As companies have different underwriting practices, the needed business validations and behaviours vary from company to company. The following describes the options that your company has to influence the business functionality throughout the system. You find these options under the Business tab within your system parameters.
Miscellaneous # The parameter choices listed on the Miscellaneous tab include a variety of options mainly affecting the business functional areas in SICS.
Select the System Administration icon from the SICS Workstation desktop.
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Set up default Entry Code Transformation Terms based on Base Company # Set up the Entry Code Transformation Terms that should be defaulted on an Intra Group Contract, depending on the cedent and the reinsurer of the contract
Find and open a base company Select the Details tab Select Defaulting Rules Select the Entry Code Transformtaion Terms tab Select New from the pop-up menu. You see the Create IGC Entry Code Transform Term Default Setting window Select Cedent Select Entry Code Transform Term Select OK
The Document User Group functionality allows the default destination file path (for produced documents) to be overridden for a single user or group(s) of users. This makes it easier for a group of people working with the same thing to find their produced documents.
Create a document user group
Open System Parameter Maintenance and select the document-handling tab. Ask for edit mode in document user group box. Select create from the right mouse button pop-up menu in the left hand pane of the GUI.
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Entry Code Maintenance icon
Entry Code Maintenance is used to register and inspect entry codes that are used for accounting. For example, in order to manually book or automatically calculate various premium reserves, you must define the necessary booking codes for these premium reserves, e.g. Original Reserves, Financial Premium Reserves and Unearned Premiums. For automatically calculation of these premium reserves you must also define the necessary entry code groups needed as basis for these calculations.
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Tasks and Processes do not automatically escalate even if the activity is “overdue” according to the escalation rule.
In order to process escalations, a batch job must be set up and run through the SICS Scheduler.
The escalation may also be initiated from the Task Management Maintenance / Escalation tab
Escalation Batch Job
Create a new batch job or batch job template with a job step of type ‘Task Escalation’. Set the schedule as appropriate.
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Introduction # One of the main performance problems with migration of data has to do with large number of inserts of new objects into the database using the SQL command interface. The database engine must parse each SQL insert statement. A significant portion (approximately 60%) of the data passed between the client and the server is information to help the parser figure out what kind of data it is, what format it is in, and where it goes.
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The Notification Interface is an extension point for sending event notifications from SICS to external systems.
A custom Java implementation of the interface must implement com.csc.cnu.base.domain.SicsNotificationInterface.
SICS will acquire an instance of the implementation by invoking the no-argument constructor of the class specified in the configuration file. The constructor can throw any kind of checked and non-checked exception. Any exception when invoking the constructor is a sign of mis-configuration. It will be logged in the walkback file and will cause the termination of SICS.
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Setting up Window Positioning in SICS 2.7 and 3.0 # This feature is primarily intended for SICS end-users who have a physical set-up with two screens (monitors) while at the same time using Citrix in seamless mode to launch SICS. Using dual screens requires a special video card in the PC. The Matrox DualHead video card is one example. Although the Matrox DualHead video card comes with software that allows the end-user to select that windows should be opened in either the left-hand or right-hand screen, this feature does not work as intended when running an application such as SICS through Citrix in seamless mode.
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If you want the Revised EPI in the Limit & Premium conditions to reflect the actual booked premium, you can run the Revised EPI Mass Update.
The Revised EPI Mass Update is available in the Mass Update Functions folder on the SICS Desktop. The Mass Update will update Revised EPI on a business section with the total booked premium, if a specified Estimated Item in Period Estimates is set to Complete.
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SAP BI - Bundled Tomcat Upgrade Process # –Global replace E:\TEMP\Install-Files with the correct path on the server.
–Global replace apache-tomcat-9.0.100-windows-x64 and apache-tomcat-9.0.100 as applicable.
–Global replace BOEXI40Tomcat with the Tomcat service name as applicable.
–Global replace E:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\Tomcat with the correct Tomcat folder as applicable.
THIS IS NOT NEEDED FOR BI TOMCAT: Remember to copy sqljdbc jar files in lib folder.
IMPORTANT NOTE: You will need to add the following Java 9 Options if the new Tomcat version gives the error “class org.
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