Change the Initial State of a Charging Contract

Business Context and Use

This service operation is used in a migration context of customer master data (subscriber data) of the service provider. You use this operation to finalize the migration by changing the initial state of a charging contract just created and stored in SAP Convergent Charging. You can restore counters that reflect credits from a former system.

Customer Data Migration

A former system manages master data related to the end customers of a service provider. You want to migrate this data to SAP Convergent Charging.

• You must extract this information
• You must implement the conversion of this data into master data (and data models) provided and managed by SAP CC before any activity:
  • Business partners (subscriber accounts, subscriber mapping tables )
  • Business agreements (prepaid accounts and external postpaid accounts)
  • Contracts (charging contracts, subscriber mapping tables )
• You must determine the initial states of the prepaid accounts and the initial states of the migrated charging contracts.
• You must implement the bulk provisioning of this converted data to SAP CC according to the following sequence:
  • Create or change subscriber accounts in bundle mode
  • Create or change external accounts in bundle mode
  • Create or change prepaid accounts in bundle mode
  • Change the initial state of prepaid accounts in bundle mode
  • Create the necessary the subscriber mapping tables
  • Create the necessary charging contracts in bundle mode (or in mass mode)
  • Change the initial state of charging contracts in bundle mode
  Two different processing modes are provided for these bulk operations: The bundle mode (all-or-none) or the mass mode (most). Determine the mode recommended for your business requirements.
• Switch the business traffic to SAP Convergent Charging

Related Service Operations

You can use the following operations to change the initial state of charging contracts in bulk:

• Change the initial state of charging contracts in bundle mode
• Change the initial state of charging contracts in mass mode

• Read the state of a charging contract

Features

This service operation changes the initial state of a charging contract been migrated. In the single operation request, you specify the initial state of the charging contract you want to modify.

Refer to the specifications of the charging contract state data model.

Consult the technical details for more information about this service operation.

Error Handling

Refer to the specifications of the charging contract state data model.

The following is the non-exhaustive list of errors:

• If the charging contract does not exist, the operation returns the response status set to error.

The SAP CC system may return an error stack that details the issue.

Message Types

Consult the structures of the message types related to this operation:

• chargingContractStateChangeRequest
• chargingContractStateChangeResponse

Prerequisites

Consider the prerequisites specified for the process component (Web service).

Integration

There is no specific integration information.

Constraints and Integrity Conditions

Consider the constraints and integrity conditions specified for the process component (Web service).