Chain Jobs

The jobs are listed alphabetically in the table below and the last column indicates the location in the Batch Catalog. Click the appropriate name in the Chain Job Name column to learn more about each job.  For detailed information on the jobs (such as when to run, input, output, and process parameters) refer to the associated run sheet in the following user guides: CGI Advantage Financial - General Accounting Run Sheets, CGI Advantage Financial - Utilities Run Sheets, CGI Advantage Financial - System Assurance Run Sheets, and CGI Advantage Financial - Administration Utilities Run Sheets.

Job Name

Description

Batch Catalog Section

Annual Close

The Annual Close chain facilitates the movement of nominal and real account balances from an accounting fiscal year that is being closed to the subsequent accounting fiscal year. Journal Vouchers are created to close out a year in Accounting Period 99 and establish balances in the subsequent year in Accounting Period 0.

General Accounting

Clearing Account Maintenance

The Clearing Accounting Maintenance chain facilitates the clearing of Due To and Due From accounts through Cash with a Journal Voucher.

General Accounting

Future Transaction Trigger

The Future Transaction Trigger (FDT) chain creates all transactions set to be triggered (reoccurring, reversals, and reclassifications).

Utilities

Journal Ledger Archiving

The Journal Ledger Archiving chain facilitates the archival of records from many types of journals and ledgers to maintain a production environment of a manageable size.

Utilities

Matured Investment Process

The Matured Investment Process chain selects records from the Investment Activity Journal (INVACTV) that have a Maturity Date less than or equal to the current date and generates an investment (INVEST) transaction to record the sale or redemption of the investment.

Investment

New Year Table Initialization (NYTI)

The New Year Table Initialization (NYTI for short) populates many reference pages with a new year’s worth of records based on a previous year.

Utilities

Pre Annual Close Sweep

The Pre Annual Close Sweep chain reads a specified input ledger (e.g. LDGR_FYDAD) for accounting activity in a prior fiscal year which should be swept out of that year and into the subsequent fiscal year before an Annual Close is performed against the prior year.  To perform that sweep, the chain creates Journal Voucher (JV) transactions.  Only one instance of the chain can be running at any given time.  

General Accounting

System Assurance 1

The System Assurance 1 chain compares activity recorded in an input ledger, journal, and posting line catalog with the budget line amounts updated directly by accounting transactions.  The assurance can be run as a chain or as individual batch jobs by a job scheduler for improved performance.

System Assurance

System Assurance 2

The System Assurance 2 chain compares activity recorded in an input ledger, journal, and posting line catalog with certain amounts on the Accounting Control Pages: ITD Balance Sheet Detail, Cash Balance Detail, and Fund Balance Detail.  The assurance can be run as a chain or as individual batch jobs by a job scheduler for improved performance.

System Assurance

System Assurance 12

The System Assurance 12 chain recalculates all budget controls from budget line data and compares those results with records on the Budget Constraint Amount table. The assurance can be run as a chain or as individual batch jobs by a job scheduler for improved performance.

System Assurance