The Accounting and Screening table records may be configured to use wild cards and ranges to facilitate provisioning of accounting and screening data. Wild cards and ranges are used for
The range delimiter is set to “&&”. An SSN range could be set to “3&&5” which includes SSN values 3, 4, and 5 inclusively.
The wild card delimiter “*” is a full-range wild card such that for SSN, replaces range 0&&255.
The Point Codes are value ranges separated with “.”. The point code range “1.3&&5.*” impacts all Point Codes with network component 1, cluster component between 3 and 5 inclusive, with any member component (corresponding zone, cluster, member for ITU).
In addition to the preceding wild cards and ranges, for the Incoming Linkset screening table the following also applies: