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GMAS will be unavailable Tuesday, August 11th from 7:00 PM until the start of business on Wednesday, August 12th for release 1_54.3

GMAS has a scheduled release Tuesday night, the 11th, and will be unavailable starting at 7:00 PM until the start of business on Wednesday, August 12th. This release includes enhancements and bug fixes to the International Collaboration and Activity and Cost Sharing approvals, as well as other bug fixes and improvements. 

For full release notes please visit GMAS Release 1_54.3.

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GMAS Unavailable this Weekend for Release 1_53, available on April 27, 2020

GMAS has a scheduled release this weekend. The application will be unavailable starting at 7pm on Friday, April 24th. The new release will be available at the start of business on Monday, April 27th. This release includes a redesign of the cost sharing form and cost sharing approval, a new cost sharing request, new electronic signature for Initials and Renewal, and more. For full release notes please visit GMAS Release 1_53. Read more about GMAS Unavailable this Weekend for Release 1_53, available on April 27, 2020

GMAS Release 1_52 available Monday, November 18th

GMAS has a scheduled release this weekend. The application will be unavailable starting at 7pm on Friday, November 15th. The new release will be available at the start of business on Monday, November 18th. This release includes integration with ESTR, adding project summary to the initial and renewal request entry screen, adding the A21 code at the top of the segment homepage, and more. For full release notes, please visit GMAS Release 1_52...

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GMAS Stabilization Release - April 15th

GMAS will be unavailable starting at 7PM on Monday April 15th for a stabilization release. It will be available again no later than 8AM on Tuesday April 16th.

The stabilization release includes the following:

  • Refactoring of segment revision to prevent timeout errors on large projects
  • Default the IDC rate to null instead of 0% on the new budget entry screen for initial and competing renewals
  • Correction of a navigation issue from the edit budget screen to direct to the proposal homepage
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New Screen for Entering/Editing Interfaculty Involvement (IFI) in GMAS for December Release

In the GMAS release scheduled for December 14th, an enhanced “Edit interfaculty involvement” screen will be available from all requests. The enhanced screen includes the same functionality as the old screen, but also includes some exciting enhancements.

1. More than one interfaculty department and PI can be added from one screen 

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Harvard Data Warehouse (HDW) migration and outage, Sept. 20-24

As part of Harvard’s larger move to the Cloud, the Harvard Data Warehouse (HDW) will migrate from the data center at 60 Oxford St., Cambridge to Amazon Web Services (Cloud).

From 8 p.m. on Thursday, September 20th through Monday, September 24, as the migration is in process, the Harvard Data Warehouse will be unavailable.

As a result, certain Financial, Sponsored and/or Human Resource data in GMAS will be stale as of the end of the business day on Wednesday, September 19. GMAS will be brought up to date by 9am on Tuesday, September 25 when the HDW is back to normal...

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FSS Applications Website Moving to HUIT

The FSS applications website used by many people across the University will start redirecting people to a new applications page starting August 20th. Be sure to update your bookmarks for the applications page to huit.harvard.edu/apps/finance now!
 
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