| Citibank Singapore
Consolidated Bank Statements with Papyrus Designer
and DocEXEC
The Highlights:
>> Consolidates
all bank account types.
>> Imbed
PC marketing messages from MS-Word.
>> Bar- and
Pie-Charts from the data input.
>> Print
check images on request from TIFF.
>> Chinese
and English statements.
>> Print
to IPDS and Xerox printers.
>> Mainframe
and Server solution.
>> CD-ROM
Archiving of statement.
The Requirements:
There is one bank that does everything to excel at
customer service: CITIBANK.
Their Singapore operation needed to develop a consolidated
customer bank statement in English, Chinese and other
languages with integrated scanned-check-image printing.
The requirement was to build the statement with as
little change to existing data as possible, while fulfilling
the document layout which the marketing department had
provided.
One challenge was the generation of about 200 different
marketing messages from MS-Word, which were to be embedded
into the consolidated statement based on commands and
conditions in the data.
Scanned check images needed also to be included into
the document. The resource intensive task of converting
the TIFF format supplied by the UNISYS DP500 system
to compressed IOCA was a challenging task to solve for
ISIS.
The Solution:
After evaluating and testing a number of other alternatives,
team of printing experts set out under the coordination
of CITIBANK Singapore, to build one of the most powerful
bank statement applications today. Siemens, Unisys and
ISIS were the vendors chosen to build the solution.
The bank statement is developed using the ISIS Papyrus
Designer, while the marketing department produces marketing
messages using MS-Word and exports them as DOCDEF to
the MVS mainframe using a Papyrus utility program. The
UNISYS scanning station produces the scanned images
and reads them with OCR. The image data are sent to
the mainframe and the check image files are stored to
the Papyrus Server daily in TIFF format.
For each production run the customer written COBOL
program extracts account records from the databases
and puts them into a data file using a simple sort header.
The check data records (no images) are also merged into
the file.
The data file is submitted to JES2 for printing and
Papyrus Host sends the data, the relevant AFP resources
and Papyrus files to the Papyrus Server OS/2 running
DocEXEC. Here the TIFF format check images are retrieved
and converted to IOCA compressed images with a DocEXEC
plug-in module and formatted into the customer statement.
The AFP document file is printed to SNI/OCE 2090 using
PSF/2. The AFP document is fully formatted and completely
indexed for archiving. The host does neither perform
any CPU intensive formatting nor image conversion. The
whole process is controlled by MVS job control using
the Papyrus Host as controller for the LAN processes,
still providing the printer operation local control
over the printer handling.
Printouts are now sent automatically to 15 further
countries in Asia and Europe with distributed printing
using Papyrus Server. A centralized archive is planned
for access to the stored and fully indexed
AFPDS documents. |
