Period Maintenance in Version 4.04 for FY99

[<rich.wright@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The company I work for closed it's Fiscal Year 98 on February 28, 1998.
When we tried to update the period master (GLD105) with the new fiscal year
for 99, the program indicated that this was an invalid fiscal year. I
contacted the help line and found that this problem was fixed in version
4.06 but not in version 4.04. The 4.06 fixes involve fields that do not
exist in version 4.04 and the help line sent me the 4.06 code and sad that
is the best they could do. We are also in the process of testing the
version 4.05CD to solve our century dating problem and have found that it
has the same problem with the period table maintenance. I scanned and found
25 other BPCS programs that reference the 'PYEAR' field in the period
master and have not yet analyzed them for a negative impact. I have also
talked with SSA's manager of technical service and he advised that we
externally update the period master with the FY99 dates and that seems to
be working for now.

I hope this information will be helpful for those under V4 that will start
FY99 this year. I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has encountered
this problem.






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