4.2 Set up Bulk Import Clients

This topic explains to set up Bulk Import Clients.

The client from whom bulk information needs to be imported must be introduced into the Oracle FLEXCUBE Investor Servicing (FCIS) system.

1. Identify the external client (called the bulk client) in the system by providing a profile for the same. You can do this using the Bulk Clients Maintenance screen.
2. Access this screen through the Bulk Clients Defaults menu Browser.
3. Set up the information that would be used as default for import of any information from the bulk client. If the import information files from the client do not contain the required data, then the default information maintained for the bulk client in the FCIS system is used to furnish the same.
4. Use Bulk Clients Defaults Maintenance screen to set up the default information for a bulk client.
5. Access this screen through the Bulk Clients Defaults option in the Browser. Click New to enter the details.
6. When you set up the default information for a bulk client in the Bulk Client Default Maintenance screen, the following considerations must be borne in mind.

   Note:

   • If any mandatory information required in the FCIS system is not found either in the import hand off file, or the defaults maintained for the client, the entire import fails and the import records are rejected.
   • Each file that needs to be imported from the bulk client into the system for all the information set has a specified format. If the file is formatted in any other way than prescribed in the required format, then the import will fail and all the import records will be rejected.
7. Upload the prescribed formats for the hand-off files from the bulk client.
   Refer topics Appendix B – Upload File Formats B of the Upload Format User Manual for the formats that are to be uploaded . Refer the same for complete information about the file formats.

   Note:

   • The default information that you maintain for a SMDPARAM bulk client in the Bulk Clients Defaults Maintenance screen contains the defaults for all the different types of data imports – unit holder new accounts, information change, transactions, unit holder income distribution setup, standing instructions, transaction load overrides, fund prices, Unit Holder Deal uploads, broker details, check book requests, fund rules and redemption checks.
   • When the import of data is performed by the system, the validations for the imported data are performed in the same manner, as they are applicable when you set up the default information for the bulk client in the Bulk Client Defaults Maintenance screen.