The MR installer has been updated to back up cacerts files on secondary tier installs. Previously, they were backed up on primary tier installs only.

A network replication parameter has been updated to address WebLogic cluster replication issues that could make a node unresponsive.

The message box that interrupted the Costpoint MR installation process due to a failure has been removed from the MR installer.

The qualified leave wages that employers pay employees under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) are now subject to the employer share of Social Security tax. Previously, under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) enacted in March 2020, any wages paid as a result of the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act (EPSLA) and the Emergency Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act (EFMLEA) are not subject to the employer portion of Social Security tax.

The Manage Pay Type Taxability screen will now allow you to select COVID-19 Paid Sick Leave or COVID-19 FMLA from the COVID-19 Tax Credit drop-down list even if the Employer Social Security Exempt check box is not selected. Previously, under the FFCRA, pay types could only be assigned as COVID-19 paid leave if the employer portion of social security tax was flagged as exempt.

On March 30, 2021, President Biden signed an extension for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was created in 2020 to help small businesses weather the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. The deadline to apply for a PPP loan has been extended from March 31 to May 31, and the law extends authorization of loans to June 30 to give the Small Business Administration additional time to process applications.

 

To help employers report accurate data for any loan applications, Costpoint Payroll provides a new report to calculate employer payroll expenses. The new application, named Print COVID Paycheck Protection Program Report, will provide a 12-month breakdown of the following:

• Total employee earnings

• Employer paid state and local taxes

• Employer benefits

• Earnings in excess of $100,000

• Total payroll costs

• Number of employees

The report will also display the yearly average for the total payroll costs and number of employees. Only U.S.-based employees will be included in the report. You can access the new application on the People > Payroll > Payroll Utilities menu.

Attention: For more information, please refer to:

• https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/covid-19-relief-options/paycheck-protection-program

• https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/coronavirus/assistance-for-small-businesses/paycheck-protection-program

• https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/Paycheck-Protection-Program-Frequently-Asked-Questions.pdf

Note: This enhancement requires patch dbc_800_10587.

Costpoint adds the ability to print Form 1095-C and 1094-C using the 2019 report layout. The following screens now provide the corresponding options for printing:

• Print 1094-Cs (HBR1094C)

• Print 1094-Cs Current Report: Select this report to print current year 1094-C data using the current year report layout.

• Print 1094-Cs 2019 Report: Select this report to print 2019 1094-C data using the 2019 report layout.

• Print 1095-Cs (HBR1095C)

• Print 1095-Cs Current Report: Select this report to print current year 1095-C data using the current year report layout.

• Print 1095-Cs 2019 Report: Select this report to print 2019 1095-C data using the 2019 report layout.

Defect 1424565: You encountered an error when you attempted to process a check that has more than 10,000 vouchers associated with it.

Defect 1443512: Your setup in the Advanced Mapping Definition was not reflected in the generated CSV file.

Defect 1433430: The application did not display an error if the input file contained a Project Account Abbreviation that is not valid for a company.

 

You encountered this issue if:

1. You set up multiple companies in Costpoint that use an identical Project Account Group.

2. You assigned the Project Account Abbreviation to the Project Account Group of one of the companies.

3. You uploaded the input file for a company that uses the same Project Account Group but not the Project Account Abbreviation.

Defect 1445077: When a workflow was submitted, the color of the Approve button did not change to show the status of the workflow process.

Defect 1451077: In the workflow approval process, the email notification that usually is sent to the escalation user did not send when the escalation happened automatically, after the assigned time expiration. However, if the escalation was initiated manually, the email notification was sent correctly.

Defect 1420792: Changes were made to Manage FAR Library and Manage Supplemental Regulations Library to help you ensure that the information you have for Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and supplemental regulation clauses in Costpoint are up to date. Agencies occasionally update these clauses, and you need to be able to reflect the changes in Costpoint.

Previously, a FAR or supplemental regulation ID can be associated with only one effective date. Now, you can have different effective dates linked to a single FAR/supplemental regulation clause. This can be important when the effective date of the clause changes and you want to keep track of records with previous effective date(s). 

A new field, Added Date, is also available on both screens. You can use this field to indicate the date the record was added to Costpoint or the date the information was gathered. The same field has been added to the respective input file layouts. Use the following information for the new column when importing CSV files in Manage FAR Library and Manage Supplemental Regulations Library: 

• Column number: 17

• Column name: ADDED_DT

• Field length: DATE

• Required: No

• Default value if no value is entered: None

On the Manage Contracts and Manage Subcontracts screens, updates include the following:

• FAR Clauses/Provisions subtask: The lookup of the FAR Number field now includes the Effective Date column. 

• Supplemental Regulations subtask: The lookup of the Clause Number field now includes the Effective Date column. 

Application updates are included in the following defects.

Defect Number	Application Name
1420792	Manage FAR Library
1420794	Manage Supplemental Regulations Library
1420799	Manage Contracts
1420802	Manage Subcontracts

Defect 1422112: On the Modifications tab, Costpoint displayed project numbers that were not assigned to the contract.

Defect 1426435: If a purchase order (PO) or purchase requisition (PR) is linked to a subcontract, the values in the following fields from Manage Subcontracts now automatically flow to the PO/PR record when changes are made in Manage Subcontracts. Fields on the PO/PR record will also be read-only.

 

Manage Subcontracts Field	Manage Purchase Orders Field
Subcontract Start Date (Header)	Period of Performance Starting (Other Defaults tab)
	Period of Performance Start Date (Purchase Order Lines > Line tab)
Subcontract End Date (Header)	Period of Performance Ending (Other Defaults tab)
	Period of Performance End Date (Purchase Order Lines > Line tab)
US Citizen (Subcontract Info tab)	US Citizenship Required (Security Requirements tab)
	US Citizenship Required (Purchase Order Lines > Security Requirements tab)

 

Manage Subcontracts Field	Manage Purchase Requisitions Field
Subcontract Start Date (Header)	Period of Performance Start Date (Requisition Lines > Other Information tab)
Subcontract End Date (Header)	Period of Performance End Date (Requisition Lines > Other Information tab)
US Citizen (Subcontract Info tab)	US Citizenship Required (Security Requirements tab)
	US Citizenship Required (Requisition Lines > Security Requirements tab)

 

The US Citizen check box value on the Subcontract Info tab of Manage Subcontracts also flows to the US Citizenship Required check box on the following screens if a purchase requisition is linked to a subcontract:

• Apply PO Info to Purchase Requisitions (PPMNTRQ2)

• Apply PO Info to Purchase Requisitions by Line (PPMRQLN)

• Manage Request for Quotes By Item (PPMRFQI)

• Manage Request for Quotes By Vendor (PPMRFQV)

• Manage Vendor Quotes By Item (PPMQTI)

• Manage Vendor Quotes By Vendor (PPMQTV)

Defect 1438160: When you ran a long-running job asynchronously or on a different terminal (or browser) and then submitted a new job to the job server that included a parallel step from the previous job submitted, the step with the parallel action in the new job would lock and retry until the system completed the step. As a result, when the new job completed and you opened the View Action and Report Status screen and viewed the job steps, some data related to the job server was missing for the job that ran asynchronously and for the steps that completed prior to the parallel step in the newer job.

Defect 1448096: When you tried to save an edit to MRP action messages, you received a system error.

Defect 1448094: When you tried to save an edit to MRP action messages, you received a system error.

Defect 1425899: When you ran Update Material Requirements Plan and queried the database, the process inserted a single space on the SCHED_RECPT.RES_WHSE_ID table.

Defect 1419394: When you assigned an existing purchase order (PO) to a requisition line, and the buyer limit has been exceeded for the PO line or the PO total, the system did not provide a warning/error message.

Defect 1447010: When you changed the purchase order (PO) type to Subcontract Retainage, the amount on the PO line was zeroed out and you received an error message.

Defect 1419397: When you assigned an existing purchase order (PO) to a requisition line, and the buyer limit has been exceeded for the PO line or the PO total, the system did not provide a warning/error message.

Defect 1419401: When you assigned an existing purchase order (PO) to a requisition line, and the buyer limit has been exceeded for the PO line or the PO total, the system did not provide a warning/error message.

Defect 1430903: When you added a new requisition line and entered a part, the warehouse ID that defaulted was incorrect.

Defect 1438474: The application has been updated to remove the exclusive lock on the SYS_SETTINGS_CORP table.

Defect 1420212: When parts/items were separated by company, you were unable to load line types even though you were logged into the company where the parts exist.

Defect 1447311: When the Issue Quantity was greater than the Required Quantity, the MO_RQMT table was updated incorrectly.

Defect 1422128: When you did a relief of a manufacturing order (MO) with a serial/lot reference loaded from the MO, and then you used the Autoload button on the Serial/Lot subtask, a second record was created in the Serial/Lot table. This caused errors when trying to transfer the particular part/serial.

Defect 1445257: When you created a purchase order (PO) change order for a blanket PO, you encountered an error, and the record in the Current Change Order column was changed to 1.

Defect 1432690: When you changed the date or added notes to the line details of a sales order which has minor adjustments to Discount and Trans Currency Net Unit Price, Costpoint recalculated the original amount, and the status went back to Pending.

Defect 1447004: When you clicked the Accounts subtask on the screen, you encountered a system error.

Defect 1430783: You received an AIRSH100 transmission error during file submission for prior years.

Defect 1448227: The 1095-C correction file generated through the application did not include the AuthoritativeTransmittalInd XML tags.

Defect 1408994: A system error occurred when you ran the import process and the import file contained a country code that did not exist in the Country Code table. In this scenario, the application should display a regular error message only.

Defect 1442966: The application did not validate the Work Schedule field when you imported employee data.

Defect 1424084: The application should exclude employees who are contractors with “999999999” as the Social Security Number.

Defect 1431031: When you used the application, you encountered an error message that indicated the following: "Cannot read property 'IndexOf' of undefined."

Defect 1444482: The screen displayed the following error message if you have the Ceridian Tax Service (CTS) license enabled: “A worksite number must be specified in the Tax Reporting Info subtask when the SUTA state is Minnesota.” This validation should be removed.

 

As a workaround, you can turn off the CTS license, which will cause the validation to not trigger. If you still use the CTS, you need to manually enter the worksite information for the employees in Minnesota.

Defect 1344766: When you used the Paste Data from Excel function from the Copy menu, the application inserted the Personnel Action Description field values into the Personnel Action Code field.

_{Defect 1452863: When you imported data from Deltek Talent Management, the application did not truncate data that exceeded the maximum allowed characters in the fields of the staging tables. This resulted in the data not transferring to Costpoint.}

_{When this issue occurred, no errors displayed in View Interface Execution Status History (LDQPMESH). You were able to view the error from the system log only.}

_{As a workaround, you can update the data in Talent Management to match the value saved in Costpoint.}

Defect 1427544: The identification box needed to be removed since it caused issues when you accessed the application in Costpoint mobile.

Defect 1450410: You encountered a fatal error when you ran the application with the Generate Fringe option as the Process Type and the timesheet for processing contained two timesheet lines that were eligible for wage determination fringe.

 

As a workaround, use the preprocessor for generating mass union fringes.

Defect 1438989: Field 19 in the EMPL export file should remain blank for Time and Expense 9. The User Login ID value should be saved in field 19 when the version is Time and Expense 10.

 

As a workaround, if you use Time and Expense 9, manually change the value in field 19 of the EMPL export file to blank.

Defect 1372763: You were unable to import a work schedule in Costpoint because an error occurred when the year date in the schedule was 1900.

Defect 1433431: When you entered default values and selected the Apply to Lower Levels check box for a lower level project on the Manage Employee Project Timesheet Defaults screen, Costpoint applied the default values to all project levels that have the same top level project.

Defect 1443740: The bank rejected the Payroll ACH file because the file contained an extra dash (-) in the following fields:

• Field 41-50 of record line 5

• Field 45-54 of record line 8

As a workaround, manually update the file before you send it to the bank.

Defect 1410845: If an employee had more than one type of COVID leave (200/day, 511/day, and/or family) in a paycheck, all of the amounts were combined and reported under one Box 14 line.

Defect 1441186: The application should not require Contribution Matching for all contribution computation methods.

Defect 1441499: When you processed an X or Y record after you printed an R or B record’s paycheck/advice, the application cleared the information on the Hourly Rate Detail subtask of the R or B record. This issue occurred when you had the following setup:

• The X or Y record had a cost-only pay type or the pay type had no hours entered.

• The employee is FLSA non-exempt.

• You cleared the Include Hourly Rates for Non-Exempt Employees check box on the Manage State Taxes screen.

• You selected the Print Pay Types by Week for Fair Pay and Paycheck Transparency check box on the Configure Direct Deposit Settings or Configure Paycheck Settings screen.

As a workaround, you can post R records first before creating X adjustment records.

Defect 1441497: When you processed an X or Y record after you print an R of B record’s payment advice, the application cleared the information on the Hourly Rate Detail subtask of the R or B record. This issue occurred when you had the following setup:

• The X or Y record had a cost-only pay type or the pay type had no hours entered.

• The employee is FLSA non-exempt

• You cleared the Include Hourly Rates for Non-Exempt Employees check box on the Manage State Taxes screen.

• You selected the Print Pay Types by Week for Fair Pay and Paycheck Transparency check boxes on the Configure Direct Deposit Settings and Configure Paycheck Settings screens.

As a workaround, you can post R records first before creating X adjustment records.

Defect 1448870: The column for the “Note: Negative number indicate a 'Cash Back' option.” message should be removed since it is no longer applicable. All application logic associated with the message should be removed as well.

Defect 1370579: When determining minimum and maximum period of performance, the Project End Date algorithm included balance sheet transactions when these should be omitted.

Defect 1452967: When you viewed the report, the values for the current period were incorrect.

Defect 1444501: When you tried to run Project Mass Commit, you encountered performance issues with deadlock conditions.

Defect 1440085: The revenue formula FVEAC did not include actuals in the computation.

Defect 1440998: Newly created EACs were not pulling prior year revenue.

Defect 1416278: The application allowed posting to inactive account/organization combinations.

Defect 1448104: The application took longer than expected to complete updating billing labor category descriptions.

Defect 1415999: The application allowed posting to inactive account/organization combinations.

Defect 1419798: When you made edits to Manage IWO Allocations (other than the exchange rate information), the system updated the initial exchange rate information and recalculated the amounts. This caused a rounding issue, which then resulted to unbalanced posting.

Defect 1443659: Performance issue: The application took longer than expected to complete processing.

Defect 1443897: You received the following critical system error when you ran this screen: "The multi-part identifier "s.COMPANY_ID" could not be bound."

Defect 1431975: You received a critical system error for deadlocks when you tried to update projects.

Defect 1376800: The following fields were missing in the Planning model and have been added:

• Last Period Closed

• Final Version

• Version Code

Defect 1397952: The Include Blanket POs and Include Subcontractor POs fields should have been removed from the prompt page of the Purchase Order Report.

Defect 1423879: When you ran the Purchase Order Report for multiple POs, only the first page displays the Subtotal section.

Defect 1424002: The Gross Margin and Net Income values on the Trended Income Statement did not match those on the legacy Income Statement. This error occurred when the Trended Income Statement was generated for all organizations at a lower level, such as the fifth level.

Defect 1433261: The measures for Actual (at Target Rate), Actual (at Actual Rate), and Budget were incorrect on the PSR Summary Data View. These measures did not display the sum of all the individual items in their subfolders, but only displayed the revenue-related subtotal type numbers.

Defect 1440703: The displayed data on the drill-thru report of the Contract FAR/Supplement did not correspond to the selected Risk Level.

Defect 1441648: The Prior Period in Relative Time displayed the Current Period.

Defect 1444044: Project Summary Report – Summary Data: The inception-to-date (ITD) number displayed on the report was the compounded figure for all prior subperiods instead of the ITD for the last subperiod. This error occurred when there were multiple subperiods.

Defect 1448076: For clients with User Defined code fields (UDT02 and likely UDT01 as well) where values were manually added, when they exported to Costpoint, the process exported null values for those fields.

Defect 1444470: When an advance on a blanket expense authorization was paid before the approval task was approved, the task for approving the advance erroneously set the expense authorization status to Processed.

Defect 1420896: Supervisors encountered the following error message when approving workflow: "You do not have rights to execute this process: Perform Expense Report Task."

Defect 1437308: Because it relied on an invalid leave type for determining whether a charge legitimately counted as Leave, Time and Expense incorrectly indicated that Leave was not charged in those instances. This affected all clients who have more than one leave type identified by the same UDT.

Defect 1445114: Users were presented with an error message declaring they had not entered a revision explanation before they actually had the opportunity to do so.