Once you have registered your herd with BCMS (see Registering your herd with BCMS), and received your originator ID it is necessary to submit a conformance test. This ensures that the program submits correctly formatted data and confirms the e-mail links.
At the InterPremium main menu select System..Options from the menu items:
In the system options form the notification part should look as below:
Ensure that the required check boxes are ticked and that the Notification format is set to 'British (BCMS)'. Replace the originator ID with the one you were given by BCMS. Then close the System Options form.
Select the Purchases, births and disposals from the Lists/Reports menu item:
In the Purchases, births and disposals form select the Conformance tests menu item:
Select each of the menu options appropriate to your country (two in the example above). A warning message is generated each time:
At the warning screen click OK after noting that once each conformance test is successfully completed it should not be repeated. The Send notifications form then appears:
The e-mail address for the conformance test
(conform@sis.maff.gov.uk) is set as
default in the e-mail address box. Click the
button to transmit the records.
Repeat this procedure until all the conformance tests are complete (IPASIS (passports) and CTSSIS (movements) in this case).
Make sure that the e-mail messages generated by the conformance tests have been transmitted. In a matter of minutes you should receive an e-mail reply from MAFF (sent to your second email address) confirming that you have passed the conformance test. You are now registered fully for notifying BCMS of all births and movements through the purchases, births and disposals facility.
For details on BCMS notification see Purchases, births and disposals