Company: Link Technologies
Case No: L08700. Project: 08.20: LinkSOFT Version 8.2
Logged By: Vineet (Link Business Solutions) on 24 Jul 2017 01:26PM
Priority: High
Product: Payroll & HR
Group: Change Request
Time Taken: 9.00 (Weight: 9.00)
Version: 8.290.0115
Assigned To: Sanjay (Link Technologies)
Circulation: Alvis, Rashna, Sanjay, Vineet
Resolve By: Tuesday, 25 July 2017 12:00 AM [2441 days since logged date]
Status: Closed
Subject: Changes to PAYE Electronic File to cater for new TAX ECAL
Summary:    

The below changes is required to in the PAYE Electronic file to cater for the new ECAL Tax introduced and application from August 2017.

  1. The current Specification document that specifies current EMS structure and will have a new inclusion of column for ECAL with 11 characters as other income fields
  2. All fields till SRL column remains, insert of new column of ECAL and then the rest of the columns shifts right side of EMS files.
  3. The total length of each line should increase by 11 characters respectively. This means, spaces in Header line and spaces in Footer line increases by 11 characters. 
Attached is the PAYE electronic file specification that has details for this change.


Audit Notes:
24 Jul 201704:20PM Comment 1 by Alvis (Link Technologies) Case 8700 added to project 8.15
24 Jul 201704:32PM Comment 2 by Sanjay (Link Technologies) Assigned To: Rashna (Edge Business Solutions) Followup Date: 24-07-2017 04:32 PM Time Taken: 2.00
Development completed. Added ECAL column to PAYE Electronic file as specified.

25 Jul 201708:52AM Comment 3 by Rashna (Edge Business Solutions) Assigned To: Alvis (Link Technologies) Followup Date: 25-07-2017 08:52 AM Time Taken: 2.00
QA for product and Patch Releases
Step 1 - Developer to system test changes until not issues are found - Alvis and Sanjay to sign off on System Test
Step 2 - Product expert allocated by Consulting Manager for Product QA.
               Consulting Manager to allocate resource
               Consulting Manager to sign off on UAT and Generic Test

Step 3 - Sanjay to release patch only after steps 1 and 2 are completed successfully.

STEP 1 - DETAILS OF QA can be entered in case comments. Summary to be maintained in the table below.

Case has been tested in QA1 with database LINKSOFT.


Details, See Figure 1 below 
  1. The Header outputs - HPAY6201708487798587099, This should read HPAYE201708487798587099
  2. Incorrect Spacing, There should be 11 more spaces added before 0 to align header with accordance to Detail and Footer.

Figure 1 Error 


 

WORKFLOW:

  1. Original case assigned to Development
  2. When the product is ready for release, System test details are entered into comments and the CASE HEADER Table updated.
  3. If system test passes, assign case to Consulting Manager for UAT
  4. If UAT Passes, Assign case to MD to release patch
Regards
Vineet and Rashna

    25 Jul 201710:36AM Comment 4 by Sanjay (Link Technologies) Assigned To: Rashna (Edge Business Solutions) Followup Date: 25-07-2017 10:36 AM Time Taken: 1.00

    Hi Rashna,

    I changed this to PAY6 as it was in the file format specs that Sanjeet emailed me. 

    I have reverted it to "PAYE"

    regards
    Alvis


    26 Jul 201709:09AM Comment 5 by Rashna (Edge Business Solutions) Assigned To: Alvis (Link Technologies) Followup Date: 26-07-2017 09:09 AM Time Taken: 1.00

    Hi Alvis, 

    The spacing in the header is still incorrect. Refer to comment 3

    1. Incorrect Spacing, There should be 11 more spaces added before 0 to align header with accordance to Detail and Footer.

    Regards
    Rashna


    26 Jul 201709:10AM Comment 6 by Sanjay (Link Technologies) Assigned To: Rashna (Edge Business Solutions) Followup Date: 26-07-2017 09:10 AM Time Taken: 1.00
    Hi Rashna, I have made the changes as requested. Updates will be in 8.15 build 4.

    26 Jul 201702:23PM Comment 7 by Rashna (Edge Business Solutions) Assigned To: Sanjay (Link Technologies) Followup Date: 26-07-2017 02:23 PM Time Taken: 2.00
    QA for product and Patch Releases
    Step 1 - Developer to system test changes until not issues are found - Alvis and Sanjay to sign off on System Test
    Step 2 - Product expert allocated by Consulting Manager for Product QA.
                   Consulting Manager to allocate resource
                   Consulting Manager to sign off on UAT and Generic Test

    STEP 1 - DETAILS OF QA can be entered in case comments. Summary to be maintained in the table below.

    Table 1 - Summarised list of issues
    NoIssue Description Resolved? 
    1 EMS file should be generated Pass
    2 The EMS file format should as the new format   Pass
    3 Users should be able to generate the consolidated EMS file Pass
    4 All figures on the file should be correct Pass

    WORKFLOW:

    1. Original case assigned to Development
    2. When the product is ready for release, System test details are entered into comments and the CASE HEADER Table updated.
    3. If system test passes, assign case to Consulting Manager for UAT
    4. If UAT Passes, Assign case for Documentation or close case

      09 Oct 201908:14AM Comment 8 by Sanjay (Link Technologies) Quality control status: Pass. QC Not required - This case was created before quality check was implemented in version 11 on 30/06/2019
      Attachments:
      General Documents - Case: 8700:FRCA New-Payroll-Speification-Including ECALdocx (00000002).docx
      sample.txt
      Sample-11487798587-099-2017-08-1.txt
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