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+
+var gr = new GlideRecord('incident');
+gr.initialize();
+gr.short_description = 'New Incident';
+gr.description = 'This is a new incident created by a background script.';
+gr.insert();
+gs.log('New incident created with sys_id: ' + gr.sys_id);