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May 2, 2021

New Transaction: Sick Leave Incentive Report

The new transaction ZSICKPAYOUT_RPT – Retiree Sick Leave Incentive Report automates the process for determining an employee’s eligibility to receive a sick leave payout. Instead of manually calculating an employee’s eligibility, human resources personnel can use this report to complete the calculations for them. These calculation…

April 29, 2021

Additions to Transaction ZVACANT

Two new selection fields, Organizational Unit and Include Sub-Org Units, have been added to the ZVACANT- ZPAOSR0002 Vacant Position Outbound File / Online Report selection options. The Include Sub-Org Unit field is a default selection that is designed to produce report output only when Organizational Unit information is entered. This default selec…

February 1, 2021

Certain Time Transactions and EASE Portal will be Locked on June 30, 2022

Certain Time Transactions and EASE Portal will be Locked on June 30, 2022 While the Leave Liability processes are completed, the below Time Transactions, as well as the EASE Portal, will be locked on Thursday, June 30, 2022 from 5:00 p.m. – midnight. CAT2 CATS_APPR_LITE CATA ZALTCAT2 ZLEAVE_APPR_LITE PT60 EASE Portal…

November 30, 2020

Enhancements to the Position Control Report

The Position Control Report (Transaction Code ZPAOSR0001) has been updated to provide additional selection options and additional information in the report output. The additional selection options include: Personnel Number Authorized Grade  Auth. and CG/DG Grade CG/DG Grade  Auth. and CG/DG Job The additional information reporte…

November 9, 2020

Default Work Schedule Changes

The default designation for MF01 and OPEN08 work schedule rules within Infotype 0007 (Planned Working Time) have been removed. When maintaining Infotype 0007 for work schedules using Transaction Codes PA30, PA40, PA42, or PA61, the appropriate work schedule rule must be selected. If no work schedule rule is selected, an error message will be gener…

September 25, 2020

Employee Leave Use Report (Transaction ZLEAVUSE) Now Displays the Previous Day Indicator

The output for the Employee Leave Use report now contains a new Previous Day Indicator column. This column was added to help agencies identify absences that have been entered with the Previous Day Indicator selected. For assistance using this report, refer to the job aid Employee Leave Use Report (ZLEAVUSE).…

September 7, 2020

Changes to Transactions ZVENDTAXID and ZVENDBANK

Transaction Codes ZVENDTAXID (search for vendor account by Tax ID) and ZVENDBANK (verify vendor account has bank details) have been updated to improve search and output options.   The following changes have been made to the selection screens: Name search fields are no longer case sensitive and now accept the wild card character, *. Tax Num…

September 2, 2020

Payment Errors Now Available in ZOPENITEMAP Report

Payment Errors Now Available in ZOPENITEMAP Report   Transaction Code ZOPENITEMAP (AP Open Items Report) has been updated to identify some of the most common errors that prevent a vendor invoice from clearing in a payment run. The option to add three (3) new fields to the report output is now available: Payment Reference, Error Code, and Err…

August 19, 2020

New Purchasing Group Report – ZPURGRP_RPT

A new report (Transaction Code ZPURGRP_RPT) is now available to allow AASIS users with the following security roles to search for a list of purchasing group number(s) assigned by Purchasing Organization. State Procurement Master Record Specialist Agency Security Liaison Agency Procurement Management State Procurement Management State Procure…

July 12, 2020

New Search Feature for Employee and Agency Vendors

Employee personnel numbers are used to link certain types of vendor accounts to personnel information. Employee vendor accounts are used for payments such as travel reimbursements to state employees and are defined in vendor group EMPL. Agency petty cash custodians use agency vendor accounts from group AGCY to obtain cash for agency petty cash oper…