The Export CPC Details form is accessed via Maintenance Control / Miscellaneous Options / Export CPC Details.
This is a customer specific option. American Express do not want to receive printed invoices and require that all invoices, recharges, etc, are sent electronically.
This is an extraction process run within Timed Operations which extracts the closed CPC authorisations (generated by the CPC Invoice Maintenance option into a file ready to be transmitted to Amex. This process also extracts any invoices created for CPC customers by IFS. The file is called paylink.txt and is located in a CPC directory within unix. A copy of this extraction file is saved in a backup unix directory . The file is date and time stamped so that it can be retrieved and resent if necessary.
The extraction file is ultimately removed from the system by an external process and transmitted to Amex.
Tip: To learn about the CPC process refer to the Invoice CPC Maintenance process.
The form is split into three areas. These are the Titlebar, the Export CPC Details Dialogue Box and a series of Command Buttons at the bottom of the form.
In addition to displaying the form name the Title Bar provides a number of useful buttons.
This area of the form simply contains a description of what is achieved by initiating the Export CPC Details routine. The description is as follows:
This process will extract details of FC.ipend transactions that are tagged as CPC transactions and place them in /user1/flt82Q9/CPC/paylink.txt.
Note: The output is now split in to positive values at first followed by negative values.
The following command buttons are displayed:
Confirms and proceeds with the Export CPC Details option.
Cancels any menu options and returns to the Miscellaneous Options Menu.
Provides online access to a context sensitive Help form.