Batch Process Configuration Considerations

Before you modify Payroll for North America batch processes, make a thorough analysis of the business requirements that you're trying to address through configuration and seriously consider the possibility of addressing those requirements through re-engineering the payroll department procedures rather than through changing PeopleSoft COBOL source code. It is almost always more cost-effective to reduce the list of required changes to an absolute minimum. When you configure batch processes, you incur a variety of ongoing maintenance expenses and possible conflicts as the effects of the changes move through the system.

An important configuration consideration is how the system processes the various dates in Payroll for North America: effective dates, begin and end dates, dates on the job record, dates on the General Deduction table, and dates on the Pay Calendar table.

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In providing information on this topic, we assume that you have a basic understanding of PeopleSoft online processing flow, PeopleTools, relational databases, and COBOL programming.