This guide describes the suggested steps for migrating customers from classic USPS to USPS-R. The article assumes that the district instance has already been configured as described in Production Release - Setting Up a District Instance/wiki/spaces/rtd/pages/2753067.
Step-by-step guide
- Review the information contained on the Pre Data Extract Procedures page.
- Extract classic data as described in the USPS Classic Extract Process.
- Pay particular attention to the parameters that this procedure accepts especially P3 (the third parameter).
- USPS-R can extract and import the existing payrollcd archives into the application file store and P3 facilitates this when set to "TRUE".
- It is likely most districts will want this when extracting and importing for the final time.
- This does increase the extract and import times along with requiring more disk space, so the step may be excluded for trial and/or preliminary imports.
- Pay particular attention to the parameters that this procedure accepts especially P3 (the third parameter).
- Review the USPS_{IRN}.LOG file to verify the extract was successful.
- Import the extracted data into USPS-R as described in Import Classic Data into USxS Redesign.
Review the resulting uspsimport.log file for errors
Info The end of the import log will have a binary status that will indicate whether the importer ran to completion. It will appear similar to the following example.
districtname_uspsimport_1 exited with code 0
A code of 0 indicates the importer ran to completion whereas a code of 1 signifies the importer terminated with an unknown exception.
Please note: A status of 0 does not mean there were no errors and the logs should still be reviewed. This status simply means the importer ran to completion. A status of 1 always indicates a failure. With a status of 1 the underlying cause will need to be determined and the import will need to be re-run after the issue is corrected.
Futher information on common errors and warnings can be found in the USPS-R Common Importer Errors and Warnings guide.
Review the information on the Post Import Procedures page.
Once a successful import has been certified we recommend immediately creating a database backup using the /ssdt/script/backup-usps.sh script.
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