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Close of Business (COB) handles the T24 Batch B.DUPLICATE.TYPE
Processing.
control
Close of Business is used for processing events, calculating and
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(Forex, Funds Transfer, etc.) Five steps, kve minutes,

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REPORTING Main system reports (Trial Balance,
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General Ledgers, etc.)
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month end events, cash flow decision
maintenance, etc.)

ON LINE Any non critical reports and

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The Close of Business runs various processes based on the order
above, in order of stages and within the stage based on the
sequence number.
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Each batch stage consists of a number of processes with the same
or different sequence number, which corresponds directly to How to activate EB.DUPLICATE.TYPE
records in the BATCH kle, and each process consists of a number of control.

jobs for which routines are dekned in the PGM.FILE as type ‘B’.
Each batch process deknes the stage and sequence at which it has
to be run, the jobs to be run and the frequency in which it has to be
run.
At no point, the stage and the sequence of the batch process will be
violated thus ensuring data integrity and proper processing of jobs
if they are dependent on an earlier job.

Pre-requisites

In order to get the most out of this manual, it is essential that you
are familiar with the standard procedures regarding navigating your
way around the system. This includes items such as program access RFID Wristband
via menus, data entry and editing, mandatory and multi‐level kelds,
committing details, and so forth. All of these are described in detail
in the Navigation manual. RFID Wristband
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Multiple session Close of Business
now!
T24 Close of Business processes have been designed to run as
multi threaded to reduce the time taken and to maximise the
usage of system resources. Multiple agents can be used to run the Shop
Close of Business and they share the job load.

However, this will not affect the sequence or the verikcation of

the Close of Business. The agents complement each other within
the same stage and sequence and do not violate the agents, thus
ensuring data integrity.

The number of agents is dekned in the TSA.WORKLOAD Our Visitors

PROFILE record, which is in turn attached to the TSA.SERVICE
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COB.

Close of Business – Set up

A Service Manager (TSM) and Service Agents (COB) control the

COB process. Create TSA.WORKLOAD.PROFILE and TSA.SERVICE
records for each of these as described below:

Step 1 – TSA.WORKLOAD.PROFILE

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The Manager only requires one agent (above) whereas 2 to 3

agents for the COB are sufkcient (below)

Step 2 – TSA.PARAMETER

There is only one record – SYSTEM. This application tells the

Service Manager at which levels (in seconds) to review and restart
the Agents.

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Step 3 – Create a COB User

This is the user name that will be associated with all

records processed during the Close of Business.

The process to create a user is described in the System

Administrator manual and is therefore not repeated here.

Step 4 –

(Create COMMA Version to facilitate starting and stopping Agents

without the need to log in as a second user)

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Note: The server name is not a mandatory keld. The tSM obtains
the server name it should run, by executing the hostname
command. It then tries to match that with the value entered in the
keld SERVER.NAME in TSA.SERVICE of the agent. If it does not
match then it could not start the agents. If there is no value in the
keld SERVER.NAME, the tSM uses the value captured by it
(through the ‘hostname’ command). So there is no need for the
SERVER.NAME keld in TSA.SERVICE. This applies both to local
host as well as server.

Note: The server name is not a mandatory keld. The tSM obtains
the server name it should run, by executing the hostname
command. It then tries to match that with the value entered in the
keld SERVER.NAME in TSA.SERVICE of the agent. If it does not
match then it could not start the agents. If there is no value in the
keld SERVER.NAME, the tSM uses the value captured by it
(through the ‘hostname’ command). So there is no need for the
SERVER.NAME keld in TSA.SERVICE. This applies both to local
host as well as server.

To invoke Close of Business

As Agents may become stuck, we recommend that you krst STOP

all Agents, and then clear the table F.TSA.STATUS at the j prompt
as follows:

–> CLEAR.FILE F.TSA.STATUS

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Also clear the EB.EOD.ERROR kle once the errors occurred during
the Close of Business have been kxed, by entering
F.EB.EOD.ERROR at the j-prompts as follows:

–> CLEAR.FILE F.EB.EOD.ERROR

Start TSA.SERVICE for both TSM and COB records

Initiate Close of Business using tSM and

tSA
Step 1 – Start the Service Manager
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You have now started the Service Manager.

The Manager continues to advise to manually start the

Agents:

Step 2 – Proceed to start the Agents

Open a new Reflection session and enter tSA 2 –DEBUG and

the command prompt:

Agent 2 has been started and the COB is underway, now start
Agent 3:

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Example of processing screens (with COMO as Agents were

started with –DEBUG statement)

Step 3

When the COB is completed, the Service Manager

automatically stops the Agents – this is the display:

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Step 4

Return to the TSA.SERVICE, application and STOP the TSM record.

You will note that the status of COB is already set to STOP.

Start COB with Users Signed On

Non Stop Processing and Close of Business complement each

other. Close of Business disallow input and processing of records
in all applications, other than those supported by Non Stop
service.

The applications that are available in Non Stop (NS) service will
be available without any restrictions and will be using the next
working date for processing thus ensuring the concurrent
transactions are not picked up for processing by the Close of
Business which is running in parallel.

To support this, Close of Business distinguishes the dates by two

different records per company in the DATES application. Close of
Business at the beginning, cycles the dates record and restores the
old dates record with the key as CO.CODE-COB record in DATES
and on line processing happens with the cycled record in the
DATES application.

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Even though there is no need for typical T24forMCB sites to make

use of the Non Stop service, the information above is relevant as TT,
FT and DC transactions may be captured while the Close of
Business is being processed.

There is also no longer the need to close tills and for users to
be logged out of the system prior to invoking the Close of
Business.

Any transactions not permitted during the Close of Business

provide a message to the user stating that it is invalid during
Close of Business.

List Files

Every job during the Close of Business uses a LIST kle for storing
and sharing records for processing between different agents. The
LIST kle is dynamically determined based on the session number
doing the SELECT processing of a multi threaded job. The other
agents use the allotted list for sharing their load of the job. The
LIST kle is empty at the end of the job thus making it available for a
different job.

COMO

Since the introduction of multi threaded architecture, the COMO

is written with the session number to distinguish processing
between different threads.

The COMO is written with the key as TSA_<agent no>_datetime.

It is recommended that all COB COMOs be retained securely for

at least six weeks.

If there is an occasion to restore and rerun, then the COMOs

should be printed or copied to a secure medium before the restore
takes place.

Example of the COMO with an error:

Monitoring COB

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Three enquiries are available that assist the monitoring the

progress of Close of Business and the records processed with the
time taken. They can be accessed via the Temenos Enterprise
Console.

COB.PROGRESS – A listing of active companies and an

indication (progress bar) of their time to completion.

JOB.PROGRESS – This enquiry list all active and completed jobs by

descending start times (i.e. current on top). It shows the start
time, end time, elapsed time, contracts processed, total contracts
to process, throughput (contracts/minute) and individual server
rate. The latter is the number of contracts processed in one
minute by a server process – this will be compared historically to
see if the job is slowing down as time passes.

JOB.HISTORY – Drilling down from the JOB.PROGRESS, the user

can see a graph of the elapsed time of the last ten runs of the job
and the individual server rate. If the latter kgure rises over time; it
indicates a problem, which could be badly sized kles.

Batch Output

All reports, COMOs, etc. produced by the batch system are

output using the T24 Report Control system. This enables the
operator to determine the destination printer, user addressing,
number of copies, etc.

The following applications are used in this process:

Application Description

SPOOL.BATCH.OUTPUT Prints or reprints

all output for a
specikc batch run.

SPF Specikes that no

printing should take
place until all
processes have
completed.

HOLD.CONTROL Stores detail of all output

produced by the batch
run.

PRINTER.ID Specikes the printers

available to the system.

USER Dekning the reports and

individual should receive.

In order to access the reports generated during the Close

of Business, follow these steps:

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Access

Enter ENQ REPORT.LIST in the Command

Line. Procedure

1. Enter ENQ LIST in the Command Line.

2. Enter the search criteria and click on

the Find butto

3.View the resulting enquiry on screen and manipulate as

described in the Navigation manual.
4. Close the report.

Screen

A screen like the one shown below displays, allowing you to klter
the records for on screen enquiry or report.

Selection criteria may include part of a report name, or not

entering any selection criteria, the system displays all reports
generated and held as per the number of days dekned in the SPF
record.

When the enquiry displays, it will appear like the screen

shown below.

Select the report by clicking on the View Report ID against

the record displayed in the report list.

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Error Handling

As described in the introduction, a process can consist of any

number of jobs, which in turn can execute a number of programs
or operating system commands. If an error occurs, the system
may return immediately to the monitor screen and display the
process and the job in error or in the case of less sever errors,
update the record for the current batch run and the current
company on the EB.EOD.ERROR kle and continues.

The details of these errors can be found in examining the records

on the EB.EOD.ERROR kle and on the EB.EOD.ERROR.DETAIL kle.

The Close of Business processes are wrapped around jBASE

transaction management. Hence, in case of any crashes during
Close of Business, the concerned transaction is rolled back and the
Close of Business continues. This ensures that Close of Business
can continue after an error and partial updates are rolled back to
keep the database in sync.

Jobs can abort for a variety of reasons, both system and

application related. Identify the aborted job.

Any system related crashes are sensed by the Temenos Service

Manager (TSM) and the dead agent is started again. The TSM,
if there is no activity in an agent for a period of time as
dekned in
the DEATH.WATCH keld of TSA.SERVICE, it restarts the agent thus
ensuring that the Close of Business crashes are monitored and
restarted by the TSM.

Any application related crashes write into EB.EOD.ERROR the

information on the job name, the record and the text of the
crash.

The underlying record from the .LIST kle is removed and the
updates done until the particular transaction is rolled back.
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To continue the batch, use the up arrow key at the j-prompt for
the last command (e.g. tSA 2 –DEBUG) and depress the return
key.

There will be some critical jobs that may crash and abort the Close
of Business due to business reasons, as further continuance of the
Close of Business is not advocated. These jobs are dekned as
.CRITICAL in the ADDITIONAL.INFO keld of PGM.FILE.
Error Message Problem
BATCH NOT COMPLETED You cannot return to on line
YET mode until all batch
processes have been
completed successfully.

EOD HAS BEEN INITIATED COB has already been set.

ILLEGAL FREQ FORMAT Invalid frequency code

speciked in process.

ILLEGAL ORDER The jobs in the process have

been speciked in an
execution order that is illegal
i.e. job 1 depends on the
successful completion of job
2

INITIALISES ERROR Job failed during

initialization – no need to
restore the database to
re run.

INVALID ENTRY, TRY AGAIN Unknown command at

current action level.

JOB ERROR Job terminated with an error

– see process output.

LINE NO. OUT OF RANGE Row selection number

does not have an
associated process.

NO ENTRY IN PGM.FILE Job not dekned in

PGM.FILE.

OPTION INVALID IN ON Option from menu cannot

LINE be executed until the Close
of Business has been
initiated.

PROCESS JOB STATUS IS You cannot start this process

Xxxxx when another has failed.
Re- run the job in error krst.

PROCESS NAME NOT Process name entered is not

RECOGNISED on the BATCH kle.

PROCESS NOT IN HOLD OR Cannot select process to be

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ERROR restarted when the current

status is not HOLD
or ERROR.

PROCESS NOT IN RUN Cannot select a process to

STATE be halted when the
current status is not
RUNNING.

PROCESS NOT PRESENT Unknown process name

entered from action
line.

REC MISSING Fatal error during process

execution – see process
output for more details.

RESTORE DB Database needs to be

restored to re run this
job

UNKNOWN JOB IN Job not dekned in

PGM.FILE PGM.FILE.
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