Excel Pragma

If you’ve worked on Reuters Kondor Trade Processing (KTP) version 4.x.x especially on the SWIFT module, you probably agree that a tool for browsing through (and into) atoms would be a great help, if not essential.
Here’s where Atom Checker comes in. Originally developed on Access , I’ve started migrating the functionality to Excel due to the wider availability of the application (on Client side and Consultant side). The current Atom Checker version allows you to :

• quickly search through atoms
• dissect every atom for display in a tree-view format
• provide all the information on the atom from the param_atome table

Here’s a screen shot of Atom Checker v1.0.

The next versions (when fully migrated from Access) will allow you to :

• back-track through an atom : check if any other atoms use the current atom
• back-track through the modules : check if this atom is used in any accounting configuration or SWIFT Templates.
• back-track through the MDL files to check if the atom is used in any of them.
• check if the current physical MDLs are utilised in KTP.

Send me a comment if you think there’s more atom functionality that should be exposed to excel. Unfortunately, the ultimate for me would be to be able to execute atoms from Excel but that’s turning out to be too complicated (read impossible)