Data quality and completeness tab

Use validation slots to assign validation sets to service point channels. Validation slots also identify the purpose of the validation set.

Each service point channel has three validation slots. A validation set can be assigned to each slot. For example, the Billing set may contain strict rules that ensure valid billing data, while the Load Research slot may contain rules relevant to load analysis. It is not necessary to assign a validation set to each validation slot.

The default validation slot names are Billing, Load Research, and Other. You can change Validation slot names in the System Administration workbench. IEE internally references these slots as ValidationSlot1, ValidationSlot2, and ValidationSlot3. However, the external names are more useful to users. Each validation status identifies the validation set to which the validation slot is assigned.

Numeric value from 1 to 100 that indicates the minimum percentage of readings that meet the specified data quality criteria. For example, if the threshold percent is 100, data will be exported if a minimum of 100 percent of the readings meet the other data quality criteria that you specify for each slot. The valid values are as follows. 1-100. Default value is 100.

Once you specify the percentage:

• Check the box to specify if at least one register reading must exist.

• Check the boxes to specify the validation statuses that must exist in each slot.

Determines what happens when at the deadline date there are some readings but not all readings. The valid values are as follows.

• Proceed with partial export. Select to export the partial readings according to the following criteria:

  • Export All Available Readings. Select to have IEE export the available readings.

  • Export Only Readings that Match the Above Criteria. Select to have IEE export the readings that match the checked statuses above. This option is only enabled when one of the status options is checked.

Determines whether IEE zero-fills the output when partial data is being exported on a channel. By default, this option is not enabled in the AMI Data Export task template.

Typically, Zero-Fill Partial Channel is not enabled for tasks that are put on a daily recurring schedule. For example, if not all of the previous day's data is retrieved by the time of the scheduled export, the CycleData tables record the actual timestamp of the last interval received. On the next recurrence, the start date of the export is set to pick up the missed intervals from the previous day. If Zero-Fill Partial Channel is enabled, IEE sets those missing intervals to a value of zero and exports them. On the next recurrence, those intervals have already been exported, and are not re-exported even if the actual intervals have arrived.

Zero-Fill Partial Channel is typically enabled for file-based requests where data for every interval is necessary. In this scenario, IEE exports missing intervals as zero values.