BENEF_COMMENT (SQL Table)	Index Back
EE/Dep/Benef Comment BENEF_COMMENT is used for informational purposes only. It contains benefit-related comments on the Employee, Dependents and Beneficiaries. The record is created manually using the Benefits Comments panel. Warning! For technical reasons, this record's schema shows that it is keyed by EMPL_RCD. This is not logically or functionally accurate. Throughout all of Base Benefits, when in the context of benefit enrollment, EMPL_RCD must be interpreted as an alias for BENEFIT_RCD_NBR. All benefit enrollment-related records are logically keyed by BENEFIT_RCD_NBR, so here EMPL_RCD actually contains the value of the appropriate BENEFIT_RCD_NBR. It is CRITICAL that all joins, comparisons, and updates to this record be against BENEFIT_RCD_NBR. Thus a typical driving join for benefit participation is PS_PER_ORG_ASGN.BENEFIT_RCD_NBR = PS_BEN_PROG_PARTIC.EMPL_RCD, and a typical join for benefit enrollment is PS_PER_ORG_ASGN.BENEFIT_RCD_NBR = PS_HEALTH_BENEFIT.EMPL_RCD. The security and search views used in Base Benefits perform this "mapping" internally.

BENEF_COMMENT

(SQL Table)

EE/Dep/Benef Comment

BENEF_COMMENT is used for informational purposes only. It contains benefit-related comments on the Employee, Dependents and Beneficiaries. The record is created manually using the Benefits Comments panel. Warning! For technical reasons, this record's schema shows that it is keyed by EMPL_RCD. This is not logically or functionally accurate. Throughout all of Base Benefits, when in the context of benefit enrollment, EMPL_RCD must be interpreted as an alias for BENEFIT_RCD_NBR. All benefit enrollment-related records are logically keyed by BENEFIT_RCD_NBR, so here EMPL_RCD actually contains the value of the appropriate BENEFIT_RCD_NBR. It is CRITICAL that all joins, comparisons, and updates to this record be against BENEFIT_RCD_NBR. Thus a typical driving join for benefit participation is PS_PER_ORG_ASGN.BENEFIT_RCD_NBR = PS_BEN_PROG_PARTIC.EMPL_RCD, and a typical join for benefit enrollment is PS_PER_ORG_ASGN.BENEFIT_RCD_NBR = PS_HEALTH_BENEFIT.EMPL_RCD. The security and search views used in Base Benefits perform this "mapping" internally.

# PeopleSoft Field Name PeopleSoft Field Type Database Column Type Description

1 EMPLID Character(11) VARCHAR2(11) NOT NULL Employee ID
Prompt Table: PERSON

2 DEPENDENT_BENEF Character(2) VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL Dependent Benefit
01=default
Prompt Table: DEPENDENT_VW

3 EMPL_RCD Number(3,0) SMALLINT NOT NULL Empl Record
Prompt Table: PER_ORG_ASGN_VW

4 COMMENT_DT Date(10) DATE NOT NULL Comment Date
Default Value: %date

5 COMMENTS_BY_NAME Character(50) VARCHAR2(50) NOT NULL Comments By

6 ACTION_DT Date(10) DATE Action Date

7 COMMENTS Long Character CLOB Comment

#	PeopleSoft Field Name	PeopleSoft Field Type	Database Column Type	Description
1	EMPLID	Character(11)	VARCHAR2(11) NOT NULL	Employee ID Prompt Table: PERSON
2	DEPENDENT_BENEF	Character(2)	VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL	Dependent Benefit 01=default Prompt Table: DEPENDENT_VW
3	EMPL_RCD	Number(3,0)	SMALLINT NOT NULL	Empl Record Prompt Table: PER_ORG_ASGN_VW
4	COMMENT_DT	Date(10)	DATE NOT NULL	Comment Date Default Value: %date
5	COMMENTS_BY_NAME	Character(50)	VARCHAR2(50) NOT NULL	Comments By
6	ACTION_DT	Date(10)	DATE	Action Date
7	COMMENTS	Long Character	CLOB	Comment