• Payroll Check Stubs have a new field available to print the last 4 non-blank characters of the employee's Social Security number. This in addition to the previously added field that prints the entire Social Security number. Check with your state to see which if either of these you should use.
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• We did a major overhaul to all the reports printed by Payroll program 25 (Tax Returns). Some outdated functionalities were dropped, and new ones added, but mainly we referred to the government forms that employers must fill out using these reports and tried to generally make them more useful by providing amounts that relate more directly to those reports, adding and changing text so that it more closely matches the forms, and doing a general cleanup to make the reports much easier to use.
  

Specifically, we added a field to the Federal reports (1 and 4) to show the Gross Wages paid to an employee and renamed the existing wages field to be either Adjusted Gross (report 1) or Wage Base (report 4). Report 5, SUI/SDI, was already printing the Gross Wages, so we added a field for Wage Base to give the wages reduced by applicable pretax deductions and exempt pay types. Since the changes we made are so extensive, we recommend that users who have company specific PL files not only update their PLs (in SA7) but also copy the current version of the report format for program 25 from the 00 company PL to their company-specific PL and remove the old version.

The default Social Security limits have been updated to 2005 amounts in
programs 25 (Tax Returns) and 26 (Tax Forms).

• In Order Entry program 54 (Estimate To Order) the program would not allow you to proceed with the copy or transfer if the customer was over their credit limit or had overdue invoices, even though your system defaults required only a warning or a supervisor permission.
  
  
• When a supervisor login is required by the software to proceed with some function, and an invalid login or password was given the system properly disallowed the login but did not provide an explanatory error message.
  
  
• In Billing program 8 (Update AR/IN) when you ran the archive setup function the answer to the System Defaults question "Payments Affect AR" was not being copied to the archive company.
  
  
• All files now have the record number available in the Report Generator dictionaries. This will allow you to create reports that include the actual physical record number of any detail being printed on the report. This can be useful in troubleshooting situations when wanting to work with specific records in the File Maintenance module.
  
  
• In Purchase Orders program 10 (Post Items Received), when adding a new line to the PO, the Department Number field would accept any number, not just valid ones. The field is also now more consistent about the default department it provides. In addition, a number of mostly minor display problems were fixed in this program as well.
  
  
• The ADFMDATA file has been updated with revised descriptions of various fields.
  
  
• In File Fixer when it prints a report for the Analyze or Repair options and it finds problem data in a record, it tries to print some representative data from that record on the report to help the user to identify the record in question. In a few specific cases this data was too long to be printed on the report properly and it would cause the program to die.
  
  
• File Fixer has never reported file locked errors to the user--it just ignored the locked file and continued on to the next. This was dangerous since if the user is checking their files for corruption, and a corrupted file is locked, then File Fixer would skip the file and the user would not be made aware of problems. Now File Fixer will display an error message if a file is locked.
  
  
• In certain cases, when programs open particular data files they do so with the understanding that the files being opened are optional and not required to proceed. In cases where such files were not successfully opened because the files were missing, the user was sometimes not properly notified of the problem. The solution to this problem required a root change and minor changes to several programs. They are:

PO SCFM: 4.01

FM DATA: 4.03

AR DICT: 4.02

All other dictionary files: 4.01
except for QO, which remains
at 4.00 (it didn't change)