Batch File Formatting
TIBCO Reward encourages its clients to provide their batch file data in XML files that match the schema published by TIBCO Reward. Such files require no transformation and offer the most flexibility.
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Some clients provide their batch file data to TIBCO Reward in non-XML files that are in the standard output format generated by their native systems. While importing such files, TIBCO Reward converts the files into XML by applying transformation processes developed and agreed upon during the initial phases of data integration with a client. A crucial part of TIBCO Reward’s initial data integration efforts is the definition and testing of these data transformations. When this is complete, TIBCO Reward can transform these files, normalizing and repackaging the file data into the XML format that TIBCO Reward uses.
By contractual arrangement, data exported from TIBCO Reward to a client can be transformed from TIBCO Reward’s XML format into the native file format of a client.
The batch file specifications in this chapter assist in setting up these transformations, especially when used in coordination with the client Data Mapping Templates supplied by TIBCO Reward’s Account Management team at the start of data integration.
If TIBCO Reward is handling any transformation, you will need to notify your Account Management Representative when you want to make a change to that batch integration as the Data Integration team will need to change the transform to handle the new or modified data elements.
After any necessary batch file transformations are completed, the batch file feeds data to the TIBCO Reward database in XML format. The XML format follows the appropriate schema for the type of data being provided. For each batch file, links to the corresponding schema and schema documentation are provided.