IBM Safer Payments SysOps Training (V6.6)

Day 1: Installation, cluster configuration, and system configuration

• Introductory Overview of Safer Payments
• SP Cluster Architecture
• Safer Payment Interfaces
• High Availability and Fail-over
• Installing Safer Payments (Unix Installation)
• Data Storage and Retention
• Mandator Hierarchy
• User Roles and User Accounts
• Message Computation Flow

Day 2: Data Dictionary and Batch Data Import

• Message and Data Formats
• Data Dictionary
• Masterdata
• Real-time data ingestion
• Batch data ingestion
• Exporting data
• Pre-processing rules
• External Model Components
• Monitoring (SAI, KPI)
• Logging

Day 3: Modelling in Safer Payments Part 1

• Backup and Restore Safer Payments
• Updating Safer Payments
• Authentication
• PCI DSS
• Encryption
• System Configuration
• Maintenance functions
• Compliance Lists
• Notices

• External: Application and System Admins managing Safer Payments
• Internal: IBM Lab Services, IBM Support, IBM Technical Pre-Sales and IBM Business Partners

• Must be familiar with Unix command line navigation and configuration actions
• Some familiarity with payment processing systems
• Familiarity with the concepts of clustering and network/firewall topics
• Familiarity and comfort with troubleshooting and problem determination processes

• Install and configure a Safer Payments cluster (Linux environment)
• Understand how to ingest and map data into Safer Payments
• Understand the cluster architecture and fail- over Mechanism of Safer Payments
• Set up Safer Payments for real-time processing of messages
• Understand how to monitor and troubleshoot Safer Payments 
• Understand how to perform Backups, Updates, Restores