Wendy Jerreld
U.S. Department of Education
2012 Software Developers Webinar #3
Common Origination and
Disbursement (COD) System Update
Agenda
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• COD Release 11.2 Update• COD Release 12.0 Update• Future Enhancements• COD Technical Reference Updates
COD Release 11.2 Update
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COD Release 11.2 Update Pell Experimental Sites
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With Release 11.2, the COD System will implement new COD Experimental Sites functionality for the ability to submit and accept Pell Grant records for students with a bachelor's degree that are enrolled in vocational or career programs.
• Only schools that have been approved for this experiment will have this capability
• Ability to process Pell Grants with the CPS Applicant Pell Eligible flag = No (N) when the award is submitted by a school that has an appropriate PEPS experimental site flag set
• Processing can be performed via batch or Web for the 2012-2013 award year and forward
COD Release 12.0 Update
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With Release 12.0, the COD System will implement the following functionality in late March 2013:
• New Award Year Set-Up for 2013-2014• Ability to Benefit (ATB) modifications • Direct Loan and TEACH SAS disbursement detail available On
Demand• Exit Counseling available on StudentLoans.gov
New value(s) in the <CounselingType> for Exit Counseling <CounselingType> values to be published in early Fall Exit Counseling data will be added to the existing COD Counseling
Report
COD Release 12.0 UpdateAbility to Benefit
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With Release 12.0, the COD System will implement modifications to Ability to Benefit (ATB).
• New valid values for <AbilityToBenefitCode> tag include: 06 = High School Diploma
07 = GED
• <AbilityToBenefitCode> tag required field• Reject Edit 994 will be triggered if the <AbilityToBenefitCode>
tag is not submitted on origination for any program• New warning Edit 199 when <AbilityToBenefitCode> tag value
submitted does not match the High School Diploma or equivalent value from the CPS Transaction Number
• For 2013-2014 and forward
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COD Release 12.0 UpdateAbility to Benefit
Also the Ability to Benefit modifications will include: • Reject Edit 198 if the <AbilityToBenefitCode> tag is submitted
on origination with values equal to 05 “Other” and 03 “State” for all COD programs (Pell, Direct Loans and TEACH) for origination and maintenance
• For award years 2011-2012 and forward
COD Release 12.0 UpdateSAS Disbursement On Demand
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Starting with the 2013-2014 Award Year, COD will provide schools the option to request TEACH and Direct Loan SAS Disbursement Detail on an On Demand basis.
• Grant Data Requests, DL Rebuild and SAS Disbursement Detail will be combined on one COD Web page
• New message classes will be created for the data requested DL and TEACH SAS files
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COD Release 12.0 UpdateSAS Disbursement On Demand
Users will have the following options for SAS Disbursement Detail On Demand:
• Direct Loan or TEACH Program• Award Year• Start Date/End Date, Month-to-Date or Year-to-Date • Format • Display Names of Borrowers • DL SAS Detail
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COD Release 12.0 UpdateSAS Disbursement On Demand
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COD Release 12.0 UpdateSAS Disbursement On Demand
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COD Release 12.0 UpdateSAS Disbursement On Demand
Activity Type Format TypeNew Message Class
Header
Month-to-Date Fixed-Length DSMFyyOP
Month-to-DateComma-Delimited
with HeadersDSMHyyOP
Month-to-DateComma-Delimited without Headers
DSMCyyOP
Month-to-Date Pipe-Delimited DSMPyyOP
Direct Loan SAS Message Classes
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COD Release 12.0 UpdateSAS Disbursement On Demand
Direct Loan SAS Message Classes
Activity Type Format TypeNew Message Class
Header
Date Range Fixed-Length DSRFyyOP
Date RangeComma-Delimited
with HeadersDSRHyyOP
Date RangeComma-Delimited without Headers
DSRCyyOP
Date Range Pipe-Delimited DSRPyyOP
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COD Release 12.0 UpdateSAS Disbursement On Demand
Direct Loan SAS Message Classes
Activity Type Format TypeNew Message Class
Header
Year-to-Date Fixed-Length DSYFyyOP
Year-to-DateComma-Delimited with
HeadersDSYHyyOP
Year-to-DateComma-Delimited without
HeadersDSYCyyOP
Year-to-Date Pipe-Delimited DSYPyyOP
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COD Release 12.0 UpdateSAS Disbursement On Demand
TEACH SAS Message Classes
Activity Type Format TypeNew Message Class
Header
Month-to-Date Comma-Delimited TSOMyyOP
Year-to-Date Comma-Delimited TSOYyyOP
Date Range Comma-Delimited TSORyyOP
COD Future Enhancements
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For the 2014-2015 award year, COD will begin performing full XML validation.
• New validation will be based on the most frequent COD XML errors
• Example of common errors include general file formatting such as: Invalid character or invalid byte Content before the <?xml tag Opening tag exists but end tag is missing
• Please see the following slide for further examples…
COD Future Enhancements
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XML Error Type Error Description
cvc-maxLength-valid String is too long
cvc-datatype-valid.1.2.1 Value is not valid for data type
cvc-attribute.3 Required attribute missing
cvc-minLength-valid String is too short
cvc-enumeration-valid Value not in set of valid optionscvc-type.3.1.3 Element not valid
cvc-complex-type.3.2.2Attribute 'xsi:schemaLocation' is not allowed to appear in element
cvc-elt.3.1 Required value missingcvc-complex-type.2.3 Element contains children, but is defined as element-only
cvc-length-valid String length is wrong (length has to be exact)cvc-minInclusive-valid Number is too small
cvc-pattern-valid String format wrongcvc-complex-type.2.2 Element contains no sub-element whereas one is expected
cvc-maxInclusive-valid Number is too large
COD Technical Reference Updates
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Date Technical Reference Updates
June 2012Revised Technical Reference was posted based on Summer and Fall 2012 system modifications
November 2012 Technical Reference to be posted without a new schema
Contact Information
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We appreciate your feedback and comments. We can be reached at:
Direct Loans: Wendy Jerreld
Phone: (202) 377- 4135
Email: [email protected]
Grants: Dan Sullivan
Phone: (202) 377- 3114
Email: [email protected]
Contact Information
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COD School Relations Center
Email: [email protected]
URL: http://www.cod.ed.gov
Phone - Grants: (800) 474-7268
Phone - Direct Loans: (800) 848-0978
Effective December 2012 New Customer Service Email Address