To manually initiate the NFC Personnel Actions Outbound Interface:The personnel actions outbound interface process generates an extract of all new and updated Notification of Personnel Actions. You submit personnel actions data to the National Finance Center (NFC) on a daily basis by generating extract files that conform to NFC's interface requirements. You can schedule the concurrent process that generates this extract file to run automatically.
You can also manually initiate the concurrent process. For example, you might manually initiate the extract process the first time you send your position records for a given organization to NFC, and then schedule a daily extract process to list only those records that have changed. You might also manually submit the records if you encounter an internal error that caused that day's concurrent manager processes to error. The following day, you could change the date range to send the current and previous days records.
When you initiate the extract process, you complete the information requested in the Submit Request Set window. To simplify data entry, if you skip the non-required parameter fields, the application selects all the records that meet the information you entered in the required fields.
The personnel action extract retrieves any current and retroactive NPAs based on your date criteria. The application also extracts any future-dated records whose effective date falls in the date range you specify.
If NFC notifies you of an unsuccessful transmission, you can resubmit the request set. If NFC notifies you of errors, you can correct them.
See: Correcting Errors and Resubmitting NFC Data
Use the concurrent manager Submit Requests window to generate an extract file of your personnel actions data data.
To manually initiate the NFC Personnel Actions Outbound Interface:Select NFC Personnel Actions Outbound Interface.
Each request set automatically includes the Outbound JCL Interface that your system administrator defined for you.
Select the NFC Personnel Actions Outbound Interface row, and click the Parameters field.
Select the Personnel Actions Extract Name your system administrator defined for your agency to use when submitting position data from the list of values.
Select the JCL Extract Name your system administrator defined for your agency to use when submitting personnel actions data from the list of values.
If your system administrator did not set up the Write Extract Process to run immediately after the Personnel Actions Outbound Interface extract process, run the Write Extract Process to generate the flat file that you subsequently transmit to NFC.
Select the Date Criteria.
Current Date automatically enters today's date in the From Date and To Date fields.
This default value is the most often used since most agencies submit their data daily to NFC.
Date Last Transmission enters the date of your last regularly scheduled in the From Date field and the current date in the To Date field.
Use this option to ensure that the application includes, in the next regularly scheduled extract, those records that you change on a day when the extract process does not run, for example, on a weekend day.
Enter the NFC Agency Code.
The application enters a value for this field based on the lookup value entered by your system administrator during implementation.
See: Setting up the National Finance Center (NFC) Interfaces
Enter the Personnel Office ID.
The application enters values for the following fields based on the lookup values entered by your system administrator: Transmission Indicator, Sign-on Identification, and User ID.
See: Setting up the National Finance Center (NFC) Interfaces
Enter the Department Code.
Enter the Payroll Name.
If you want to receive a notification when the process successfully completes or when there is an error, select the recipient from the list of values
To run the Write Extract Process
If your system administrator did not choose to automatically start the Write Extract Process that places the extract results in a specified directory as a flat file for transmission to NFC, then you initiate the process manually.
In the Submit Request window, choose Extract Write Process from the list of values.
Click the Parameters field, and select the Request ID of the NFC Position Outbound Interface that you wish to transmit to NFC from the list of recent extracts.
Click the Submit button.
Locate the path of the resulting file in the View Requests window. Select the Request ID and click View Output.
Follow your agency's practices for transmitting the flat file to NFC.