Overview of the SEPA component

The SEPA component of the Pack for Financial Payments supports validation of the Single European Payments Area (SEPA) scheme datasets, transformation samples between SEPA, and individual domestic formats.

The SEPA component can link your current payments systems and operations in their current mode to SEPA validation, providing processing and enrichment for your back office and intermediary systems.

This documentation provides introductory and reference material needed to implement the SEPA component of the Pack for Financial Payments as part of an overall SEPA solution. This documentation contains background on SEPA, including the following topics:
  • A description of how the SEPA component fits into your SEPA processing for credit transfer and direct debit transactions
  • Configuration of the SEPA component, including specifics of deploying the component on z/OS
  • A description of the SEPA message validation framework
  • A discussion of the domestic format converters.
For a description of installation and uninstallation procedures for this product, refer to the release notes.