Create or Change Subscriber Accounts in Bundle Mode

Business Context and Use

This service operation is used in a provisioning context or in a migration context of master data related to end customers (subscriber data) of the service provider.

The operation enables you to create or change subscriber accounts in bundle mode in SAP Convergent Charging. The bundle mode means that you maintain several subscriber accounts at the same time but the modifications apply only if the processing is successful for each subscriber account.

Business Partner Management

Your CRM application or another provisioning system manages master data related to the business partners and replicates data in SAP CC by maintaining some subscriber data for end customers of the service provider. Data includes: Subscriber accounts, subscriber mapping tables

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 maintain subscriber accounts:

• Create or change a subscriber account
• Create or change subscriber accounts in mass mode

• Read a subscriber account
• Read the full version of a subscriber account

Features

This bundle operation enables you to maintain multiple subscriber accounts in bulk.

It works as a container for several single operations of type SubscriberAccountMaintain. The single operations are performed sequentially by the SAP CC system. The modifications apply only if all the single operations contained in the bundle operation are successful. If the operation fails for one subscriber account, no modification is done.

Two situations occur:

• All the single operations are successful. The result of the operation is a list of successful results for all the operations subscriberAccountMaintain contained in the subscriberAccountMaintainBundle operation.
• One operation fails. The process stops immediately and the result of the operation is a list of successful results and one failed result.

Note that idempotency does not apply to each of the subscriberAccountMaintain single operation contained in the subscriberAccountMaintainBundle operation but only to the subscriberAccountMaintainBundle bundle operation itself.

Error Handling

Consider the error handling information specified for the bundle operations. Refer to the information about error handling in the subscriber account business object and in the SubscriberAccountMaintain single operation.

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:

• subscriberAccountMaintainBundleRequest
• subscriberAccountMaintainBundleResponse

Prerequisites

There is no prerequisite.

Integration

There is no specific integration information.

Constraints and Integrity Conditions

In a migration context of master data related to end customers (subscriber data) of the service provider, consider the constraints and integrity conditions specified for this context.