1 About the EDR Recycling Features

Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) includes several tools for managing suspended (failed) pipeline event data records (EDRs).

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About the EDR Recycling Features

BRM offers these tools for managing EDRs that Pipeline Manager does not successfully rate:

  • Standard recycling. BRM provides the standard recycling tools as the default EDR recycling mechanism. You use the pin_recycle utility to test recycle, recycle, or delete EDRs that failed to process the first time through the pipeline.

    The standard recycling tools include:

    • The FCT_Reject pipeline module

    • The FCT_PreSuspense pipeline module

    • The FCT_Suspense pipeline module

    • The pin_recycle utility

    For details about standard recycling, see "About Standard Recycling".

  • Suspense Manager. Suspense Manager is a service integration component that you purchase separately. It offers the most comprehensive and flexible set of tools for managing:

    • Individual failed CDRs

    • Large numbers of individual failed CDRs at once (bulk processing)

    • CDR files containing multiple CDRs (batch processing)

    Suspense Manager includes the Suspense Management Center GUI application to:

    • Analyze, edit, recycle, test recycle, write off, archive, and delete CDRs, either individually or in bulk.

    • Analyze, resubmit, write off, and delete batch files of CDRs.

    Suspense Manager also includes a set of BRM reports to analyze suspended call records. For details, see "About Suspense Manager".

  • Recycling EDRs for pipeline-only systems. This feature is for systems that use Pipeline Manager but do not store suspended EDRs in the BRM database.

    This feature includes the FCT_Recycle and FCT_PreRecycle pipeline modules you use to recycle suspended EDRs. For details, see "Recycling EDRs in Pipeline-Only Systems".