Components of Data Conversion

The tables below illustrate the file type it's associated naming convention, a description of the file, and the conversion method that could be used for the file type.

SAIG Pre-Load Process

In order to continue student financial aid, legacy data from ED may be required.

Since SFA acts as the SAIG intermediary for an institution upon go-live, the conversion tool suite has a mechanism to load historical SAIG prior to go-live to maintain financial aid continuity for all students, even if the students are not immediately cut over to the system.

At the time of cutover, students are reunited with their appropriate and holistic set of Student Aid Internet Gateway (SAIG) data necessary to seamlessly continue financial aid, whether the data was received prior to go-live or during the pilot phase.

SAID File Types for (SFP only) are indicated.

SAIG File Types and Naming Convention

File Type	Naming Convention
Institutional Student Information Record (ISIR)	idsaXXop-UUID.yyy
Financial Aid History (FAH) (SFP only)	fahextop-UUID.yyy
Common Origination and Disbursement (COD) File Types are: crpn, crec, crsp, crcs, crco, crac, crat, crib (SFP only)	<File Type>XXop-UUID.yyy

Where:

• “XX” is the last two digits of the Award Year; except for COD File Type crec which is not Award Year-striped, but always crecmy-UUID.yyy.

• UUID is the SFA-generated Universally Unique Identifier (UUID).

• “yyy” is initially “dat”, and then a sequence of numbers: “001”, “002”, “003”and so on.

For file name descriptions, see the U.S. Department of Education website.