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Updated List of ACE & Other System Changes Scheduled for Deployment

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its "ACE Workplan Schedule," which lists the changes and/or fixes to the Automated Commercial Environment (and other systems it interfaces with) scheduled for deployment from September 6 through November 2008.

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CBP has previously stated that this list contains only those changes and/or fixes that impact the trade community.

This list of changes contains either the change request (CR) code, or the problem tracking report (PTR) code, as well an explanation of the change:

Proposed Deployment Date of November 2008
PTR 29455Corrects instances in which FAST data is retained for conveyances that become non-FAST.
PTR 30292Corrects instances in which QP's do not properly link to PAPS shipments.
PTR 12890Changes the wording for the checkbox located in the In-bonds Due to Arrive portlet on the In-bond Arrival tab from "I want to cancel these Arrivals" to "Arrived."
PTR 21493Corrects instances in which the shipment commodity description is improperly displayed.

1See ITT's Online Archives or 09/09/08 news, 08090910, for BP summary of Phase 2's deployment.

Updated ACE Workplan Schedule (posted 10/27/08) available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/trade/automated/modernization/ace_workplan.ctt/ace_workplan.pdf