Release Notes: Item 1307-01

2013-2014 Verification (with User Guide updates)

This release item modifies the 2013-14 Verification program to allow it to be invoked by the ADD Load process for previously verified students (students selected for verification, with a non-blank Verification Status and a Reverification flag not set to manual), to ensure that the Current Transaction and Verified Transaction are kept in synch. (If the Verified Transaction is not updated when a subsequent ISIR is loaded for a student who has already passed verification, COD may reject the student as being paid on a previous transaction when federal loan and grant disbursements are reported.)

A one-time utility program (WCVCN14B) is also provided to update the verified transaction for students previously processed, when the ADD Load wasn’t doing the verification. The program reads through the Aid Year file and performs the Verification calculation for all 2013-2014 students who are verified and have a Verified Transaction number that is less than the Current Transaction number. A list of the recalculated students is reported in Print file 3. As most of the transaction number mismatches resulted from the loading of correction ISIRs that simply confirmed corrections sent by the institution when the student was initially verified, we anticipate that most of the reported students will show "PASS - EXACT MATCH" as a result of the Verification recalculation.

Implementation Notes

• This item is required at all client sites.
• Load the new and updated modules from the SYSTRANS input file in the attached zip file. Or, you may apply source changes manually for the updated module. Click on the "mods" link next to the module name for the Differences Report, which shows the previous and current versions of the module side by side. For a further description of the Differences features, click the "Help" link at the top right when the report is displayed.
  • WCVCN14B (new)
  • WFVCN14N (mods)
• Run the utility WCVCN14B to correct students with out-of-synch Verification transactions. JCL should reference:
  • The standard WolffPack input parameters (Aid year, Term, FAO, Run mode and Date) - for example:

     2014,F,UG,TRIAL,

  • Work file 1 and Work file 2, both with a record length of 118 (used to support the sorting of the detail student report)
  • Print file 1 (for the control report) and Print file 3 (for the detail student list report)
• Print the changed pages and User Guide update instructions in the zip file.