27 Overview to Technical Features

This chapter contains these topics:

27.1 Objectives

  • To make more disk space available by purging data

  • To create magnetic tapes containing payroll information that comply with bank standards

  • To track changes to the Employee Master table

  • To copy to a batch file the time entry information that your employees enter into third-party software

27.2 About Technical Features

Technical features are operations of the Payroll system that you run periodically and are of a more specialized nature than other periodic or advanced operations.

Working with technical features includes the following tasks:

  • Purging employee information

  • Working with magnetic tapes

  • Working with the Human Resources (HR) subsystem and monitor

  • Copying PC timecard information to a batch file