6Enable Award Year-Based File Formats

Each new award year, you’ll need to enable the US Department of Education file formats you want to process.

These include:

• FAFSA Processing System (FPS) file formats for ISIRs, processed with the Student Eligibility Award Year release.

• Common Origination and Disbursement (COD) file formats, processed with the Packaging and Awarding Award Year release.

If your SAIG mailboxes are already enabled, any FPS or COD files that arrive in an inactive (not enabled) format stay in a queue. Once you enable the format, Oracle Student Financial Aid Cloud Service (SFA) automatically processes those files.

By default, when you've set up your Student Aid Internet Gateway (SAIG) mailboxes in SFA, SFA downloads all files from your mailbox, then processes enabled message classes and stores disabled ones for later. You can also use the Vocado US Department of Education Gateway (VUG) REST APIs to access downloaded files. Go to Cloud Customer Connect to see the API documentation in the Release Notes.

Note:

If you want SFA upload or download specific SAIG message classes that aren’t award year–based and aren’t managed through DOE File Management, submit a Service Request to Oracle Support. Include your environment URL, a description of the request, and the list of message classes.