Sort Table Editor Product (STEP)

In any check processing environment, there is a constant need to make changes to sort patterns, the main components of which are the sort tables. These tables represent the "logic maps" that guide the item pocket selection decision process executed by the sorter during the capture and sort runs. Carreker's Sort Table Editor Product (STEP) is a Windows® -based solution using an intuitive graphical interface that lets you create, accept, edit, and validate Sort Pattern Generator (SPG) tables used to control the sort process of the IBM 3890/XP Document Processor.

The system provides an easy-to-use graphical tool that builds and maintains those logic maps. STEP provides the ability to change the sort table data in an orderly, logical, and methodical fashion, increasing efficiency and reducing errors.

FEATURES

• STEP is a Windows®-based application that works with Windows® 95, 98, and NT.
  
• STEP takes advantage of the Windows® graphical user interface for its data presentation and manipulation.
  
• STEP supports SPG 3.1 sort tables that are compatible with IBM's Check Processing Control Program (CPCS) version 1.11
  
• STEP is easy to install, using a standard Windows® operating system based application.
  
• There is no requirement to change your existing standard SPG 3.1 system to support and interface with STEP.
  
• STEP edits and validates data as it is entered, eliminating the majority of the errors typically produced when entering and manipulating sort table data in a less automated production environment.
  
• STEP uses existing Windows workstations that do not require additional hardware and software other than MS Access® 97.
  

BENEFITS

Sort Table Editor (STEP) offers users significant benefits:

Reduced Data Entry Errors
With its real-time data checking and validation, using STEP will reduce the number of errors when building sort tables.

Built In Validation Rules
STEP is delivered with pre-defined validation rules and edit criteria. This eliminates the need to learn and determine the values for table fields.

Extensive Table Editing
STEP provides extensive editing capabilities to ensure the building of valid sort patterns.

Current And Accepted Platform
STEP is easy to install and use. As a Windows® - based product, initial requirements for education and training are reduced for personnel maintaining sort patterns.

Standard Data Conversion
STEP provides built-in functions that import standard SPG 3.1 tables to its database. This provides a quick and accurate method of building STEP data.

Complements SPG 3.1
STEP was designed specifically to support Carreker's Sort Pattern Generator (SPG) sort tables. This allows you to maintain the SPG tables in an easy, fast, and accurate manner. You do not have to make changes to SPG to use STEP.

Graphical User Interface
STEP takes advantage of the Windows® GUI, mouse, and hotkeys features. This allows you to easily access and change table data.

Easy To Learn And Use
STEP provides comprehensive on-line help, editing, and validating rules that make it intuitive and easy to learn and use.

Allows Quick And Mass Changes
STEP lets you to filter, sort, and select similar data requiring updates. This allows you to quickly make mass changes to common values across SPG tables.

For more information about this solution, contact Doug Halvorsen at 704.602.5335 or complete our Information Request Form.