IMA Release 9.01 Enhancements

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IMA Release 9.01 Enhancements
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Lesson Objectives
Upon completion of this lesson, you should be
able to

• Know the IMA 9.01 Release dates
• Discuss the impacts of each enhancement
• Recognize changes to IMA GUI as a result of
  Release 9.01

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Release Date

• IMA Release 9.01
• Installation begins Saturday, March 23, 2002
• In Production on Monday, March 25, 2002
• 600 AM Mountain Time

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Enhancements

• Geographic Deaveraging
• Spectrum Management
• Add Resale Frame Relay(RFR) on Conversion as Is
• Special Characters in LV1 Field Cause LSRs to Go
  Manual

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Enhancements, continued

• Request for APTCON Edit
• Request for Zip Code Edit
• Miscellaneous IMA CRs
• Additional UBL/LSNP SECNCI Codes Added
• OVERRIDE Edit in Appointment Scheduler

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Enhancements, continued

• LSR Rejection Related to CSR Retrieval
• Extra IMA Product NC Codes Added
• Appointment Scheduler - 3 Day Interval Supplement

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Geographic Deaveraging

• This change to IMA establishes functionality for
  geographic zone rating for 13 states (Idaho is
  excluded).
• Depending upon the state, deaveraged rates may be
  applied as either per rate group area or per zone
  pricing.
• Affected product USOCs will only be offered at
  deaveraged rates USOCs will not be manually
  rated.
• NOTE The FTS enhancement adding the new
  functionality
• will occur in the April 11, 2002 FTS release.
  IMA functionality
• will not occur until the FTS portion is complete.

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Spectrum Management
Currently CLECs can not order any of the new
Spectrum Management categories when placing a new
order. With this change to IMA, new NCI codes
and their associated USOCs will be added to IMA
as part of the LX-N NC codes. IMA will accept
LSRs with these new codes. This enhancement will
be available to all IMA previous releases
currently supported in the in production
environment.
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Add Resale Frame Relay(RFR) - Conversion as Is

• IMA will require that the RFR form be
• completed in addition to the LSR and EU
• forms when the product is RFR and the
• Activity type is W.

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Resale Frame Relay(RFR) Cont.
When the request is for RFR with Activity type of
W this new Order Information for New LSR
screen should display the RFR form.
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Special Characters in LV1 Field

• Address validations have been failing because
• special characters are entered in the LV1 field.
• The CLEC needs to be aware that if special
• characters appear in the LV1 field on the EUI
  form
• it will cause a service order error.
• The specific value that is being screened is an
  
• in the first position of the LV1 field and it
  will be
• ignored by FTS. This will not affect the content
  of
• the LSR as submitted.

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Request for APTCON Edit

• Currently, some CLECs are populating N/A in the
• APTCON field on the LSR form. LSRs with this
  value in
• the APTCON field err out because edits expect to
  find a
• FID to follow a /.
• With this release there will be a new edit that
  accepts
• only the following alphanumeric characters as
  valid
• values for input to the APTCON field
• A Z
• a z
• 0 9

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APTCON Edit Cont.

• The BPL will reject the LSR if the APTCON field
• contains special characters (i.e., other than
  letters and
• numbers). This will also generate an error
  message
• "A Z, a z, and 0 9 are the only valid
  characters allowed in the APTCON field."
• If the LSO field on the LSR is populated, the
  APTCON
• field can not be populated. If both are
  populated IMA
• will reject the LSR with the error message
• "APTCON must be blank when LSO populated.

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Request for Zip Code Edit

• Currently, the CALA/SAGA or Zip Code can be
  entered
• in the Loc Access/Inside Wire section on the End
  User
• form for New activity (ACT N). When the Zip
  Code is
• blank the service order will err out.
• This enhancement adds an edit that prevents an
  LSR
• with an ACT N and no Zip Code from being
  submitted
• by the CLEC.

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Miscellaneous IMA CRs

• Check Entire CSR to Match the Listed COS
• With this change to IMA the edit will be
  performed
• using all COS present on the entire CSR instead
  of
• only the first COS shown.
• Conflicting USOC CSR to LSR ACTC Only
• The USOC to USOC edit will be applied to the CSR
  to
• LSR comparison when the LNAC instead of LNAN,
• V, C.

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Additional UBL/LSNP SECNCI Codes Added
This change to IMA adds new SECNCI information to
existing tables used to edit LSRs submitted via
the GUI and interacting with Appointment
Scheduler. These additions will be made to
the SECNCI Code tables used for both Unbundled
Loop and Loop with Number Port orders.
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OVERRIDE Edit in Appointment Scheduler

• This change to IMA adds an edit to the APTCON
  field,
• which will only allow the use of the word
  OVERRIDE
• in that field for an Unbundled Loop or Loop with
• Number Port request.
• This includes REQTYP AB (Unbundled Loop) and
• BB (Loop with Number Port).

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LSR Rejection Related to CSR Retrieval

• IMA is incorrectly rejecting some orders that are
  correctly
• submitted. This is occurring due to the BPL not
  pulling the
• entire CSR at order time. If ownership
  information is not
• located within the pages retrieved, an error will
  be
• generated.
• "Ownership Error - CCNA does not match RSID or
  ZCID on the CSR and ACT
• is C (Account may be newly converted)"
• With this release the entire CSR will be
  retrieved to allow
• IMA to determine ownership.

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Appointment Scheduler - 3 Day Interval
Supplement

• IMA will be adding a Negotiated Business Rule
• for Unbundled Loop with Number Portability
• (LSNP). If IMA receives an LSR for LSNP Supp
• 1 or Supp 2, or if the Manual Indicator set to Y,
• Appointment Schedulers editing will be
• bypassed.

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Remember!!IMA 9.01 - 03/25/2002 600 AM
Mountain Time