Generated characteristics are the characteristics that are generated from the active analysis structure of the Market Risk component, and that are used there as limit characteristics.

By using generated characteristics, you are able to define you own additional characteristics (compared to customer-defined characteristics, which are derived from existing limit characteristics).

Generated characteristics are transferred from Market Risk to Limit Management in Customizing under Limit Management ® Generated Characteristics. To do this, you first need to make some settings in the Customizing for Market Risk. You find the settings under the path given above. You can still use the generated characteristics even if you are not using the Market Risk component.

Provided you have transferred the generated characteristics, you are able to use these in all Limit Management functions in the same way as direct characteristics. Note, however, that in financial object maintenance, you do not maintain the values of analysis characteristics in the default risk limit part. Instead, you maintain these values in the screen Maintain Financial Object: General Part, which you access by clicking on the button Analysis (RM) in the application toolbar.

If you want to break down and limit the default risk by profit center, you can generate the characteristic Profit Center in Limit Management.