Publication Date: August 14, 2003
Author: General Manager: FSA Students Channel
Summary: Development of EDExpress for Windows 2003-2004 Service Release, Version 9.1.a
Posted on 08-14-2003
TO: All EDExpress Users
FROM: U.S. Department of Education
RE: Development of EDExpress for Windows 2003-2004 Service Release, Version 9.1.a
The Department is developing a service release, Version 9.1.a, to resolve several EDExpress for Windows 2003-2004 software issues. This service release will be an upgrade to Version 9.1.
Version 9.1.a will be available for download in late August/early September on the Department’s Federal Student Aid Download (FSAdownload) Web site, located at http://fsadownload.ed.gov/index.htm. We will send an additional message to the community when the installation file is posted to the site.
The software issues that will be resolved by Version 9.1.a are explained below, by module:
Application Processing:
1) Users can now correct the E-Mail Address field to blank and the software will correctly include the asterisk indicating this change in the ISIR Corrections Export file (CORR04IN).
2) Users will now be able to correct more than 12 fields on a single ISIR transaction without causing a CPS reject for invalid “N” count. Refer to the Electronic Announcement posted to IFAP on May 15, 2003 for further details.
Direct Loan:
1) Users can now export Direct Loan records with changes to the amounts and/or dates for Anticipated Disbursements and the software will include the Disbursement Net Amount, Disbursement Fee Amount and Interest Rebate Amount. NOTE: These fields were added to the change export record layout after EDExpress Version 9.1 was released. They must be sent in the export file for the record to be processed correctly by the Common Origination and Disbursement (COD) system.
2) Users will now have the ability to create two of the same loan types for the same student and export them in the same COMRECIN file. For example, if you wish to create two unsubsidized Stafford loans for the same student (representing different academic years), you will be able to export both at once to COD for processing. The software’s export function in Version 9.1 is incorrectly assigning an invalid award ID when exercising this option.
Pell:
1) Values for the Pell Credit/Clock Hours to Complete and Pell Program Academic Year fields will no longer be reversed when importing COD record acknowledgement files for clock-hour students.
2) Pell Disbursement data previously entered and/or accepted will no longer be overwritten if a Pell Disbursement Profile code is modified on a student’s Pell Origination record.
3) Users will no longer incorrectly receive the edit message “Total Disbursement Amount Exceeds Award Amount for Entire School Year” when making adjustments to an existing disbursement using a Pell External Disbursement import file.
Direct Loan and Pell (issues affecting both EDExpress modules):
1) Users can now export COMRECIN files that are larger than 5 MB.
2) Users can now use both a query and “Select Records” via selection criteria when exporting Pell and/or Direct Loan data.
If you have any questions, please contact CPS/WAN Technical Support at 800/330-5947 or via e-mail at CPSWAN@NCS.COM.