Technical Development (Cúram) – Answers

If you are not Certified then say "I am not Curam Certified but preparing for certification and going through Curam Server,Modeling, Client and PPT provided by IBM. Also,along with this i am doing sample exercise provided in the guide.If You are certified then you have to reply as "Yes, I have IBM Curam Developer Certification.I gone through various book and ppt like IBM Curam Server Guide, IBM Curam Modeling Guide, IBM Curam Client Guide and PPT part 1 and 2.Also, i completed exercise which was available in the ppt provided by ibm.”

• Medicare is a federal program that provides health coverage if you are 65 or older or have a severe disability, no matter your income.
• Medicaid is a state and federal program that provides health coverage if you have a very low income.
• If you are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid (dual eligible), you can have both. They will work together to provide you with health coverage and lower your costs.

Government benefits provided to eligible low-income people for buying food, issued in the form of an electronic benefit transfer card. Food stamps were formerly issued in the form of paper stamps or coupons.

What is SNAP?

SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, is the program formerly known as food stamps. It is a federal nutrition program that helps you stretch your food budget and buy healthy food.

SNAP benefits can be used to purchase food at grocery stores, convenience stores, and some farmers’ markets and co-op food programs.

SNAP benefits are given to you each month on a plastic card called an EBT (electronic benefits transfer) card, which works like a debit card. Paper coupons are no longer used.

SNAP is a nutrition program. It is not a welfare cash assistance program (which is called TAFDC). You do not have to be receiving TAFDC to get SNAP — these are separate programs.

SNAP is a federal entitlement program. This means anyone who is eligible will receive benefits. You will not be taking away benefits from someone else if you apply.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) oversees SNAP at the federal level. In Massachusetts, you apply for benefits through the state agency that administers the program, called the Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA).

Most households must meet both the gross and net income tests, but a household with an elderly person or a person who is receiving certain types of disability payments only has to meet the net income test. Gross income means a household’s total, non-excluded income, before any deductions have been made. Net income means gross income minus allowable deductions.

Households, except those noted, that have income over the amounts listed below cannot get SNAP benefits.

FPL chart is provided by Federal to decide household income, please find sample chart as given below

 IBM Curam is having a lot of modules, Case Management is one of them. It is very important module and acting as central part of Curam. Using this module Caseworker maintain all communication between participant and social enterprise organization. it is just like a folder which is having papers related to particular household and their needs. There are many types of case available in Curam OOTB as given below –

• Application Case
• Integrated Case
• Product Delivery Case
• Issue Cases 

Please follow guide for more deep information.

Mass Change is also similar to Application Engine, as far as its end results—updating the database. However, unlike Application Engine, Mass Change generates SQL for you. Also, Mass Change definitions contain no processing logic.

You can use Mass Change to:

• Perform high-volume, set oriented transactions.

• Copy data from table to table.

• Archive table data.

• Perform transactions not normally supported

Reply based on your experience. if you worked on CER then say Yes and explain about CER and it’s type and functionality. if you don’t know anything about CER then go through the reference manual and post in this website to understand CER.

Cúram Express Rules are used to perform business calculations. A development environment for authoring and testing Cúram express rule sets is available. Rules can be executed at run time. The CER editor is a tool for business and technical users to view create and manage CER rule sets.

The UIM Generator tool provides a user interface for automatically generating a UIM page for a particular server interface.

To start the UIM Generator tool:

1. Open a command prompt and change to the <client-dir> folder.
2. Run builduimgen .
3. The first time you run the UIM Generator you will be asked to locate a ServerAccessBeans.xml file. This file is generated by theclient target and can be found in the <client-dir>/build folder.

Once the UIM Generator has started, you should see a screen containing the following:

• A File menu containing options to view your current configuration settings and to exit the application.
• A tree on the left hand side which lists all the server interfaces in the application.
• Two options, Display Phase and Action Phase, which determine when the selected server interface is called in the generated page.
• A Make Page button which generates the UIM for the current settings.

To generate a page perform the following:

1. Select the interface you wish to test from the tree (e.g. Register-Person.read).
2. Select the phase in which the interface should be called, for example, Action. Action phase pages call the interface when the page is submitted. Data can be entered for each input field and a button is generated to submit the page.
3. Click the Make Page button and you will be asked to specify a location for the generated UIM. You can change the default name if you wish. The location should be in the appropriate component folder of your application.

A UIM file and a properties file are generated. The labels for each field are given defaults based on the name of the server interface property associated with the field.

 There are many important entity available in curam like

• CASEHEADER
• PERSON
• PROSPECTPERSON
• EMPLOYER
• CASEPARTICIPANTROLE
• FINANCIALCOMPONENT
• INSTRUCTIONLINEITEM

Please explain about above entities.

Yes, I am conformable with Curam Data Model as i worked on many projects and every project required to understand its data model.

We can achieve above scenario using CONDITION element. Please find Description as given below –

<SERVER_INTERFACE
    CLASS="CaseDetermination"
    NAME="DISPLAY"
    OPERATION="viewDecisionDisplayRulesCategoryXML"
  />
...
  <CLUSTER
    NUM_COLS="1"
    SHOW_LABELS="FALSE"
    TITLE="Cluster.Title.Eligibility"
  >


    <CONDITION>
      <IS_FALSE
        EXTENDED_PATH=
"/DecisionDetails/BasicCase/isEligibleTimeline"
        NAME="DISPLAY"
        PROPERTY="xmlData"
      />
    </CONDITION>
...

You can find example if you are having OOTB code installed in your system, please find sample example below –

 Please read below given post –

IBM Curam Rate Table Configuration and Uses

 We can achieve this behavior Audit Fields option available at entity level in modeling. We can enable auditing at entity level as well as operation level.

1. Entity Level:

If Audit Fields (Entity Level) option is switched on then the available pre-configured audit fields will be automatically added to this struct.

This option should be enabled if the struct class is being used as a write operation of an entity which also hasAudit Fields switched on.

2. Operation Level:

Table-level auditing is enabled by activating the database table-level auditing option for an operation. This causes the generated Data Access Layer to record audit information for an operation. The type of audit information recorded depends on whether optimistic locking is switched on or off for the operation. If optimistic locking is switched on, the audit information includes the actual differences between the new and old versions of the record. Otherwise, it only includes information about the SQL operation invoked.
The following information is written to the audit table:

• Date and time – The date and time of the transaction.
• User ID – The ID of the user who invoked the transaction.
• Table name – The name of the database table that was modified.
• Program name – The FID of the function that invoked the transaction.
• Transaction type – Indicates whether the transaction was online, batch, or deferred.
• Operation type – Indicates whether the operation was create, read, update, or delete.
• Key info – The key that was provided to this operation. Note that this may identify one or many records.
• Details of changed data – These details are logged in an XML format and include the names of the fields referenced by the details struct; the field types; the new version of the field data; and, if optimistic locking is enabled, the old version of the field data.

Optimistic locking used at entity and operation level.

The pessimistic locking model prevents simultaneous updates to records. As soon as one user starts to update a record, a lock is placed on it. Other users who attempt to update this record are informed that another user has an update in progress. The other users must wait until the first user has finished committing their changes, thereby releasing the record lock. Only then can another user make changes based on the previous user’s changes.

An advantage of the pessimistic locking model is that it avoids the issue of conflict resolution by preventing conflicts. Updates are serialized and each subsequent update starts with the committed record changes from the previous user.

Pessimistic locking is a useful approach when subsequent updates can be delayed until a previous update is completed. This usually implies that updates occur in a short time interval.

User Interface Meta-data (UIM) format used to specify the contents of the Cúram web application client pages.

With IEG, information is gathered interactively by displaying a script of questions that a user can provide answers to. Questions are only displayed if they are consistent with the user’s previous answers so that the user is only required to provide answers relevant to his or her needs and situation. The configuration data that is contained within this business object is stored on the following entities:

• IEGSCRIPTINFO
• IEGSCRIPTRELS
• APPRESOURCE

 Yes, I worked on intelligent evidence gathering (IEG). IEG is used for screening of eligibility using question and answer script. it is an xml file with pre defined schema and pre define api. it is using IEG Player to execute the ieg script. Below are the main tables where ieg related files store –

• IEGSCRIPTINFO
• IEGSCRIPTRELS
• APPRESOURCE

We can Say in breif –

 IEG1: The Classic Intelligent Evidence Gathering is called IEG1 which was used earlier version of Curam.

IEG2: Latest version of IEG called IEG2 and it developed using IEG1 as a base version with different approach.

We will provide more information once framed.

Improve citizen service, organizational efficiency and social program effectiveness

Cúram Universal Access is a software solution that enables governments to provide citizens a single point of access to all social programs and services for which they are eligible. Universal Access connects citizens to programs, streamlines applications for those programs and reduces administrative work, allowing case workers to spend more time interacting with citizens.

• Citizen-centric service delivery – Provides access to screening and benefit applications anywhere, anytime.
• Increased organizational efficiency – Streamlines the application process and reduces application backlog.
• Quick time to value – Installs and implements in a fraction of the time of other offerings.
• Platform for the future – Maximizes the value of existing assets and creates a road map for future modernization.

To link the various types of activity together in a workflow process, transitions are used. Their primary function is to dictate the order in which activities are executed. There are three types of transitions in a process definition. They determine how branch points and synchronization points relate to each other. Branch points can be of type XOR (Choice) or AND (Parallel). Corresponding branch and synchronization points must be of the same type. A branch point of type XOR indicates that the first transition that can be followed will be. A branch point of type AND indicates that all transitions that can be followed will be.

Transitions can optionally have a condition to decide whether or not a given transition will be followed. A condition is a list of expressions that perform logical operations.

Need to check, please provide if know the answer.

I worked on various documentation in my previous project, please find it below –

• TDD: Technical Design Documents to document all technical artifacts which was required to develop new/updated functionality.
• Fit/Gap Docs: This documents we used to document gap between requirement and Curam available functionality.
• FDD: Sometime i got work to update and create new functional design document which contain functional information.

To start the UIM Generator tool:

1. Open a command prompt and change to the <client-dir> folder.
2. Run builduimgen .
3. The first time you run the UIM Generator you will be asked to locate a ServerAccessBeans.xml file. This file is generated by theclient target and can be found in the <client-dir>/build folder.

Once the UIM Generator has started, you should see a screen containing the following:

• A File menu containing options to view your current configuration settings and to exit the application.
• A tree on the left hand side which lists all the server interfaces in the application.
• Two options, Display Phase and Action Phase, which determine when the selected server interface is called in the generated page.
• A Make Page button which generates the UIM for the current settings.

To generate a page perform the following:

1. Select the interface you wish to test from the tree (e.g. Register-Person.read).
2. Select the phase in which the interface should be called, for example, Action. Action phase pages call the interface when the page is submitted. Data can be entered for each input field and a button is generated to submit the page.
3. Click the Make Page button and you will be asked to specify a location for the generated UIM. You can change the default name if you wish. The location should be in the appropriate component folder of your application.

A UIM file and a properties file are generated. The labels for each field are given defaults based on the name of the server interface property associated with the field.

DataStoreEntity : Store Data in XML format based on entity like person, relation, income etc.

DataStoreEntityRole: This table store relationship between entities like Person entity belongs to which application entity.

Application creation will use data from these tables to generate evidences.

We configure implementation class to interface mapping in Module.java file.

Example

public Class Module extends com.google.inject.AbstractModule{

@Override

protected void configure(){

bind(AIRSample.class).to(AIRSampleImpl.class)

}

}

Also, We need configure this class entry in MODULECLASSNAME.dmx file –

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<table name="MODULECLASSNAME">

   <column name="moduleClassName" type="text"/>

   <row>

     <attribute name="moduleClassName">

        <value>curam.sample.AIRSampleImpl</value>

    </attribute>

   </row>

</table>