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| RPA Overview The Reject Processing Application (RPA) is an image-based, scalable item processing system. It supports capture, correction and distribution of items and images. RPA offers great operational flexibility for how work is run through user-controlled maintenance facilities. All the software products that makeup the operating environment are industry standard offerings. All hardware, with the exception of the NCR sorter, can be acquired from any of dozens of vendors. The application software provides all facilities to manage the operation, including workflows, priorities, scheduling, performance management and security. RPA provides for the use of multiple, concurrent environments. These environments allow the creation and running of many production and test systems on the same hardware. The CPCS systems to which these environments communicate can be structured differently (e.g. Mass Dataset records are different lengths) as required. RPA is year 2000 compliant. The system fully integrates with CPCS, operating seamlessly and automatically. RPA is also able to process without the CPCS host connection if required. The bank controls all system features and processing options. This means that there is no vendor interaction required for testing and changing work processes. The system configuration is illustrated in the Component
Overview. The Software Platform RPA is implemented in two major parts, the Host System and LAN System. The LAN System is built around the Microsoft Back Office software platform. Windows NT Server and Workstation, SQL Server and SNA Server provide the backbone of the application architecture. Windows NT/2000 is used for the SCI Validator. The Sorter Controller operates in the Windows NT/2000 environment. The Host System is built using IBM MVS/ESA assembly language for all software modules. The Hardware Platform The current release of the system uses the NCR 7780 or iTRAN 8000 as the sorting and encoding device. The sorter operator can run the transport as medium speed capture device or a low speed workstation. These transports are used for image lift, encoding and sorting. The 7780 is rated at 500 DPM for non-encode capture. The iTRAN 8000 is rated at 600 DPM. During encode processing, the 7780 is rated at 300-400 DPM. The iTRAN 8000, with its dual encoding paths, is rated at 600 DPM maximum. When used as a workstation (a function where the sorter operator keys each bad-read item) throughput is around 1500-2500 items an hour. The servers and image workstations can be any Windows NT compatible devices with sufficient resources for the volumes to be processed. The Data Server should support RAID 5 (images and the databases). The SCI Validator is an Windows NT/2000 compatible device. The Sorter Controller is an NT/2000 compatible device. For the iTRAN 8000, only NT/2000 is supported. The typical reject application flow uses a first pass image lift and sort run. The good read items on this pass are sorted to good read pockets. The images of the rejects from this pass are corrected in the Key Entry processes. The rejects are stripped and run a second pass to encode them with the corrected MICR data. RPA can be used for prime pass processing as well. This feature is particularly useful for the runs that regularly contain high percentages of reject items. Utility sort functions can also be run on the NCR transports. Basically, any sort programs that can be run on the 3890 can be run under RPA. The price/performance of the 7780/iTRAN 8000 makes them good candidates for any capture data stream. Image lift is used in several of the workflows to enable image key functions. All keying and review functions are performed from images.
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