences for
landscape printing. The <escape> sequences can be obtained from the Programming manual for
the printer.
3. Set the RPT.ATTRIBUTE field to LANDSCAPE on the DE.FORM.TYPE record used for the
report (see REPORT.CONTROL record to obtain form name).
Printer Attributes Maintenance File
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Banner Page Addressing
The details that appear on the banner page of each report are specified in the USER and
DEPT.ACCT.OFFICER files.
The department area (field AREA of the DEPT.ACCT.OFFICER record) will be printed at the top of
the banner page. The next three lines of the banner page will contain the address specified in field
USER.ADDR of the USER record. If no address is specified then the delivery point (field
DELIVERY.POINT of the DEPT.ACCT.OFFICER) is used.
The T24 banner page can be suppressed by specifying “NHEAD” or “NOHEAD” in field OPTIONS of
the DE.FORM.TYPE record for the report.
The format of the block letters that appear on the banner page can be changed using the application
BLOCK.LETTERS. The key to this file is the ASCII number for the character to be defined.
Create Report Banner Page
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The banner page contains information on the user, printer and area printed from. In the example
below, the following information is provided:
The Department:
DEPARTMENT ONE is from the USER record
The User:
SDONEY is from the USER record
The Area:
USER GUIDE DEPARTMENT
4TH FLOOR
MAIN BUILDING is from the USER record
The Report name:
P FUNCTION is the id of REPORT.CONTROL
The spool details:
Description: P-FUNCTION SCREEN OUTPUT
from REPORT.CONTROL description
As at: 15-04-1996 13:16 Date/Time print requested
Bank date: 31-01-1994 Date of system
Printed on: 15-04-1996 13:16 Date/Time printed
Form: SYSTEM DE.FORM.TYPE record used
Printer: PRINT1 - PR1 PRINTER.ID key and Unix printer name
Hold Id: 103334780200 - dev.run - d05030
Three items; id of HOLD.CONTROL -
uv.account (area) - UNIX user id
Attributes: STD BOLD Settings in field RPT.ATTRIBUTES of the
DE.FORM.TYPE record
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Deal / Transaction Processing
Report and P-function routing
Report and P-function (screen print) output produced online can be routed to specific printers for a
T24 User by specifying the printer names (defined on PRINTER.ID) in fields PRINTER.FOR.RPTS
and PRINTER.FOR.P.FUNC on the USER record.
The online Printer destination is determined as follows:
Firstly, if the DE.FORM.TYPE used in the REPORT.CONTROL record for the report has a specific
printer specified in field PRINTER.ID then this is used.
Secondly, if no printer is specified in the relevant DE.FORM.TYPE then the printer specified in the
USER record (field PRINTER.FOR.RPTS) is used.
Finally, if this is not specified the SYSTEM printer (defined on PRINTER.ID file) is used as a default.
Monitoring reports produced
A record of all the reports produced by the system is held in the HOLD.CONTROL file. This has an
entry for each report saved to disk and stores various details related to the report e.g. the name of
user who created the report, the date/time produced, whether it is a Close of Business report etc.
It is purged according to the setting in the SPF and REPORT.CONTROL records.
Viewing/reprinting reports
Reports can be viewed and reprinted online via the application HOLD.CONTROL.
The ‘List’ function is used to list the contents of the file and the items to be viewed/reprinted are
selected using the ‘V’erify function.
The entire report can be reprinted or just specified pages.
Reports can be displayed on 80 or 132 column terminals.
See HELPTEXT for more details of the view function, and the Navigation chapter of the User Guide on
viewing reports with the Graphical User Interface (GUI).
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Cancelling spool request
Print requests that have been submitted to the spool queue and which are waiting to be printed can be
cancelled by using application SPOOL.CANCEL. This lists the current spool entries and prompts for
the entry number of the item you wish to cancel.
Restricting viewing of reports
In addition to any Security Management System (SMS) controls applied to the HOLD.CONTROL
application, the viewing and reprinting of reports can be restricted further to only those reports
(specified in field RPT.TO.RECEIVE of USER record) which are received from the Close of Business
process by setting the RESTRICT.RPT.VIEW field to ‘Y’ in the SYSTEM record on the SPF file.
Holding delivery advices/statements
The Delivery system advices (confirmations etc.) and statements can be held in the system and
spooled at a later date. This is often used to suppress printing until the customer next visits the bank
or where mailing is batched.
To specify that output from the delivery system should be held, the field HOLD.OUTPUT in the
DE.ADDRESS record for the customer should be set to ‘’Y’.
This will hold any output, which is destined for this address.
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Printing held advices/statements
There is an application called PRINT.CUST.OUTPUT, which enables the user to select any held
mail for a client and to print it. The selection can be by any field on the HOLD.CONTROL file so
groups of output can be printed at the same time.
A brief example below shows the application in use.
Print.Cust.Output Screen
Close of Business Services
Users to receive batch reports
Reports produced by the Close of Business (Batch) run can be addressed to certain users by
specifying the report names and number of copies requested in fields RPT.TO.RECEIVE and
RPT.COPIES of the USER records.
When the COB output is spooled the USER file is scanned for users who have requested reports and
their address details are extracted and printed on the banner page of each report requested.
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Deferring all Close of Business (Batch) output
The output produced by an EOD (Batch) run, can be held by setting the HOLD.BATCH.OUTPUT field
on the SYSTEM record in the SPF file to ‘Y’.
When the COB batch is being run all the output will be written to the “&HOLD&” file on disk and not
sent for spooling.
Note:
When a process/job in the batch is rerun for any reason then the previous job (log) file for the process
will be spooled out to the printer.
Deferring output from individual batch processes
When the output from the COB (Batch) run is not being held but being spooled immediately, the output
from the individual batch processes/jobs can be held by specifying a destination printer of “HOLD” in
fields DEFAULT.PRINTER and/or PRINTER.NAME of the BATCH record for the process.
When the COB is being run, the output from the batch processes/jobs with a destination printer of
“HOLD” will not be printed.
Spooling Close of Business output manually
The output from a previous batch run can be spooled by using the application
SPOOL.BATCH.OUTPUT in ‘V’erify mode.
This maintains a history of 5 batch run start date and times, the most recent one is held in record 1.
The output will be spooled to a single printer (defined in field DEST.PRINTER of the
SPOOL.BATCH.OUTPUT record) in a sorted order (by department/user/report name) with a
covering dispatch list.
The banner on the reports will be addressed to those users defined in the USER file who have
requested to receive the COB output. If any reports are found to have no destination user then they
are addressed to the current user requesting the re-spool.
Unrequested reports can be suppressed (i.e. not spooled) by setting field SPOOL.ALL.OUTPUT of the
SPOOL.BATCH.OUTPUT record to ‘N’.
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Note:
The actual number of batch reports held on disk will depend on the report purge cycle.
Reports listing output to be received
Two online reports are provided which list the batch output to be received.
These applications can be run online or as part of the batch.
Two online reports can be run online or as part of batch
Report Purging
Defining report retention period
The number of working days for which the report output is held on disk (&HOLD&) is specified in field
REPORT.RETENTION on the SYSTEM record in the SPF file.
When the reports have been in the HOLD.CONTROL file for more than this period they are deleted.
The retention period for reports that need to be retained for a time other than the system wide
retention period specified in the SPF file, should be specified in field REPORT.RETENTION of the
individual REPORT.CONTROL records.
Purging reports
Purging of reports is carried out by the COB (Batch) process PURGE.HOLD.RPTS which is run in the
‘Start of Day’ batch stage. This batch process is run daily and deletes any reports that have been in
the HOLD.CONTROL file for more than the retention period specified in the SPF and
REPORT.CONTROL files.
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Interface to Microfiche System
Reports that are to be microfiched should be specified in the REPORT.CONTROL file. The field
MICROFICHE.OUTPUT on the REPORT.CONTROL record should be set to ‘Y’.
If the microfiche system has been enabled (see SYSTEM record on SPF), then every time the reports
are produced they are copied to the microfiche files. These files are then used to create output media
(normally tapes) that can be sent to the microfiche producers.
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