I was curious if anyone had a timeline of when they run their benefit update reports for payroll. Recently we had a situation where I ran the BN100. and it had an error report. The errors indicated a change rule issues like 'name change', 'title change' etc. (things that do not affect benefits so I did not create a change rule) After about 3 hrs of global support including a web-x, they said, 'Oh those are just warnings, not errors, and you can run it in update'. This caused a MAJOR delay i...

good afternoon, we are in the process of writing interfaces between our outside e-recruiting vendor and lawson. for new hires from outside the company - it is a fairly straight forward upload via HR511 now we are trying to write one interface for internal transfers and/or rehires. i knew this would be a bit more complicated. this complication is due to the existing history aspects of an existing active employee transferring to an internally posted job or an employee who once...

I'm understanding that we have to first upgrade our environment to esp 7 as well as IOS/Logan and Portal to 3.0.7 proir to the BSI version 8. (We are on Windows NT platform with HR & GL 8.1 apps) Has anyone accomplished this, is it a simple process Are there other components that need to be updated

We are new on Lawson and need to do an unemployment report. I know that the pr292 has recently been updated to allow Lawson to put this into the XML format. My question is this...since I only need to report a few items for this, how hard would it be to take query results and put into XML format

We are currently getting ready to move to 9.0LSf env. using 8.03 apps. Our current tax program requires us to send a file to them by Dec 21st for the current tax yr for viewing. My problem is I will not have a true system to pull them from until Jany 7th 2008 and that is to late. I was wondering if anyone could tell me if I can run a sample file from out new test prod env. using our 8.03 apps . That will be the env. and application that our true w'2 information will come fom to print 1099's and ...

Hello Does anyone know many plan balances can print using the PMTOUT file I looked at the UNIX PMTOUT specs but only saw character lenghts... Thanks.

Pr160 Laser Check Print file for 8.1 and not sure what all the time accrual fields mean. We include beginning balances on our checks and they are incorrect, we originally thought the TA-BEG-BAL is what we needed but it didn’t work so we created a custom calculation and it is not working. Before I talk to our IT guy, I am trying to understand the file. I can’t find where the usage is listed. Is it with the earnings. If that is the case, the program will not pick up manual adjustments. Please ...

Does anyone know why BSI does not display the EID for tax errors received on new hires Would this require an enhancement request to Lawson to fix Thanks, Kyle

I am trying to remove a hold flag. I receive a change complete continue message but the change not change is made Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. &_TKN=PO25.1&_EVT=CHG&_RTN=DATA&_LFN=ALL&_TDS=IGNORE&FC=Change&PVH-HOLD-FLAG=NO&PVH-PROCURE-GROUP=KM&PVH-VEN-AGRMT-REF=1208&_DELIM=09&_OUT=MSNH&_EOT=TRUE I am able to succsessfully place on hold with this call. &_TKN=PO25.1&_EVT=CHG&_RTN=DATA&_LFN=ALL&_TDS=IGNORE&FC=Hold&PVH-PROCURE-GROUP=KM&PVH-VEN-AGRMT-RE...

We are trying to close a payroll in a test environment but PR197 gives us the message 'run pr160 for bank code WACH', but the PR00 screen says that PR160 has been run It has an '*'. When I look at the paymaster and the prcheck files the check-id do not match. Any ideas how we can get out of this

Would anyone happen to have an Add-Ins template for PR13.1 that they would be willing to share Thanks, Kyle

I'm using Crystal Reports XI R1 with a regular ODBC connection and am trying to report on promotions for a set period of time and would like to try and find out (via PAJOBREQ) how many of the promotions were replacing existing headcount. I'm having the darndest time linking through between the two tables. Any suggestions in terms of structure/link type

Has anyone run into needing to change the veterans categories in order to complie with new government regulations For example it looks to us like we need to have a category of 'Armed Forces Service Medal Veteran'. I think I can just do this in DBDEF however it would be nice to have an official patch from Lawson on this. Here is where my users are getting their information on this. http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/ofccp/faqs/jvafaqs.htm Thanks.

We're trying to setup Service Variable DC Plans in Lawson and are not having any luck. We're basically trying to create a plan that the employee does not make any contributions to, however the company makes contributions based on a sliding scale for service. 1-4 years: 4.0 5-9 years: 4.5 10-19 years: 5.0 20 years: 6.0 We've got some static plans that we've setup in the past where we defined it as a No Coverage/Contribution Limits plan (where employee has no contribut...

Hoping someone can help. We are having a reoccurring issue where new hires are no longer automatically attaching to time accrual banks. We have been having to manually attach running a TA125 and then manually put start dates on their banks. The problem seems to be relatively consistent with no definitive patterns. Does this sound like user error Could the person who is inputting new hires be missing a screen Could it be an issue with approving a new hire Or is this more of a 'system' pro...

We have a situation that I am struggling with and am hoping someone can help. We allot our EE's Personal Holidays. We have been using Lawson LP since 4/1/06 and have had a few issues with the allotment process both 01/01/07 and 01/01/08. Our company rules are: 1) If you are a new hire hired between 1/1 and 6/30 of the hire year, you get 2 days immediatley upon hire 2) If you are hired between 7/1 and 12 31 of the hire year, you get 1 day immediately upon hire 3) Each year thereafter, you...

Has anybody had any experience with loading employees with a position attached via HR511 and seeing the default values for the position populated I know of a few work arounds to get my result, but I am wondering if anybody has ever seen this work (not sure that it's 'design' but I have heard reports of this working and other reports indicating it doesn't work) Thanks, -mc

We are in the middle of a semi monthly process, period ending 2/15/08 with a check date of 2/15/08 and the TA170 job is accruing for both 2/15/08 and for 2/29/08. I have double checked the time record dates and all have a date of 2/15. The only date that I can find that is not in the current period of 2/1 - 2/15 is when I drill on the time records, there is a work end date of 2/16. My only knowledge with this date is that it is system generated when you close the payroll year. I've already o...

We're getting ready to stop giving elec remit advice on paychecks and force everyone to use ESS.  The only problem, you can't see the time accrual data per check. I've been hunting around trying to alter the paytyear.htm file to retrieve this data.  I'm not totally understanding the DMEObject functionality.  I've simply added this (fixed from previous post.  I apologize for that):     var TimeAccrual = new Array()     function MakeTA()     {         var taobj            = new DMEObject(prod...

In an attempt to supplement self-service centers, I'm looking to create my own htm files that authenticate, create a DME call and display data. I'm trying to learn from recsum.htm and paytyear.htm and I'm having problems. The issue is when I make a call that returns multiple records, then I want to display each field in a table. Can someone please help I'm so close, I know I'm just not understanding something about the DMEObject and how to use Arrays to store the records. ...

Is there a work-around for payment modeling in ESS  Thanks.

Is anyone using Lawson Security for HCM  I have developed an RM structure to limit user access to employees in specific process levels using ***isStructNodeTitleAbove('xxxStructure',PROCESS_LEVEL,user.getAttribute('xxxx'))***.  This works beautifully for the application and drills involving the 'Employee' or 'PAEmployee' (etc) files.  However, when I drill on a benefit plan or a deduction, the drill returns values for all employees even though the employee name and number are blank.  Has anyone...

Hello.  My company is currently looking for an e-recruiting system that will work well with Lawson.  We are looking as Lawson, but wanted to also look at what other companies are successfully using.  I appreciate any input you can provide me including The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Thanks,

We are a ISeries AS/400 client that has just upgraded from Law7 to Law9. When on Law7 we were able to upload time records by having the data in a sequential file (PR530X) and running PR530 in a CL program and the upload would happen. This no longer is true. We now have the data in the IFS as prescribed but the PR530 within the CL program goes into a neverending semaphore wait. We are forced to complete our upload by using LID or Portal (PR530). If anyone knows a way to have the CL program app...

Currently, we are in the process of moving to 9.0 environment only.   We use ESS for our benefits enrollment process.    When testing benefit enrollment , the process goes well until 'keep these benefits' is selected as the final step.  At that point, we get the error message 'Value not in list: A.'  Has anyone else ever gotten this error message and, if so, what was the solution   Thank you.