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Student Financial Aid
Discussion List
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Preparing for the 25B ReleaseThe 25B Release is being targeted to deploy to your non production environments on April 7, 2025 and to your production environment on April 21, 2025. In this release we… -
Action Required: OCI Identity and Access Management IntegrationThe OCI Identity and Access Management (IAM) integration for Student Financial Aid (SFA), released with 25A, provides enterprise-grade identity and access management cap…
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Packaging Cross-Over Aid YearsAs you prepare for summer awarding, we wanted to provide this community with some helpful information on how award year selection is controlled within packaging. The fol… -
Support of Department of Education's February 21st 24/25 and 25/26 ISIR UpdatesOn February 21st the Department of Education released an update to Volumes 5 and 7 of the FAFSA Specification Guides for the 24/25 and 25/26 ISIR Award Years (found here… -
Guidance on preventing disbursements getting stuck in Origination Ready to be Sent to CODGuidance on preventing disbursements getting stuck in Origination Ready to be Sent to COD when a student is no longer attending a term: Oracle has identified an issue wh…
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COA_TERM_ACY configuration worksSummary: Our team has some questions about how the COA_TERM_ACY configuration works. Oracle’s description of this config workbook is found here: https://docs.oracle.com/… -
Tips: Monitoring Student Financial Aid (SFA) BugsSummary: During our recent customer collaboration events, we received a request to add additional information on existing bugs when they are published in My Oracle Suppo…
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Recording available for yesterday's Annual Review CCC EventYesterday we held an exciting event where we reviewed what we've accomplished this past year with Oracle Student Financial Aid and our product strategy as we look to the…
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Student Financial Aid Customer AssessmentStudent Financial Aid community, The Oracle team is looking to gather customers’ level of expertise across the various areas of product implementation and adoption. Your…
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Preparing for the March Maintenance Pack for 25AThe March Maintenance Pack for the 25A Release is being targeted to deploy to your non production environments on March 10, 2025 and to your production environment on Ma…
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ISIR Batch Correction UpdateOn an Electronic Announcement posted 11/8/2024, the Department of Education reversed its previous decision from July of not supporting Batch ISIR Corrections for the 24/…
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Plans to address Feb 11 2025 DoE announcement re: derived ISIR fields as FTI?In a Feb 11 2025 update to this Electronic Announcement, the Dept of Ed made the statement below about reclassifying several derived ISIR fields as FTI (Federal Tax Info… -
Important updates to Oracle SFP Administration Community Toolkit (SACT)The SFP Administration Community Toolkit (SACT) offers a community-driven toolkit for everyday use by professionals that work with Oracle SFP. The toolkit is comprised o…
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SSO Metadata Refresh AwarenessAfter the 24C release, updates were made to the format and content of our SFP SSO metadata. If you haven't refreshed your metadata post 24C, you may see interruptions to…
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25A upgrade blocking migration via migration center.Summary: Since our lower environment has been upgraded to 25A and we couldn't perform the migration by migration center this week because PROD is still on 24D, should we…
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NSLDS FAH Header Record DateSummary: I wanted to give a heads-up on an issue Michigan State University is currently experiencing with our FAH history files from NSLDS. We are receiving files, but t…
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Requests for the Verification Worksheet UpdatesThe Department of Education has updated the requirements for when a Verification Worksheet needs to be requested based on the Federal Register (Registers can be found fo…
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SACT v10 Update: Now Supports IAM (v2 API) IntegrationSummary: SACT v10 Update: Now Supports IAM (v2 API) Integration Content (please ensure you mask any confidential information): In the spirit of a Oracle SFP Administrati… -
Awarding Title IV Funds for 2025-26 Award Year Prior to Published Pell AmountsSince the Department of Education has not published the official min and max values for 2025-26 Pell, baseline configuration for Student Financial Aid does not yet inclu…
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Preparing for the February Maintenance Pack for 25AThe February Maintenance Pack for the 25A Release is being targeted to deploy to your non production environments on February 10, 2025 and to your production environment…
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Is there an administrator for student financial aid community?Summary: I apologize in advance if this question is not for the thread I would like to know how could someone request access to this community. Content (please ensure yo…
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Preparing for the 25A ReleaseWe are excited for the upcoming 25A Release, which we are targeting to deploy to your non production environments on January 6, 2025 and to your production environment o…
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PER_MONTH_PP COA Item Applicability and Partial MonthsSummary: How is the PER_MONTH_PP COA Item Applicability calculated when a student is attending for only part of a month? Content: The current product documentation does … -
What Comment Codes will make a student Pell ineligible?Summary: Prior to the 2024-2025 aid year, Oracle provided a list of comment codes in an SR that, if cleared after the end of a term, would make a student ineligible for …
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Support of the Department of Education’s December 27th ISIR updatesOn December 27th, the Department of Education released an update to Volumes 4B and 7 of the FAFSA Specification Guides. Those updates can be found here. After review, we…
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Generative AI Financial Aid Automation Configuration ToolkitWe are excited to announce the Generative AI Financial Aid Automation Configuration Toolkit, which supports and enhances the standard available SFP documentation of the …
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Does any one having the issue to query "PACKAGE_COA_ITEM_VW" ?Summary: Why is the PACKAGE_COA_ITEM_VW view timing out when queried, and could this be causing the timeout issue with the SFP Report View that returns each COA componen…
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Preparing for the November Maintenance Pack for 24DWe are excited for the upcoming November Maintenance Pack for 24D, which we are targeting to deploy to your non production environments on Dec 1, 2024 and to your produc…
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What SFP Report View returns each COA component?For Dept of Ed Financial Value Transparency reporting, there are separate columns for a student's annual costs of "Tuition and Fees" and "Books, Supplies, and Equipment"…
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BI Publisher report errors out with XMLPGEN-03111 : user requested cancel operationSummary: BI Publisher report errors out with XMLPGEN-03111 : user requested cancel operation our system time out set to 1800 Content (please ensure you mask any confiden…
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Optimizing Program Changes in SFAWe recently delivered a presentation to our Partners on Optimizing Program Changes in SFA. This comprehensive deck provides an in-depth explanation of how program change…
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Preparing for the 24D ReleaseWe are excited for the upcoming 24D release, which will be deployed to your non production environments on Oct 7, 2024, and wanted to share several resources available t…
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List of ISIR codes that are hard coded to " Do Not Require Resolution"Hello, we were wondering if we can get a list of all the comment codes that are hard coded in the logic to " Do Not Require Resolution". This is the admin UI > under ISI…
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Required Annual Runtime Certificate Update for FTI-SAIG Software UseIt has come to our attention that late last week ED has communicated information on the annual expiration of the runtime certificate that is required to be downloaded an…