Understanding Saving Employee Information

When employees enter changes to their benefits, personal information, or dependent and beneficiary information, the system saves the changes in workfiles. This information needs to be periodically saved to system live files. After you set up benefits self-service, including the required workfiles, you need to schedule reports to run that periodically save this information.

Other programs such as Address Book Constants (P0000) can also cause the system to save information that can be subsequently saved in the live tables that contain self-service information. For example, when a value in Address Book Constants is set to record address information with an effective date, the Update Employee Personal Information to Live Tables program (R054104) includes the date effective address information when you save self-service changes. When you set up your system to include date effectiveness, you also need to run the Effective Address Update program (R01840) to mark the latest address as the current address.