Release 1517, just issued this afternoon, is of immediate concern to the
campuses with retro processes underway.  Only one program, PPP930,
is modified, and the reason is to correct a problem with retro payments
based on START DOS codes.

The way I understand it is that PPP930 has always placed a minus sign
on the RA transactions it generates when the total gross amount, or hours,
or pay rate, from the original pay entry in the PAR was less than zero.
It turns out that due to the inherent negative nature of START DOS codes,
representing a reduction in normal work hours, related PAR entries were
negative and thus RA transactions related to START also were coded
with a minus sign.

The problem arose when those RA transactions were then processed in a
compute.   The compute would look at the DOS table and say, ah ha!,
this is a special START DOS code, and based on its attributes, I will
reverse the sign.  The combination of the negative sign in the transaction
created by PPP930 and the reversal of the sign in the compute, turned it
into a positive dollar amount, which is inappropriate.

R1517 adds logic to PPP930 to identify START DOS codes by comparing
the value in the PAR to the list in the CPWSTART copymember, and,
when found, blanks out minus signs in RA transactions.

There are no table updates.

Given the retro processing that is underway and scheduled for Davis,
Riverside, and Santa Barbara, installation of r1517 is extremely urgent
for them.  Santa Cruz will need it within about a week.

May we have your ok to install at your earliest convenience?  The
consequence of not implementing the fix in a timely manner could be
to overpay some employees.

Fyi, the release letter indicates that it is possible to manually edit the
sign in RA transactions that have already been created but have not
yet been processed in computes.  Please let us know if there are any
such transactions that you would like us to examine and fix.

   bvb