Release 1487 enhances the system to provide support for the
ScholarShare college savings program administered by TIAA-CREF.
Enrollment transactions will be passed through the nightly IVR/Benefits/Web
feed to be processed in our PP*NTA jobs, and the deduction amounts
will be passed in a new, separate batch in the Surepay/NACHA file.
Other features of the release are:

- A new DB2 table, PPPDDG, in the EDB database to store employee
   id number, GTN number, transit routing number, account number,
   account type, and Surepay bank table key.  This is a generalized
   table that could be used for other types of deductions in the future.
   The Detail Design document says, "Initially there will be no online
   access to the new Employee Direct Deposit GTN table data.
   Existing online functions will have access to the G-Balance for
   update, and G-Balance and Y-Balance for inquiry."

- The addition of a direct deposit indicator to both the regular GTN
   table and the GTN history table.

- New gross-to-net number 600 for ScholarShare deductions.

- A new 'DG' file maintenance transaction for the PPPDDG
   data elements (but not the deduction amounts).  Note that the
   release letter says "No attempts to manually enroll employees
   in ScholarShare should be made".

- New ScholarShare consistency edit program PPEC146.

- An enhancement to the existing PPP430 NACHA file creation
   process to create a specialized type of batch containing
   employee-specific account numbers.  Until now, GTN-type entries
   only specified the organization (e.g., Fidelity) account number.

Two incidental error report fixes are included in r1487:

- In the rare event that an appointment or distribution has a DB2
   low value date (01/01/0001), program PPIIVR will convert it to the
   Sybase equivalent low date value.  Similarly, DB2 high value dates
   will be converted to Sybase equivalents.

- The edit in PPCB02 that issued error message 01-954
   (BUT AGENCY FEE UDUE BASE MUSTN'T BE BLANK
   IF CALC 15 & VICE VERSA) is modified to not apply the rule to
   uncovered entries.  The result for the campuses is that a bunch of
   error messages in PPP0198 reports will no longer appear.
   (ASUCLA and Hastings are not currently getting these errors.)

TABLE UPDATES
- gross-to-net - to add the ScholarShare deduction number 600.
   We'll need a priority number from each site for the new entry.
- data element - to add new fields and define the layout of the
   DG transaction
- messages
- code translation
- routine definition
- processing group

IMPLEMENTATION

   R1487 is date-mandated to be installed no later than Monday June 2nd,
in other words, install it in May.  This puts it ahead of r1486 in the queue,
which is also date-mandated but can not be installed until after all
computes for May are complete.  Daily ScholarShare enrollments
will not begin before June 2nd.

May we have your approval to install r1487?  We also need your choice
of priority number for GTN 600.

   bvb