Online Billing Usage Requests
- Usage requests created from an online billing request are not held in the initial state. These usage requests are transitioned through their lifecycle resulting in the request being sent to the meter data management system (mdm) and, once a response is received, the bill segment is regenerated.
- The bill segment remains in the Freezable state until the user freezes the bill segment and completes the bill. If the freezable bill segment is regenerated, however, the system cancels the usage request and creates another usage request for the bill segment.
- In addition to the standard mdm usage request elements, the system captures the responsible user id.
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External Reference ID. When creating a usage request, the external reference id is populated based on the version of MDM that your implementation integrates with. This is defined as the MDM Version MO option on the Usage maintenance object. If integrating with MDM 1, the system populates the external reference id using the batch run thread scheduler id to facilitate processing in the external system. Otherwise, the external reference id is left blank and may be updated on the response from the external system.