Does anyone know what tool can be used to look and edit the system rates in *RATEFILE?

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Is there a document that describes the format of the file?

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I would like to experiment with setting different rates. Is there anything else that I need to do to turn on real rates?

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I’m also not sure I understand the difference between IDR number , University Account Number and Unit code. Do any one of those provide a key value into rates? There isn’t much descriptive info on these in the ACCOUNTING documentation, other than that these three are apparently integers.? Also, when I create new ID’s, ACCMAINT sometimes barks at me about the “Account Number appears to be Invalid”.? I assume that ACCMAINT has some hard coded relationship between the 1^st letter of the ID and an allowable account number.

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Also, interesting that the BLOCK=xxxx parameter on ACCMAINT can only be used with IDs that start with certain letters. I assume this is some sort of U of M business office convention. ?

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Also, I know at WSU, they excluded all of the vowels as being allowed as the 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th character of the IDs, whereas it looks like the U of M convention was to just exclude I’s and O’s (so as not to mix them up with the numerals 0 and 1).

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Thanks

John