Merative Cúram Support Newsletter – December 2023
As a valued Merative™ client, we hope that you find the following Cúram newsletter useful. The information is intended to help you stay up-to-date with the latest feature, maintenance, and administration updates for the Cúram application. The newsletter contains links to Cúram technical support documents and supplemental information, such as release notes or What's New for different releases. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to open a case with Cúram Support.
In the spotlight
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Merative ™ Social Program Management is now Cúram ™ by Merative™. Look out for upcoming releases under our new name.
You can see the new product name and logo across the following locations in the 8.1.1 release:
• Application login and logout screens
• Application banners
Accessibility improvements - Our continued focus on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) indicate a commitment to making Cúram web content more accessible:
• 1.3.1 - Info and Relationships
• 1.3.5 - Identify Input Purpose
• 1.4.12 - Text Spacing
• 2.1.1 - Keyboard
• 2.4.2 - Page Titles
• 2.4.6 - Headings and Labels
• 4.1.2 - Name, Role, Value
• 3.2.2 - On Input page shouldn't change
• 4.1.1 - Avoid Validation and Parsing errors
Improved user experience for dropdown menus:
• Options that start with the characters that are entered are listed, for example, entering 'i' displays Iceland.
• For options that contain more than one word, words that start with the entered characters are then listed, for example, entering ‘i’ displays Cayman Island.
• Options that contain the entered characters are then listed, for example, entering 'i' displays Albania.
Introducing Person Evidence Management:
• Person Evidence Management provides a new approach to managing person evidence. Caseworkers can now use Person Evidence Management to maintain evidence centrally at the person level. A complete lifecycle of evidence management is provided at the person level, allowing caseworkers to interact with person evidence by using an evidence workspace. This workspace provides an evidence dashboard and active and in-edit evidence lists
• The evidence that is associated with a person is not linked to a specific case. This independence allows caseworkers to access the latest version of evidence and verification statuses without needing to navigate across multiple integrated cases. Efficiency is enhanced by providing caseworkers with a dedicated space to manage evidence that is related to individuals, therefore improving accessibility and ensuring that the most up-to-date information is available without caseworkers being constrained by case-specific access permissions.
New JMX application properties:
• Enable JMX Statistics Report Per Batch
• Statistics Output Timer Period For Batch Programs - Timer Period
• By enabling the application property Enable JMX Statistics Report Per Batch, a JMX report is generated at the end of each batch program. By setting the application property Statistics Output Timer Period For Batch Programs Timer Period, a different JMX timer period can be specified for batch programs only. All JMX reports now include total and free memory information in the OperationalStats section
Pre-authorization sharing:
• Pre-authorization sharing is designed to facilitate the sharing of evidence within an application before authorization. This feature is particularly valuable in scenarios where applications might experience delays while waiting for all outstanding verifications to be completed before authorization. Allowing the sharing of evidence prior to authorization enables timely access to verified data especially when it relates to an individual's updated circumstances which can be important for the agency's operations elsewhere in the system.
Open-source software updates:
• In this release, we completed the centralization of our open-source software to help streamline development workflows. Included in this effort was the updating of over 40 open-source software libraries in the Cúram application. These libraries included multiple updates to Lucene, Jackson, and GraphQL. By regularly updating Cúram's open-source software (OSS), the system stays current with the latest features, patches, and security updates.
• This not only enhances the overall performance and security of the system, but also makes it easier to incorporate and adapt to changes in the future. In the Third Party Updates section of the Release Notes, Cúram provides detailed information about changes, improvements, and updates to various open-source libraries that are integrated into the Cúram open-source software ecosystem. For a full list of these changes, see the Third Party Updates section in the Release Notes.
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Asset updates
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Universal Access Responsive Web Application 6.2.2 - released on December 14, 2023
• The Learn more links on the Benefit Selection page are changed to provide description of the links' purpose
• Improvements to the Section Navigation current indicator
• Fix applied to the console log warning for the LanguageDropdownComponent
Cúram Design System 6.2.2 - released on December 14, 2023
• The <Card /> component is changed to remove an unnecessary aria attribute
• Fix applied to IEG Help buttons so screen readers do not read the hidden help text
when the button is collapsed
• Improvements to the OverflowMenu current indicator
• Improvement to the FlexContainer layout component
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Planning
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Cúram Enhancement Request - Aha! Ideas
We invite you to shape the future of Merative. Please submit your ideas and enhancement requests.
Evidence sharing rules XML samples
XML Samples guidelines for using sharing rules XML schema to map logically equivalent evidence types.
Cúram Prerequisites
Review the supported operating systems, prerequisites, and supported software to ensure compatibility.
Cúram Third Party Prerequisites Policy Change
Beginning with the release of Cúram v7; and for all future releases of Cúram solutions; we will only define support for the third party products for which our solutions have a direct dependency.
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Security
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Cúram Security Bulletins:
Support login is required to access published security vulnerabilities, which include the associated Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
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Fixes
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Cúram 8.1.1.0 Release Notes
Cúram 8.1.1.0 Release Notes, released on December 8, 2023.
Cúram 8.1.0.0 iFix 1 Release Notes
Cúram 8.1.0.0 iFix 1 Release Notes, released on November 30, 2023.
Cúram 8.0.3.0 iFix 2 Release Notes
Cúram 8.0.3.0 iFix 2 Release Notes, released on December 19, 2023.
Cúram 8.0.2.0 iFix 15 Release Notes
iFix 13 for Cúram 8.0.2.0 iFix 15 Release Notes, released on December 19, 2023.
Cúram 7.0.11.0 iFix 13 Release Notes
iFix 12 for Cúram 7.0.11.0 iFix 13 Release Notes, released on November 24, 2023.
Cúram iFixes and Software Downloads:
Download iFixes and Merative Software releases for Cúram here.
Cúram Release Notes
Access to previously released Cúram Release Notes can be accessed here.
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Documentation
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Cúram Documenation
Product documentation, release information, and technical support articles for Cúram
Cúram Documentation (PDF Library)
Production documentation, release information, and technical support articles in PDF format
Cúram Release notes
Cúram Release notes information about new / updated features, resolved issues, and known issues
Cúram on Kubernetes
Production documentation for Cúram on Kubernetes
Cúram UI Addon Development Environment
This open source repository provides a React JavaScript development environment for Cúram. You can now extend UIM by using React, IBM® Carbon Design System, GraphQL, and Apollo Client
Cúram UI Upgrade Helper
Use the UI Upgrade Helper to help you to upgrade the Cúram UI from version 7 to version 8
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Education
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Cúram Education Offerings
Listing of Cúram courses with the abstract for each lesson and exercise
Cúram Caseworker Productivity Enablement (video)
Deep dive video presentation on caseworker enablement
Cúram Education (video)
Informative Merative video about the benefits of Cúram training
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Support Resources
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To request login access to the Cúram Support / Software Download portal:
Login access is required to download Cúram software
Collecting Data to troubleshoot a Cúram issue:
Information to be collected, in order to troubleshoot issues encountered while using Cúram
Open a Cúram Case:
Engage Cúram Support and open a ticket
View an existing Cúram Case
In order to view previously opened Cúram support tickets, click here
View an existing Cúram Known Issue (Defect):
Search for previously opened Cúram Known Issues
Cúram Performance Tuning
This guide provides a quick-start and guidelines to tuning Cúram in a production or production-like environment in both traditional Cúram deployments (VMs or bare-metal) and Kubernetes environments.
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