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Grace L. Ramos · Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2002 6:37 am Post subject:

Hi,

I'm currently responding to an RFI for a bank client which is interested in getting MQ Workflow. I hope you can help me in some of their requirements...

Will MQWorkflow meet this requirement without any programming effort and How? Or with how much programming effort and how?

Process Definition:
1. Capability of MQ Workflow to define checklist of document requirements for a process.
2. Capability of MQ Workflow to validate transaction versus document requirements checklist.

Data Capture:
1. Capability of providing data entry selection of valid field values through drop down list.

Process Management:
Work Initiation and Routing
1. Have a business calendar facility that supports automatic initiation of a process based on a user pre-defined date and time schedule
2. Capability to compare cycle time versus standard turn-around time (can I use Holosofsx?)

Process Monitoring and Notification:
1. Capability to send notifications via SMS.
2. Capability to send notification to processor regarding work in queue (worklist..)

Queue Management (worklist mgmt)
1. Capability to automatically assign activity to a processor with the least load
2. Capability to automatically re-assign pending activity to another processor if it is not completed within pre-set standard turn-around time
3. Capability for processor to reject or delegate an activity to another processor
4. Capability for manager to change and assign the priority level of a transaction overriding the default queuing rule (such as first in - first out)
5. Capability for manager to change sequence of activities overriding the default process flow for a specific transaction
6. Capability for manager to re-assign pending activity to another processor manually
7. Capability for manager to rollback a transaction to its previous state or undo a transaction entirely

Security:
1. Ability to secure access to the system utilizing encrypted passwords and logon IDs
2. Ability to link to the bank's security system ACFS -Mainframe
3. Ability to support SSL if web-enabled
4. Ability to copy security profiles
5. Ability to disable/expire the logon ID after specified number of unsuccessful logon attempts
6. Ability to disable/expire the logon ID after specified number of days inactivity
7. Should disallow simultaneous use of logon IDs

Version Management
1. Ease of creating new versions due to new / modified data fields
2. Ease of creating new versions due to new / modified processes
3. Capability to handle pending transactions when transitioning from current workflow version to a new version

I do not have any implementation experience on MQ Workflow. I learned about this product in a bootcamp I attended last year. I hope you can help me respond to the above requirements and hopefully we can close the deal and I'll have my 1st implem exp.

Thanks a lot for your support.

Grace L. Ramos