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CA PMA Chargeback Daily Processing

The CA PMA Chargeback program, CAKRLOAD, reads the ORD Data file and uses the committed version of the definitions to apply charges to the CCCTAB (Consolidated Calculated Charges data table) and, if specified, create a Reconciliation file. This process uses two interdependent parameter files to process the ORD file:

• CAIKSPAR parameter provides global parameters for processing
• CAIKRPAR parameter provides specific control parameters for CA PMA Chargeback batch processing

The CAKRLOAD process also uses the Base Version (four-characters) specified in the CAIKSPAR parameter file during generation of the ORD Data file. To process this data using CAKRLOAD, the CAIKRPAR's BASE_VERSION = parameter must refer to the same BASE_VERSION = specified in the CAIKSPAR parameter file. That is, the first four characters of the eight-character CAIKRPAR BASE_VERSION must be the same.

In other words, the selection of records for batch processsing in CA PMA Chargeback is controlled via the CAIKRPAR BASE_VERSION = parameter. Therefore, the records generated by DataManager must match the records requested by CA PMA Chargeback.

CAKRLOAD can optionally produce a Reconciliation file. This file can consume a very significant amount of disk space.

An optional user exit point is also provided for your convenience. Refer to The User Exit for CAKRLOAD for a detailed discussion of this feature.

Caution Daily processing does not perform checking for duplicate input.

CA PMA Chargeback Record Processing Overview

Record processing is performed in the following order:

• If a Shift Chop has been defined, any record meeting the defined criteria is chopped into the appropriate number of shifts.
• Charge unit calculations are performed.
• If normalizers have been defined, those records meeting the specified criteria have their charge units adjusted to reflect the appropriate normalization factor.
• Rate selection is performed. This includes determining whether qualified rates, or maximum or minimum rates should be applied.
• Charges are calculated (rate * units).
• Split Charges are applied to the calculated charges.
• Modifiers are applied to the calculated charges.
• User exit is called if specified.

         --------------
         | Shift Chop |
         --------------
                |
                v
         --------------
         |    Unit    | Base Unit
         -------------- Calculated
                |
                v
         --------------
         | Normalizers| Normalizers applied
         -------------- applied to unit
                |       calculation
                v
         --------------
         |Rate Select.| Qualifiers
         -------------- checked
                |
                v
         --------------
         |Charges     |
         |  Calculated|
         --------------
                |
                v
         --------------
         |Splits      |
         |    Applied |
         --------------
                |
                v
         --------------
         |Modifiers   |
         |    Applied |
         --------------
                |
                v
         --------------
         | User       |
         |     Exit   |
         --------------