NSI XML Retail Accounting
Report Producing Application 1.0
Conformance Statement

Note to submitter: This form contains a series of questions that need to be answered. Please complete ALL the fields in the questionnaire below to produce a conformance statement for your XML Retail Accounting Report Producing Application. Your completed form should be submitted to the Certification and Verification Authority when you register for certification or verification. Please ensure that you use the current version of the questionnaire (available on the certification/verification web site) for your submission. See the Guide to the NSI Certification and Verification Program and Guide Supplements for more information. Please note that all information in this conformance statement will appear on the public Register of certified/verified practices. Revision History showing the changes in this Conformance Statement from prior versions is contained at the end of this document.

1. Submitter Information

Enter the name of the author of this Conformance Statement.

Author: Lynnette Crolley

Organization: SC Education Lottery

2. Technology

2.1 Identifier

Please provide an identifier for the XML Retail Accounting Report Producing Application.

If the application has a product or public name, please specify that, along with the release and/or version number. Otherwise, please provide a name for identifying this particular technology. This identifier should be unique at a given release level to the combination of components defined in 2.3 below or should be generic to the specific combination of components and include an overall release number for the release subject to certification or verification (e.g., COREONE or CORE version 1.1).

Identifier: SCEL XML Accounting 1.0

2.2 Scope of Technology

Please define the constituent components of the technology. This definition must include all components that implement any part of the Technical Standard, or that are in some way impacted by the Technical Standard. This definition should include the release and/or version number for each component.

It is necessary to define the composition of a technology in terms of constituent components so the certifying or verifying Organization knows its obligations each time it modifies a technology for a specific market need or changes its underlying design.

These components could consist of one or more from the following non-exhaustive list:

The technology is comprised of the components stated below. The Organization must list every component that is impacted by the Technical Standard.

Windows Server 2003 SP2
5.7gb RAM
4 1.8ghz Processors
Visual Studio.NET
SQL 2000
FTP
SMTP

3. Implementation of Optional Data Items

Question 1: Which of the following optional data items have been implemented in the XML Retail Accounting Report Producing Application?

This section identifies the full set of optional data items implemented and validated in the application codebase, whether or not each data item is used/enabled in each of the operational environments in the which the application is deployed.

Response:

Optional Data Item Supported
Bill/Number
Cashing Commission
County Code
Country Code
Damaged Ticket Count
Damaged Ticket Value
Date Returned
Instant Base Cashing Commission
Instant Bonus Cashing Commission
Instant Bonus Commission
Instant Coupons
Middle Name
Net Sales
Online Base Cashing Commission
Online Bonus Cashing Commission
Online Bonus Commission
Online Charges
Online Promotion Commission
Online Redeems Count
Online Promotion Non-Commission
Online Replay
Pack ID
Postal Code Extension
Prefix
Previous Balance
Previous Week Sweep Amount
Return Amount
Return Tickets Quantity
Store Number
Suffix
Supplier
Sweep Date
Title
Total Sales Commission
Wholesale Per Pack
Wholesale Per Ticket
Year To Date Commission

Rationale:

Lotteries may include within their XML documents any of the data element marked as "Optional" in the "Status" field of the standard Mapping Table.

Reference:

XML Retail Accounting Reports in the Lottery Industry, Version 1.0 (Document Number TS0402) - Section 5.4, NSI Standard Lottery-Retail Accounting Mapping Table

4. Validation Environment

Specify the name and version of the Validation Harness.

Validation Harness Name: XML Standard Pilot

Validation Harness Version Number: Version 1.0

Specify the hardware platform and software environment in which this technology's conformance has been demonstrated. Define this validation environment in sufficient detail to enable the validation process to be repeated. For the hardware platform, this should include the unique name and identity of the hardware used and its release or version number. For the software architecture, this should include the name, version number, and release identifier of all the software components, including the applicable operating system.

Hardware Platform (on which technology was validated):

Windows Server 2003 SP2
1gb RAM
4 3.0ghz Processors

Software Architecture (on which technology was validated):

Visual Studio.NET
SQL 2000
FTP
SMTP

5. Operational Environment

If the environment for which you wish to claim and guarantee conformance is not identical to the environment in which conformance was validated, specify the hardware platform(s) and/or software environment in which this technology's conformance is guaranteed.

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