Purpose

Maintains HEIMS Interface parameters for institutions

SubSystem

Organisational Structure

This function enables the configuration of HEIMS (Higher Education Information Management System) interface controls including:

• Password and Username definition:
  • The storage of an institution’s HEIMS Username and Password. This Password and Username is used in all batch and real-time transactions to HEIMS
  • A new password, randomly generated from GENJ0030, is displayed in this form. This form also has the faciltiy to manually enter a password. The only time this would happen is when the password generated from GENJ0030 displays an error. Under this circumstance, you apply to HEIMS for a reset password. It is this reset password that is manually entered.
• Requests Per 24hr limit:
  • To ensure acceptable service levels for all DEST clients, each client has a limited number of HEIMS transactions they can call every 24 hours
  • Separate daily limits apply to both real-time and batch transactions (DEST is to advise what the limits will be). This function enables theconfiguration of these limits within Callista
• Request Transaction Limit:
  • DEST has defined the batch CHESSN request Transaction limit at 1000 for uncompressed transaction and 10,000 for compressed transaction. This function enables institutions to define a lower limit for compressed requests. Callista will not support uncompressed CHESSN requests, except for the password change function
• HEIMS Server Time Offset:
  • The hours difference between the Local Time Zone and the HEIMS Server Time Zone. For example, if the Local Time is 10:00 and HEIMS time is 13:00 the offset is 3.

This form is accessed via the main menu.

The HEIMS Interface Configuration block contains:

• User Name
• Password
• Password Creation Date
• Daily Batch Transaction Limit
• Daily Real Time Request Limit
• Transaction Limit per Batch Request
• HEIMS Server Time Offset Hours

  Button

  • Show Password

Rules/Notes:

Validations include:

• The Password must be between 7 and 15 characters in length
• The Password must contain a combination of both upper and lowercase characters as well as numbers and special characters (eg #, @, $)
• The HEIMS Server Time Offset must be between -24 and 24
• A HEIMS Interface Configuration record cannot be deleted

At start up, the user is presented with the existing HEIMS Interface Configuration details.

Initially, both the Username and Password within the HEIMS Interface Configuration table is set to NULL. The institution's initial password must be confirmed by HEIMS before information can be saved.

Rules/Notes:

Show Password Button

When querying a HEIMS Configuration record in this form, the label on this button defaults to ‘Show Password’. The Institute’s password is not made visible to the user (That is, concealed using asterisks). By pressing this button, the Institute’s password is displayed and the button’s label displays as ‘Hide Password’.

If the password contains no value then this button is not enabled. Only when the password item contains a value, is this button enabled.

When inserting or updating an Institute’s HEIMS Configuration record, the label on this button defaults to ‘Show Password’. The password is concealed (using asterisks) from the user.

Whenever a HEIMS password is updated, a table of used passwords is also stored.

The last 10 passwords cannot be reused.

A password will expiry within 30 days.

The HEIMS account will be locked after five unsuccessful logon attempts.