MBS GENERAL INFORMATION UPDATETerri Hunt, John Church and Phil Goble

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MBS emails your PSR/Programming Support when an error occurs in the web application, and specific IP range(s) can be excluded from access

Event Notification – MBS can be configured to send emails when certain messages/exceptions are raised in the batch programs (such as posting payment or deposit batches) and Programming Support (by default) gets copied on all events with a Critical or Error severity

Leveraging QRT – If your company has business rules that MBS cannot enforce (i.e. they are specific to how your company operates), automated queries can send emails about data anomalies, if present

MBS – REACTING TO CONDITIONS

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Automated nightly scripts checking for bad data caused by known bugs, which allows CDG to respond quickly to find problems and, if possible, correct the data until a fix can be deployed

Validation scripts – Every 3-6 months we run a series of scripts that know the business rules of the application from a data integrity perspective and help find potential problems

MBS – PROACTIVE CHECKING

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Thank you! Thanks to everyone who made suggestions last year about ways to enhance the conversion process and weekly meetings

CDG created an MBS onboarding document to help outline some important considerations for conversions, including a phased approach to the order in which we convert data, to help clarify the process of 10,0001 questions that comes with conversions

MBS – CONVERSION ENHANCEMENTS

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MBS GENERAL INFORMATION UPDATE:AIX BILLING REVIEW & FTP RMS INFORMATIONJohn Church

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Faster runtimes on AIX versus the mainframe – We have noticed a third to half the time for running billings

Clients will be able to view reports quicker through the Company Report File screen and the reports get created in real time

Clients can now approve or help with the approval of their reports and bills

Clients will be able to view bills before they are loaded into the Bill Image

In the future, you will be able to monitor your toll and submit your own billings

AIX ADVANTAGES

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UTILITIES

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REPORTS

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VIEWING REPORT

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Please keep in mind when viewing reports, if you are going to print or take information off the reports, please wait until the PSR has notified you to do so

We do on occasion rerun a billing to fix an issue

ANNOUNCEMENT

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Instead of receiving your CD a couple of days after your billing approval, you can get the files the same day the billing is approved

Instead of storing information on CDs, you can save the RMS billing reports and bills to the hard drive of your computer for easy access

Files are compressed when you pull them back and you can then copy them to a thumb drive for safe keeping

Save on postage for mailing CDs to your office

Save a small cost on the CD itself

ADVANTAGES

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RMS INFORMATION VIA FTP

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Once the files are downloaded to the directory on your PC or server, you can copy them to a thumb drive or un-compress them to place them in a folder

To run, click the RmsCd.exe file to start RMS like normal (You can also create a shortcut for the .exe command on your desktop)

RUNNING RMS

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MBS GENERAL INFORMATION UPDATE: CDG INFRASTRUCTURE CHANGESPhil Goble

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Color Printers Implemented

Upgraded Storage

Server Upgrades

PCI Out of Scope

iSeries OS Upgrade (licensee impact)

MAJOR CHANGES

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3 color printers replaced 3 B&W printers in February

Eliminates need for preprinted stock

Color quality exceeds that of preprinted stock

Provides opportunity for color in 1st page message area

Color inserts could now be replaced through use of a color page on the invoice

Color printing on pages other than page 1 would result in additional fees that have yet to be determined

COLOR PRINTERS IMPLEMENTED

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IBM XIV storage implemented in Champaign and at disaster recovery site will be used for all CDG systems

Encrypted for increased security (physical access)

Uses flash components for increased performance

Highly redundant with mirroring support

Additional details can be found athttp://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/disk/xiv/features.html

STORAGE UPGRADE

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We our replacing 4 older Dell R710s in our Champaign data center with newer Dell R730s

Transaction performance is about 2x better

SERVER UPGRADES

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CDG will begin using Open Edge to accept, validate and store credit cards beginning with the MBS 4.0 release

This change means these functions are now being performed by a vendor that is fully PCI compliant

This takes CDG out of scope of PCI

This reduces company exposure but does not remove them from their own PCI responsibilities

CREDIT CARD PROCESSING CHANGES

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Credit card numbers stored only if Open Edge used

Only the last 4 digits of the credit card will be stored within MBS, which means extraction of credit card numbers from MBS is no longer possible

Expiration date will continue to be stored

CDG tools identifying expiring credit cards still available

Open Edge supports automatic update of credit card numbers and expiration dates (free for now, but could involve fees later)

Tokens link to credit cards stored in Open Edge to support credit card reuse and autopay

CREDIT CARD PROCESSING CHANGES

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All CDG MBS licensees are currently on v6r1

IBM v6r1 is end of life on 9/30/2015

IBM v7r2 is the current iSeries OS release

CDG already has CABS customers on the v7r2 release

MBS expects to complete its testing of the v7r2 release by 08/01/2015

CDG and MBS licensees should be looking at tentative dates for upgrading to the v7r2 release

ISERIES OS UPGRADE

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