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September 8, 2008
Feed
TGRCLOS runs nightly before the feed kicks off. It closes and finalizes the cashiers sessions. A cashiers session will not be fed until it is finalized. The feed itself runs nightly in the cron job SWBUGLF. This is a com file that goes through a series of steps to complete a feed. This takes records form A/R and student and feeds them into the FIS system on Banner. This includes the accounting for checks done in SIS.
The first part of the feed is unapplication of payments and application of payments. TGRAPPL has only aborted once in about 10 years when a detail code from housing was fed into Banner from a third party software incorrectly. We had to fix a bunch of
tbraccd records after manually unapplying them.
TGRFEED is the main program that feeds stuff across. It puts records into tables gurfeed and gurapay that gets picked up by the FIS part of the process. If the feed bombs in the middle of tgrfeed, your best bet is to reset the feed and start over. There is a script, feed_reset.sql, that shows you how to do this. It is the usual spot where a feed bombs
Furfeed list the fdocs generated, tgrrcon is a A/R report, tgrcshr is the cashier report. The generated index report shows the SIS checks that fed across. These are all just reports
The FIS side starts up around step 16. This sets up posting and accounting for the records coming across. It's important to note you can run these FIS steps manually one at a time without hurting anything. So if you run into a problem in this section, you
don't have to back out all the stuff in the first half of the feed.
A common thing that happens is the printer runs out of paper and then queue stalls overnight. When you restart the queue, you get an error message for the lis file. Just go to the ban_spool directory and reprint the files that are missing.
Posted by wendlerb at September 8, 2008 12:43 PM
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