Simulation Engine

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Objectives

After completing this learning unit, you will be able to:

 Understand the concept behind simulation

 Differentiate simulations on an existing arrangement and a new
simulated arrangement
 Create a simulation
 Identify the applications behind the three stages of simulation
 Analyze the changes done to the core for simulation

Slide 2
Simulation Overview

 Simulation refers to the ability to perform a single or a series of

operations in the system and obtaining the outcome without actually
applying these changes to the LIVE system

 The Simulation tool helps in decision making for the customer

 AA will now provide a mechanism where one can simulate

 A new arrangement
 Changes to an existing arrangement

Slide 3
Simulation

 One can

 Simulate an arrangement for a newly created product

 Simulate user activity on an existing arrangement

 Negotiation rules are applied while changing arrangement conditions

 Project new maturity date and payment schedules

 Simulate new arrangement for an existing product with special

negotiations for preferred customers

Slide 4
Simulation Stages

 We have seen that Simulation process is made up of three stages:

 Capture data for simulation

 Define simulation period (Simulation Runner)

 Run simulation service

Slide 5
Simulation Data Capture

 In this stage data is captured from the user

 The capture is done using an application called AA.SIMULATION.CAPTURE

 This application is similar to the application AA.ARRANGEMENT.ACTIVITY

Slide 6
AA.SIM.<PROPERTY.CLASS> Applications

 These applications are similar to AA.ARR.<PROPERTY.CLASS>

applications

 They hold arrangement conditions for a simulated activity or an

arrangement

AA.SIM.PAYMENT.SCHEDULE

AA.SIM.INTEREST

Slide 7
AA.ARRANGEMENT.ACTIVITY & AA.SIMULATION.CAPTURE

Slide 8
AA.SIMULATION.CAPTURE – AUTO.RUN Field

Slide 9
Related Activity

 A new field called RELATED.ACTIVITY has been introduced for

simulation

 This field is used to specify an activity that needs to be triggered

automatically after the current simulated activity

 The activity specified using this field should be a valid entry in

AA.ACTIVITY application

 For an activity, there can be only one related activity

Slide 10
Related Activity

Slide 11
Related Activity

Slide 12
Related Activity

Slide 13
AA.SIMULATION.RUNNER

 The next step after data capture is to simulate the captured data

 The application AA.SIMULATION.RUNNER is used to simulate

 A record in AA.SIMULATION.RUNNER is automatically created on

setting AUTO.RUN field to SIMULATE in the
AA.SIMULATION.CAPTURE application

 Authorising the AA.SIMULATION.RUNNER record generates an OFS

string for the SIMULATE or EXECUTE actions

 The OFS string is stored in the file AA.SIMULATION.SERVICE.LIST,

from where it will be picked up by AA.SIMULATION.SERVICE for
further processing.

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AA.SIMULATION.RUNNER

Slide 15
AA.SIMULATION.RUNNER

Slide 16
AA.SIMULATION.RUNNER

Slide 17
AA.SCHEDULED.ACTIVITY$SIM

 The $SIM file of AA.SCHEDULED.ACTIVITY application holds the

scheduled activities generated for a simulation

 The records from this file is later moved to the

AA.SCHEDULED.ACITIVITY’s live file when the simulation is executed
(made live)

Slide 18
Points to Ponder

 Overrides are accepted by default during simulation

 The AA.SIMULATION.RUNNER record will hold complete information

about the activities that have been performed on executing the
simulation

 The same simulation runner record can be amended for further

simulations

 If ad-hoc activities are to be added, the date on which the activity had
to be run should be specified, also RUN.ACTIVITY field should be set
to YES

Slide 19
AA.SIMULATION.RUNNER - Authorise

AASIMR0900705259J3~AASIM0900700525936~20090107~AA.ARRANGEMENT.ACTIVI
TY,/I/PROCESS//0/,//GB0010001////1/AASIMR0900705259J3,AAACT090070052
5F87,ARRANGEMENT:1:1="AA09007F3DCW",ACTIVITY:1:1="LENDING-CHANGE-
PENALTYINT",EFFECTIVE.DATE:1:1="20090107",CUSTOMER:1:1="100300",PROD
UCT:1:1="PERSONAL.LOAN",CURRENCY:1:1="USD",INITIATION.TYPE:1:1="USER
",PROPERTY:1:1="PENALTYINT",PROPERTY:2:1="REPAYMENT.SCHEDULE",FIELD.
NAME:1:1="MARGIN.RATE:1:1",FIELD.NAME:2:1="ACTUAL.AMT:1:1",FIELD.NAM
E:2:2="BILL.TYPE:1:1",FIELD.VALUE:1:1=".3",FIELD.VALUE:2:1="19.86",F
IELD.VALUE:2:2="PAYMENT",SIM.RUN.REF:1:1="AASIMR0900705259J3",~USER~
LENDING-CHANGE-PENALTYINT

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AA.SIMULATION.SERVICE

 This service does the actual job of simulation and execution of

simulation

 It stores the data in the required files, like the $SIM files and
F.SIMULATION.DETAILS

 It also updates the AA.SIMULATION.RUNNER record with the status of

the simulation, like “COMPLETED – SUCCESSFULLY” or
“COMPLETED – ERROR” etc

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AA.SIMULATION.SERVICE

Slide 22
Execute Simulation

AASIMR0900705259J3~AASIM0900700525936~20090107~AA.ARRANGEMENT.ACTIVI
TY,/I/PROCESS//0/,//GB0010001/////,AAACT090070017NJ9W,ARRANGEMENT:1:
1="AA09007F3DCW",ACTIVITY:1:1="LENDING-CHANGE-
PENALTYINT",EFFECTIVE.DATE:1:1="20090107",CUSTOMER:1:1="100300",PROD
UCT:1:1="PERSONAL.LOAN",CURRENCY:1:1"USD",INITIATION.TYPE:1:1="USER"
,PROPERTY:1:1="REPAYMENT.SCHEDULE",FIELD.NAME:1:1="ACTUAL.AMT:1:1",F
IELD.NAME:1:2"BILL.TYPE:1:1",FIELD.VALUE:1:1="19.86",FIELD.VALUE:1:2
="PAYMENT",SIM.RUN.REF:1:1="AASIMR0900705259J3",~USER~LENDING-
CHANGE-PENALTYINT

Slide 23
AA.ARRANGEMENT.SIM

Slide 24
AA.ACTIVITY.HISTORY.SIM

Slide 25
$SIM Files

 A new file suffix that has been introduced in T24

 It is used to store all the simulated records

Slide 26
ACTIVITY.PRESENTATION

Least Specific Most Specific

Property Class Property Activity

Slide 27
Simulations and ACTIVITY.PRESENTATION

Slide 28
SIM.READ

 This routine is responsible of fetching the simulated version of a record

 It does the following

 Checks if there is a $SIM file for the record

 If yes
It checks if the simulation record exists
If yes, it reads from the simulated record

 If not, it reads from F.SIMULATION.DETAILS

 If the routine is not able to find a simulation record in both the $SIM files
and F.SIMULATION.DETAILS, it reads from the LIVE file by calling F.READ

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I_AA.SIM.COMMON

 A new insert file has been introduced for Simulations

 It holds simulation related common variables

 Few variables are listed below

Variable Purpose
aaSimCapture flag for simulation capture mode
aaSimRef AA.SIMULATION.RUNNER Id

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OFS.BULK.MANAGER

 There is a small change that has been done to OFS.BULK.MANAGER for

simulation purpose

 It checks of the incoming request is a simulated request

 If yes, an after image of the transaction is captured

 The current transaction is aborted

 A call to LOAD.SIMULATION.UPDATES is made within a transaction block

Slide 31
AA.SIMULATION.MONITOR

Slide 32
Simulation Engine – A Review

In this learning unit, you learnt about the working of Simulation Engine in
AA

You will now be able to:

 Understand the concept behind simulation

 Differentiate simulations on an existing arrangement and a new
simulated arrangement
 Create a simulation
 Identify the applications behind the three stages of simulation
 Analyze the changes done to the core for simulation

Slide 33
 Thank You

TEMENOS EDUCATION CENTRE

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