The UID is the common thread that allows applications to tie various student and employee data together. Numbers are generated automatically with an incorporated check-digit for verifying accuracy. Students are initially added through the Student Admissions process. Updates are done throughout the various Student System processes. The UID System provides on-line search, inquiry, add, update, and delete functions for student, employee, and company identifying data.
Batch processing is available to do mass adds, inquiries, updates, inactivates, and deletes.
The UID system also provides an On-line Help facility. No major projects planned. The UCLA Identification System is a mainframe system utilizing DB2 tables. Reporting is provided RDS .