Local timesheet and other payroll input collection processes have always been very different from UCOP base. A consolidated timesheet is used which replaces at least five standard time-collection documents. This system has been in place since 1979 and is still preferred by the campus over the base PPS leave system. Currently, the local system excels in the areas of financial leave accrual, general retroactivity handling, and employee leave history reporting, while the base system is more flexible in its ability to change accrual rules and rates based on union status. A study is underway to determine the feasibility of adopting the base PPS leave system, making local upgrades in the areas where the local system is superior.
Work is underway on giving feature-based browse capability to departmental operatives.
Also, Departmental Security Administrators are now able to establish PAN notification routing rules for their departments. Similar changes have been made to the PPS ARSM security subsystem to allow Departmental Security Administrators to grant access to their own departmental operatives, as limited by their respective departmental profiles. Separate Academic and Staff Personnel action-history systems, which have been maintained locally since 1978 will soon be integrated as a summary level of the more detailed local Employee Change Database within the Data Warehouse, and, as with the Change Database, will be accessible to all having appropriate authority. Local Research Assistant Tuition-Remission subsystem. CICS Help Facility is used to provide online help support.