This doesn't seem relevant to Hastings, but go ahead and install,
thanks.

> Release 1502 consists of a welcome change to merit roster production
> and a fix to the PPTCTUTL program in response to an error report.
>
> - Back in 1996, HRMI reorganized title codes from four groupings (staff,
>    APS, MAP, and executive) into two groupings (PSS and MSP).  As a
>    consequence, the selection of employees for merit rosters in program
>    PPP670 was changed to be based on personnel program codes 1 or 2,
>    representing PSS and MSP groups respectively.
>
>    Back then, and for some time thereafter, this was a problem because
>    the staff and APS employees, both of which were folded into PSS,
>    weren't always on the merit increase schedule.  Campuses wanted
>    to select one population or the other for their rosters, but were no longer
>    able to identify them through personnel program code.  To address this
>    need, PPP670 was modified such that if an effective month of October
>    was entered on the spec card, it assumed the target population was
>    APS only, and it excluded staff employees from October rosters.
>
>    Over time, this distinction between staff and APS has faded away at
>    campuses and, with the many merit processes having an effective month
>    of October, has actually caused difficulties.  It has become common at
>    many sites to enter a 'fake' effective month on the spec card, just to
>    enable them to pick up the full population of employees for October merit
>    increases.  The most recent example has been the CX merits effective on
>    October 2002.
>
>    Now, in r1502, the special code in PPP670 dealing with 'former APS'
>    employees is removed, and it will no longer be necessary to play games
>    with the spec card month value.  Note: Santa Cruz previously had local
>    modifications to do the same thing, and these will now be replaced with
>    Base code.
>
> - The other change in r1502 is small.  The PPTCTUTL title code utility
>    program selects data from the DB2 TSB table, but neglected to place the
>    TSB-MERIT-BASED value in the linkage area to make it available for
>    calling programs to use.  That problem is now corrected.
>
> There are no table updates.
>
> May we have your ok to install?
>
>    bvb



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