IRIS 7.13-001 Release Notes

IRIS 7.13-001 Release Notes

SN / Title / Raised By / Note /
300000167 / 3523: Duplicate History Records / Axis Specialty Ltd / Duplicate entries were being written to the history file (USHSREP) under some circumstances when entering outstandings and OCRs. This error has now been corrected.
300000191 / 3538: UKKMREP field KMLODT set to a large negative value / EVEREST REINSURANCE COMPANY / The problem where dates were stored as negative numbers was caused by entering valid dates less than 01/01/1900. This change now ensures all entered dates are greater than or equal to 01/01/1900.
300000248 / 3461: IRIS General: Remove menu items with no sub-menu items / MOMENTUM UNDERWRITING MAN. / When access is not granted to a sub-menu via System Administration, the heading is no longer displayed on the main menu.
300000388 / FLAGS 3008: Policy Input -Renew to Quote / REBUS IS / When a product rule is set to copy ancillaries, it is now possible to 'renew to quote' and 'take up quote to policy'.
300000389 / 3019: Lloyd's - LDEX for IRIS for SCM/USM messages / REBUS IS / Enhancement to IRIS Lloyd's system to enable daily electronic USMs and SCMs to be received from Lloyd's via LDEX instead of the old Intercept method. Note that message file UZUSRMSG has some new messages. An updated version of this exists in OMSSAVUWD and should be shipped to client machines from there. For further information and installation instructions please contact your Account Manager.
300000441 / 3460: Pol I/P - Renew policy to quote - some fields are not copied or are changed / REBUS IS / Fields POMPCD, POMS@O and POMSPC are now being copied forward on Renew To Quote. The "alpha" equivalents of numeric fields - POSGOH, POSLPM, PORLPM - are no longer being copied but are being set to the value of their numeric fields. It should be noted that these "alpha" fields should not be modified via Business Customisation. In some circumstances POQDFG (direct/RI flag) can change from 'D' to 'R'. This happens because two rules have been set up in the product code. To correct this, one of the rules should be deleted.
300000452 / 3510: Navigation:- when policy/claim is locked message should advise locked
information / REBUS IS / When a policy is locked the lock message now displays the application and the User Id locking the policy.
300000509 / 3328: 12.2.22 LPSO RI Transactions / SVB SYNDICATES LTD / This is an enhancement implemented by SVB to allow processing of all RI Transaction amounts from LPSO. Included in this enhancement is a change to data area UTLLRYA1. This now has a new value 'A' to allow the new processing to take place, and as a result the text of the data area has also been changed.
300000559 / 3496: Business Customisation - Read-Only / XL RE SERVICES (UK) LTD / Using Business Customisation , marking fields ATA1XR and ATM1XR for Accounting Terms screen as read only was not working. This has now been corrected.
300000595 / 3407: Policy Input - Inhibit display of ancillary functions / XL RE (BERMUDA) LTD / When copying a policy, an ancillary function is only displayed if a program error is detected on that function or if it is defined as always show/mandatory.
300000598 / 3472: Enquiries-In filtered enquiries / XL RE (BERMUDA) LTD / The problem where an incorrect selection was sometimes being made from a filtered or sorted enquiry results list, has been corrected.
300000614 / 3521: Manual Claims: Field KMENDT / XL RE (BERMUDA) LTD / Entry time and date were zero on some records. This has been fixed and entry time and date are correctly updated.
300006144 / Duplicate bureau premium transactions. / AXIS SPECIALTY LTD / Duplicate Bureau records were being written to one of the statistics files. This has now been resolved..
300006351 / Bx Clgs: Error when processing USM. / LIBERTY SYNDICATE MAN.LTD / An error occurred when a USM message was double-clicked. This has been resolved and USM messages are now processed as expected.
300007025 / Policy: able to take up a Quote more than once / REBUS IS / It should not be possible to take up a quote more than once. However, the system was allowing a quote to be taken up multiple times. This is no longer allowed.
300007049 / Policy: Select screen not clearing data / REBUS IS / The message "policy already exists" was displayed under some circumstances when a new QPM was to be created, even though the policy number was left blank. This has been corrected.
300007767 / Enquiries: Custom Filter Date problems / GREAT LAKES REINSURANCE (UK) P / Within Custom Filters in Enquiries, if a blank date was selected, the system defaulted that selection to today's date. This has now been changed to allow selection of blank dates.
300008530 / Closings: Control Date error when running reverse closing / LIBERTY SYNDICATE MAN.LTD / Option to right-click in a Transaction Enquiry and Reverse Closing now does not create Control Date error. Data Area USARRZA1 needs completing to ensure Accounting Type error does not occur when reversing closings from Transaction Enquiry.
300009203 / View Status Change Screen - Not grey / REBUS IS / Change status of a policy was available for update when policy was opened in view mode. Change status is now read only when policy is opened in view mode.
300009214 / View Peril Zones - Fields not grey / REBUS IS / The amount and percentage columns are now greyed out when viewing policy peril zones.
300010147 / GUI Allocation creating duplicate records / XL RE (BERMUDA) LTD / When a user is in the process of allocating an item, and a second user tries to select the same item, an error message will be displayed and the item will not be included in the second user's session.
300011082 / Policy Input - allow edit of incept date / AXIS SPECIALTY LTD / The rules regarding the population of the First Inception Date field (POFIDT) have been amended so that a change to the Inception Date (POICDT) will be correctly reflected and the rules now allow that date to be changed to an earlier date if required.
300011608 / Policy Input: Declinature type mismatch error / GREAT LAKES REINSURANCE (UK) P / The program did not populate the year when the policy type was Declinature. This has been corrected.
300011639 / Bx Clms: Data corrupted by 9,999,999,999 / LIBERTY SYNDICATE MAN.LTD / Reformat data option for Lloyds Claims correctly translates field values 999999999999999 as Zero.
300011772 / Closings Input: First & Final flag limit / AXIS SPECIALTY LTD / Closing Input now validates Claims First and Final Limit correctly based on Our Share figure
300012145 / Policy Input - narrative being split up / GREAT LAKES REINSURANCE (UK) P / Policy Narrative was splitting up lines of text in a seemingly random fashion. This has now been resolved.
300012435 / Policy Input - AT screen window size / AXIS SPECIALTY LTD / The Accounting Terms window size has been enlarged and made resizable.
300013043 / Wrong value being written to Claims Syndicate ID / XL RE (BERMUDA) LTD / Claims Closing now enables update of Outstanding Claims figures and updates the Claim correctly.
300013408 / Policy Input - Locations liab figs error / ECCLESIASTICAL UNDERWRITING MA / The net liability fields in the Locations screen now contain the correct calculated values. However, if any of the policy fields change (eg exchange rate, written percentage etc) then they will be used for new locations but not displayed if an existing location is edited. In this case the new value will only be used if the particular field is reselected.
300013676 / Policy Input - edit business extension problem / AXIS SPECIALTY LTD / The problem where, in edit, the default values were being reinstated after being changed and saved, has been corrected.
300013926 / Policy Input - Locations signed line problem / ECCLESIASTICAL UNDERWRITING MA / The Written and Signed Line % fields are now copied forward from the main policy screen to the Locations screen.
300013996 / Policy Input: Outwards policy input error / GREAT LAKES REINSURANCE (UK) P / Renewal of outward policies with deductions now works correctly
300014333 / Enquiry - incorrect description displayed / AXIS SPECIALTY LTD / The problem where the broker description was not being displayed correctly (always displaying from the first company where multiple accepting companies had been defined) has now been resolved.
300014808 / Policy Input: Rate on Line incorrect / GREAT LAKES REINSURANCE (UK) P / Functionality, previously in the green screen version of IRIS was not duplicated in the GUI version. Now, when the Stop Loss Flag is ticked, the TSI/Cover is treated as a percentage of Base EPI. Base Written Cover is also calculated as the sum of all three currency columns.
300015010 / Policy Enquiry: Terrorism flag unavailable / HOUSTON CASUALTY LONDON / It is now possible to view Policy Flags and select on Policy Flags in enquiries
300015155 / Business Customisation - field names not being copied / AXIS SPECIALTY LTD / The problem where field labels were not being copied (if changed for a specific product code only) has been resolved.
300015776 / FLAGS -Policy: Narrative status flag not updated. / EVEREST REINSURANCE COMPANY / Underwriting Narrative indicator on status bar now activated and de-activated when narrative added or deleted
300015784 / Claim: Summary Enquiry O/S balances error. / EVEREST REINSURANCE COMPANY / The figures (Claim amounts and movements) written to the claims files are now being correctly displayed in the Claims Summary and Claims Transactions enquiries.
300015789 / Policy Input - problem copying ancillary / AXIS SPECIALTY LTD / The Accounting Terms and Narrative screen data is now being copied forward when a declaration is added to a policy.
300015795 / Policy Input – Accounting Terms screen not displayed / AXIS SPECIALTY LTD / The Accounting Terms screen is now displayed for mandatory entry when taking up a skeleton to a full policy.
300015844 / Bureau Claims List fails when individual transaction selected / LIBERTY SYNDICATE MAN.LTD / Stop the Bureau Claims list from continuing to run in the background once an individual transaction has been selected for processing.
300016270 / Clsgs: Copy - Signing Date/No format. / LIBERTY SYNDICATE MAN.LTD / Signing date/No field (PSRF) has a format of YYMMDDNNNNNVV which should allow characters to be in the VV section to allow for Euro currency transactions.
300016296 / Closings In: System Date as Control Date / XL RE (SINGAPORE) LTD / The program now uses the correct control date on the initial closings screen plus the outstanding claim screen
300016377 / FLAGS -Pol Renew XL risk duplicate flag. / XL RE SERVICES (UK) LTD / Inwards XL policy was crashing when updating the accounting terms as a result of renewing risk. This now works as designed
300016384 / Business Customisation: Automatic rules on ATA1XR . / XL RE SERVICES (UK) LTD / Ensure that the system rule that populates ATM1XR dependant on the Currency ATM1CU triggers correctly the Bus Cust rule that populates ATA1XR from ATM1XR. This has been corrected generically for all hard/soft rules.
300016563 / Duplicate Audit Numbers on ILLEREP / XL RE (BERMUDA) LTD / Duplicate Audit numbers will no longer be created if Users are simultaneously running allocations and cash input .
300016773 / Long broker code field blank on UPPOREP / XL RE (BERMUDA) LTD / The long broker code on the policy file was not being updated by the GUI policy input program. This now works as designed.
300016871 / Enquiry - Bus Ext field code only / AXIS SPECIALTY LTD / A change has been made to enquiries to allow the code, description or both to be displayed for business extension fields associated with lookup tables.
300016908 / Opening Allocation items from enquiry / XL RE (BERMUDA) LTD / A problem previously existed where it was not possible to open an allocations session if the session number was greater than 32767. This has now been corrected.
300016941 / Enq: Auto filter by first key press only / LIBERTY SYNDICATE MAN.LTD / Custom Filter. Typing in letters in quick succession within the custom filter list of fields navigates to the next logical field.
300016943 / Enq: Double click options vanished. / LIBERTY SYNDICATE MAN.LTD / The ability to double-click a custom filter or select fields item in enquiries was lost during the move to the new IRIS architecture. The DblClick event has been added and this functionality now works.
300016944 / Enq: Multiple select History Enquiry. / LIBERTY SYNDICATE MAN.LTD / Due to a previous change, the Multiple History option on the context sensitive menu had become disabled. This prevented running history over multiple policies using Policy List and right-click. This has now been corrected.
300016950 / IRIS Enhancement -Underwriter Reference / ABACUS SYNDICATES LTD / This is an enhancement implemented for Abacus to allow policy reference to be set as defined by Ababcus. Data areas need to set. Please see your Account Manager for details.
300017298 / Store Local Codes in User Folder / REBUS IS / If the Local Path in Regedit is blank, then the path of the Local Database in IRISSettings is now defaulted to C:\Documents and Settings\name\My Documents.
300017479 / Policy Input - duplicate bus extn record / AXIS SPECIALTY LTD / The problem where duplicate records were sometimes being written to the Business Extension data files has been resolved. Appropriate error messages are now displayed if this occurs.
300017480 / Error when displaying Policy Select / EVEREST REINSURANCE COMPANY / A microsoft Internet Explorer hotfix prevented IRIS from running. IRIS now works with the hotfix applied.
300017772 / Enh: Transaction main Enq - new field / REBUS IS / It is now possible to pick and display the Original Bureau Member Ref field (S1OGRF) for the Transaction Main enquiry.
300018158 / Deduction not calculated on Outwards policy / GREAT LAKES REINSURANCE (UK) P / If a Policy had been added via the GUI, but the user tried to enter a closing via the Green screen, an error was occurring within the deductions calculation for outwards policies. A change has been applied to manual closings input on the AS/400. Closings Input now looks at the deductions on a specified outwards policy and regenerates the summary (term zero) records on the Accounting Terms file.