Billing and Revenue Management Pipeline Developer 7.5 Training

Topic Covered:

• Navigate through the Pipeline Manager directory structure
• Start and stop Pipeline Manager processes
• Interpret contents of the Pipeline Manager Registry files

Topic Covered:

• Explain the function of: EDR description file, Stream Format description file, Input and Output mapping description files, Input and Output Grammar description files
• Explain how to direct stream output to multiple files for loading into the Portal database
• Define an EDR Container
• Explain how input EDRs are converted to the EDR container format

Topic Covered:

• Show how to break down a scenario into its Rate Plan components
• Provide an overview of configuring a Rate Plan
• Describe rating process for delayed events
• Explain the tasks required to implement a Price Plan for delayed events

Topic Covered:

• Explain how the EDR is processed by the Function Modules in the Pipeline
• Explain how Data Modules are used
• Parse the contents of the Pipeline Manager log files

Topic Covered:

• Use FCT_Discard to remove or discard EDR
• Explain how existing modules can be used to modify Pipeline behavior

Topic Covered:

• Define the following language elements of IScript: Data Types, Operators, Functions, Control Structures
• Insert IScript module into Pipeline to customize EDR processing
• Use basic IScript functions to write a new IScript program

Topic Covered:

• Explain EDR block and edrNumDatablocks function
• Explain database connection functions
• Explain hash and array functions
• Use database connection and hash functions to build IScript program

Topic Covered:

• Define IRules
• Demonstrate how to store data arguments to a description file
• Demonstrate the IRule implementation of a specific scenario
• Explain different methods for storing IRules

Topic Covered:

• Explain how Extended Rating Attributes are used
• Understand how to build a custom ERA