| PublicationDate: 1/12/2000 Summary: Modification to CPS Batch Trailer Records Author: PSS - Program Systems Service Posted on January 12, 2000 TO: All Destination Points FROM: CPS Customer Service RE: Modification to CPS Batch Trailer Records CPS wants to inform you of a minor modification to the formatting of trailer records for EAPS00OP, SARR00OP, or REAP00OP batches processed by the CPS. This change affects field 9, positions 57-61, of the CPS trailer record. Field 9 is the field in the trailer indicating the total number of student records in a batch. Prior to making this change, field 9 of the trailer record reported the number of ISIR records in the file. Starting on January 4, 2000, the CPS has modified this format to now reflect the number of records sent in the corresponding EAPS00IN, CORR00IN, or REAP00IN file. This change has been made in order to make CPS trailer records more consistent for all message classes. This change will help participants recognize when an application or correction record is rejected. For example, if a school receives an ISIR batch with field 9 in the trailer indicating there were five records sent, but there are only three ISIR records in the batch, this would indicate two of the records from the original application or correction batch were rejected. In this scenerio the school should then look for an EAPR00OP, SARE00OP, or RAPR00OP batch, which will provide detailed information as to which records had rejected and why they rejected. This change for the 1999-2000 processing cycle will be rolled over to the 2000-2001 cycle as well. If you have any questions regarding this change, please contact CPS Customer Service at 800-330-5947, option 2, or via email at CPS@NCS.COM. Questions regarding CPS can also be posted to the SFATech listserve; for more information on subscribing to SFATECH, please review the SFATECH section at: http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSFAP/sfatech/index.html. |