JPH04149628A - Reception-only printer control system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prevent the useless retransmission processing by exchanging the business forms according to each output form to enable a single reception-only printer to output plural exchange telegrams of different forms and asking a host computer to acquire an exchange telegram only when a terminal is kept in a receivable state. CONSTITUTION:When a transaction telegram 30 is produced from a terminal 2 for input/output of money, etc., an exchange telegram control mechanism 14 retrieves an answered store No.12A out of a terminal control table 12 and returns an answer telegram 31 to the terminal a business store after adding the contents of the exchange telegram store information if the exchange telegrams are retained. A reception-only printer control mechanism 22 of the terminal 2 displays the exchange telegram store information at a control display part 4 and then refers to a reception-only printer control table and then to the business form type and the set information on the business form information 21B. Then the mechanism 22 refers to a printer state 21A if a business form of the same type as the exchange telegram store information is set and then sends an exchange telegram acquiring request 32 to a host computer as long as the state 21A is available. Thus the useless retransmission operation can be omitted at occurrence of a fault like a printer jam, etc.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] ['Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a printer control method exclusively for receiving exchange messages such as money order message transmission in a banking network that is connected to a data processing system used for data processing. .

1' Overview The present invention places an exchange message storage file for each branch in a post computer in a banking system network, and temporarily stores exchange messages addressed to the branch in the corresponding file for each type of exchange message. However, when a withdrawal transaction occurs from a branch, the stored information of the exchanged message is added to the response message of the transaction and notified.

At this time, for a branch that has not had any transactions for a certain period of time, the host/computer sends a notification of retention of exchanged messages to the branch terminal. The terminal at the branch receives the notification from the host computer, and if the corresponding form is not set in the reception-only printer, requests the host computer to obtain the exchange message one by one.

When the number of pending notifications from the host computer reaches zero, reception requests are stopped. If the corresponding form is not set, the corresponding form cellar 1~ is displayed on the control display section of the terminal.
Displays the number of requests and pending requests, and invites terminal operators to set up forms. When notified of the form set by the terminal operator, the terminal requests the host computer 1 to obtain the form one by one.

As a result, it is possible to output multiple forms using a reception-only printer, and by requesting the host computer to obtain data only when the terminal is ready to receive data, unnecessary retransmission processing can be avoided in the event of a failure such as a form jam. To prevent.

C. Conventional technology] Conventionally, when multiple exchange messages such as money order messages and refund information were to be sent, a number of reception-only machines corresponding to the type of form were installed at the branch, and the host computer generated the exchange messages. Each time, the distribution process is automatically performed to the corresponding receiving-only device. For this reason, it is necessary to always install a reception-only machine that corresponds to the type of form in the branch, and because the post computer delivers messages regardless of the terminal status, if a printer jams, the machine must be redistributed (AL, It needed to be fixed.

[Invention or problem to be solved]

In the conventional exchange message control method described above, it is necessary to install a printer dedicated to receiving each form type, and when a jam occurs in the printer, it is necessary to re-deliver the message again. For this reason,
With the development of the branch information system, there is a drawback that a large amount of investment is required for bank operation, which is increasing the amount of return information.

The purpose of the present invention is to solve such problems and to be able to handle multiple forms using a single reception-only printer, and to request the host computer to send data when the output to the reception-only printer is ready. Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a reception-only printer control method that prevents the occurrence of wasteful retransmission processing in the event of a failure.

[Means to solve the problem]

The reception-only printer control method of the present invention is a reception-only printer control method for a banking network in which a post computer and a terminal are connected via a communication medium, in which the post computer stores exchanged messages addressed to each branch. Exchange message accumulation file that stores the exchange message type, number of pending messages, and form type 1 notified display of multiple exchange messages corresponding to the store number of each branch, and exchange message accumulation information that holds the exchange message type, number of pending messages, and notification display of the form type 1 corresponding to the store number of each branch, and the number of people from the branch. For money transactions, inquiry transactions, and non-communication business offices, the timer control mechanism activates when no communication times out, refers to the exchange message accumulation table, and when activated due to a transaction, responds to the transaction. Adds information from the exchange message storage table to the message, generates an asynchronous exchange message when activated due to no communication timeout, adds information from the exchange message storage table to the corresponding exchange message, and sends the message to the corresponding branch. The terminal has an exchange message control mechanism that has a mechanism for transmitting a message to the terminal, notifying the terminal that the exchange message is pending, and transmitting one corresponding exchange message when receiving a request to obtain an exchange message from a branch; a reception-only printer 3; a control display unit that displays on the screen a notification of exchange message retention from the host computer;
The reception-only printer management table holds information on whether the reception-only printer can be used and the type of form set in the reception-only printer, and is activated when an exchange message retention notification is received from the host computer. , Compare the form type in the message with the form type and set information in the reception-only printer management table, and if they match, send a request to the post computer to obtain an exchange message, and if they do not match, send an exchange to the control display section of the terminal. A reception-only printer that displays the contents of the message retention notification and is activated when the terminal operator notifies the information set in accordance with the exchange message retention notification to the reception-only printer management table and requests the host computer to obtain the exchange message. By having a printer control mechanism and requesting the post side to obtain an exchange message only when the terminal side is in a receiving state, unnecessary updates are not performed when a receive-only printer fails, and the form can be replaced in accordance with the output format. This system is characterized by a single reception-only printer that outputs a plurality of different exchanged messages in eight-way formats.

〔Example〕

Next, one embodiment of the present invention will be described based on the drawings.

FIG. 15 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

In this embodiment, a host computer 1 and a terminal 2 are connected to a communication medium 3.
Connected and configured by 5.

On host computer 1, application program 1
0, when an exchange message for business unremaining is generated, the application program 10 stores the exchange message in the exchange message accumulation file 11 corresponding to the form type of the relevant branch, and at the same time stores the exchange message in the corresponding message in the terminal management table 12. The number of pending messages corresponding to the type of exchange message in the exchange message accumulation information 12B of the branch office is increased by the number of generated messages.

When a transaction message 30 such as a deposit/withdrawal is generated from the terminal 2 at the branch, the exchange message control mechanism 4 is activated after the host computer completes the deposit/withdrawal process. And exchange message controller W41.
1 indexes the response store number 12A of the terminal management table 12 from the store number of the sales store that returns the response, and retrieves the exchange message accumulation information 1.
2B, and if there is a pending exchange message, add the contents of the exchange message accumulation information to the response message 31,
The response message 31 is returned to the terminal at the branch. Upon reception of the response message 31 from the host computer 1, the reception-only printer control mechanism 22 of the terminal 2 is activated.

If the exchange message accumulation information is added to the response message 31, the reception-only brisitter 22 displays the exchange message accumulation information on the control display section 4 of the terminal 2.

After displaying, refer to the reception-only control table, refer to the form type and set information in the form information 21B, and check whether the same form as the form type in the exchange message storage information is set. If the same form is set, refer to the printer status 21A and select 5. If available,
An exchange message acquisition request 32 is sent to the host.

When the host computer 1 receives the exchange message acquisition request 32, the exchange message control mechanism 14 is activated.

The exchange message control mechanism 14 indexes the exchange message accumulation file 11 and the exchange message accumulation information 12B from the store number and form type in the exchange message acquisition request 32, subtracts 1 from the number of pending messages, and returns the top of the unsent messages among the accumulated messages. One message is acquired, an exchange message 33 is created, and it is sent to the requesting terminal. The terminal 2 that received the exchange message 33 outputs the message to the reception-only printer 3.

Thereafter, the terminal 21 subtracts 1 from the number of pending exchange messages notified earlier, and if the number of pending messages is not zero, it activates the reception-only printer '1s22 again and sends each message to the host computer 1 one by one. An exchange message acquisition request 32 is made. When no transaction occurs from the branch terminal for a certain period of time, the timer control mechanism 13 of the host calculation 8!1 notifies the timer control mechanism 1, and the traffic inspection message control mechanism 1...1 is activated, and the terminal management All the branch information in table 12 is referred to, and if there is a pending message, an exchange message pending notification is created and notified to the corresponding branch. The subsequent method is the same as above.

Information is set in the reception-only printer management table 21 of the terminal 2 using the terminal keyboard 5.

When the exchange message notification 32 is received from the post computer 1, if the form corresponding to the form information 21B of the terminal 2 is not set, only the exchange message accumulation information 12B is displayed on the control display section 4. After that, after setting the information from the terminal keyboard 5 mentioned earlier, the reception-only bridge is sent from the terminal A-1.
・Wait until the evening control symbol is activated. The method after activation of the reception control printer control mechanism 22 is the same as described above.

r Effect of the Invention 1 As explained in 1-1 above, according to the present invention, it is possible to control exchanged messages of different types of forms with one reception-only printer, and when the reception-only printer is in a usable state. Since only a request is made to the host computer to obtain an exchanged message, wasteful retransmission processing is unnecessary in the event of a failure such as a printer jam, and efficient communication and effective use of resources are made possible8.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. 1...Host computer, 2...Terminal, 3...
...reception-only printer, 4.control display section, 5.
...Terminal keyboard.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] In a reception-only printer control system for a banking network in which a host computer and a terminal are connected via a communication medium, an exchange message storage for storing exchange messages addressed to each branch in the host computer. files, exchange message accumulation information that holds the exchange message type, number of pending messages, form type, notified display of multiple exchange messages corresponding to the store number of each branch, and deposit/withdrawal transactions and inquiry transactions from the branch. , and for non-communication business offices, the timer control mechanism controls the non-communication time.
It is activated when an out occurs, refers to the exchanged message storage table, and when activated due to a transaction, it adds information from the exchanged message storage table to the response message of the transaction, and saves the non-communication time.
When activated due to an out, it generates an asynchronous exchange message, attaches the exchange message accumulation table information to the exchange message, sends it to the relevant branch, notifies the branch of exchange messages, and sends the message from the branch. It has an exchange message control mechanism that has a mechanism for transmitting one corresponding exchange message when a request to obtain an exchange message is received, and the terminal has a printer for receiving only and a screen that displays notifications of exchange message retention from the host computer on the screen. The control display section to display, the reception-only printer management table that holds set information such as whether the reception-only printer can be used, the type of form set in the reception-only printer, and the reception of exchange message retention notifications from the host computer. It compares the form type in the corresponding message with the form type and set information in the reception-only printer management table, and if they match, requests the host computer to obtain the exchange message, and if they do not match, the terminal Displays the contents of the exchange message retention notification on the control display section, and is activated when the terminal operator notifies the information set according to the exchange message retention notification to the reception-only printer management table and sends a request to the host computer to obtain the exchange message. By having a reception-only printer control mechanism that allows reception-only printers to perform this function, and requesting the host side to obtain an exchanged message only when the terminal side is ready for reception, unnecessary updates are not performed when the reception-only printer fails, and forms that match the output format can be generated. A reception-only printer control method is characterized in that a single reception-only printer outputs exchanged messages in a plurality of different output formats by switching between the two.