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Archived System CR SCR100914-1 Detail

Form/Transaction/Process Impacted: Number Port (NP)

LSR Activity:

Z – Conv as Spec/No DL

V – Conversion As Spec

Status History

Project Meetings

Denise Martinez – CenturyLink stated that it was not an issue with the GUI or XML IMA release but rather with the CLEC conversion activities for that weekend.

Kim Isaacs – Integra confirmed the problem was with the conversion activities and not with the IMA Release itself. Kim said there had been questions in Integra with why there was a delay.

Susan Lorence – CenturyLink asked if it was appropriate to talk to the Walk-on at this time. She asked Kim Isaacs – Integra to present the Walk-on that was submitted on August 12, 2015 that was included on Page 79 of the July 2015 System package.

Kim Isaacs –Integra recapped the Walk-on request. After the July mid cycle conversion was rescheduled, Integra received an email from the EIS team that set off a “tempest in a teapot” trying to understand the purpose. Kim said some concerns with the email were: why was the request sent to a broad distribution, why not use Integra IMA XML contacts as listed in the CLEC Questionnaire, why was certain information requested again that CenturyLink already has access to, requesting a one day turn around for the Integra response was not acceptable, and that including a Subject is a business courtesy.

Denise Martinez – CenturyLink said that she thought there may be some misunderstanding about who the EIS team email was sent to. She explained that this was not sent to a broad distribution but rather was sent as a follow-up to confirm details to only a limited list of contacts that were impacted by the delay of the Mid cycle migration and who had already been certified. Denise said it only went to those contacts who had previously been contacted by Denise by phone as a courtesy received the email.

Kim Isaacs – Integra stated that it seemed that the Integra email recipients were not those that would have been involved with the migration.

Denise Martinez – CenturyLink stated that Kim and Stephanie Prull – Integra were identified for the email and no one else from Integra should have received it. Denise explained that, regarding the Questionnaire, the customers contacted were the ones that had initially sent in details for the Mid cycle conversion. Denise said this was not intended to be a broad System distribution so it was not sent as a CMP notification. Regarding the issue of requesting Trading Partner ID, etc. and other information previously available, Denise stated that Frank Dolinar had been introduced in CMP a month or so earlier as the new CenturyLink EIS team contact and this was his first attempt at contacting people. The short timeframe was due to the fact that this was not intended to be a CMP notice but just a way to confirm Frank had the correct information. As to the missing “Subject” line, Denise agreed and apologized.

Kim Isaacs – Integra thanked Denise.

Denise Martinez – CenturyLink stated in regard to the concerns with the Questionnaire, CenturyLink would continue to research and that it would be helpful if Integra could send specific examples.

Kim Isaacs – Integra stated that there were ongoing issues with Questionnaire and the Subscription tool and that they would look for examples to provide.

Susan Lorence – CenturyLink stated that we would take this as an Action Item and would investigate any examples that Integra provided. She then returned to the issue of closing the three IMA Release 38 CRs and asked if there were any objections to closing those – especially from those who had migrated.

Kim Isaacs – Integra said they had some problems when they were coming back online after the migration but those seem to be resolved.

Susan Lorence – CenturyLink asked if there were any other objections. There were none.

07/15/15 Monthly Systems CMP Meeting SCR091214-1 IMA LNP Data TN edit SCR091214-2 IMA – Duplicate Port Request Edit SCR100914-1 IMA – TN Range Edit Mark Coyne – CenturyLink said these CRs are associated with the IMA Release 38.0 that was implemented April 20, 2015. He said we are holding the CRs open until the next CLEC migration to XML which is scheduled for July 18, 2015. We will review these in August to move them to Completed status.

6/17/2015 Monthly Systems CMP Meeting SCR091214-1 IMA LNP Data TN edit SCR091214-2 IMA – Duplicate Port Request Edit SCR100914-1 IMA – TN Range Edit Mark Coyne – CenturyLink said these CRs are associated with the IMA Release 38.0 that was implemented April 20, 2015. He said we are holding the CRs open until the next CLEC migration to XML which is July 18, 2015.

5/20/2015 Monthly Systems CMP Meeting SCR091214-1 IMA LNP Data TN edit SCR091214-2 IMA – Duplicate Port Request Edit SCR100914-1 IMA – TN Range Edit Mark Coyne – CenturyLink said these are the IMA Release 38.0 CRs that were implemented the weekend of April 20, 2015. He said that there was a CLEC migration weekend on May 16, 2015. We had two CLECs scheduled to migrate that weekend but they moved to the next migration weekend of July 18, 2015. Mark asked if it was OK to move these CRs to a Completed status.

Kim Isaacs – Integra said that IMA CRs are normally left open until a CLEC migrates to XML and asked if the CRs could remain open until then.

Mark Coyne – CenturyLink said we will hold these CRs open until after the July migration and revisit them in August.

4/15/2015 Monthly Systems CMP Meeting SCR091214-1 IMA LNP Data TN edit SCR091214-2 IMA – Duplicate Port Request Edit SCR100914-1 IMA – TN Range Edit Mark Coyne – CenturyLink said these three IMA Release 38.0 CRs will be implemented the coming weekend effective April 20, 2015.

3/18/2015 Monthly Systems CMP Meeting SCR091214-1 IMA LNP Data TN edit SCR091214-2 IMA – Duplicate Port Request Edit SCR100914-1 IMA – TN Range Edit Mark Coyne – CenturyLink provided status on these three IMA Release 38.0 CRs. He stated the Final XML Tech specs were sent March 6, 2015, the Draft GUI Release Notes are due March 23, 2015, the Final GUI Release Notes will be sent March 30, 2015, and that the IMA release is scheduled for implementation April 20, 2015.

2/18/2015 Monthly Systems CMP Meeting Mark Coyne – CenturyLink said these are the three CRs associated with IMA Release 38.0. The Draft Technical Specification were sent February 6, 2015. The Technical walkthrough was held February 16, 2015. Final XML Tech specs are due March 6, 2015. The IMA Release 38.0 is scheduled for implementation April 20, 2015.

1/21/2015 Monthly Systems CMP Meeting Mark Coyne – CenturyLink said these are the three CRs associated with IMA Release 38.0. The Draft Tech specs are to be sent February 6, 2015. The Technical walkthrough is scheduled for Monday, February 16, 2015 at 10 am MT. The IMA Release 38.0 is scheduled for implementation April 20, 2015.

11/19/2014 Monthly Systems CMP Meeting UNDER ATTACHMENT I Mark Coyne – CenturyLink said the high level LOE for this CR is - 1400-1700 hours. The CR has been scheduled for IMA Release 38.0.

UNDER ATTACHMENT M Mark Coyne – CenturyLink said the new IMA Change Request SCR100914-1, IMA TN Range edit, has been included in the package for IMA Release 38.0. The release package now totals approximately 5600-6500 hours. Mark said we will be sharing the overall 2015 release capacity by early December and will review it in the December meeting. Mark said he did not think the 2015 release capacity would be changing much from 2014 so IMA Release 38 should remain as is.

10/15/2014 Monthly Systems CMP Meeting. Denise Martinez – CenturyLink presented this new CR to implement an upfront edit in IMA when consecutive TNs in a range are entered individually vs. a range on an LSR. The edit is specific to number portability requests for activity of either Z or V. Denise said there has been an increase where a TN range is not used which causes processing problems. When each TN is requested separately, the LSR becomes very large and requires them to be handled manually causing more work for both CenturyLink and the CLEC. In addition, any subsequent requests have to be handled manually. Denise said the upfront edit would provide a reject reason that indicates the consecutive TNs must be entered as a range.

Kim Isaacs – Integra asked how large the required range would be – five or a block of 20 DIDs?

Denise Martinez – CenturyLink said initially it would be anything greater than three but it would be monitored and configurable if it should be made larger.

Jeff Sonnier – Sprint asked will the edit occur if due dates are different on consecutive numbers.

Denise Martinez – CenturyLink said there should be an LSR for each due date and they are edited individually.

Jeff Sonnier – Sprint gave an example of telephone number A for one date and telephone number B for a different date.

Denise Martinez – CenturyLink said they would be looked at individually.

Kim Isaacs – Integra said she was concerned with the low number and asked if work had started and felt the number should be raised.

Denise Martinez – CenturyLink said based on CenturyLink analysis, three seems to be appropriate but the edit would be configurable.

Kim Isaacs – Integra said Integra has had cases in 2014 where ranges were used and not all numbers were in the SOA but she did not know if that was due to human error during manual handling. Her assumption is that testing on this new edit would occur through the backend to SOA. Denise Martinez – CenturyLink said normal testing does not involve the NPAC/SOA.

Kim Isaacs – Integra said CenturyLink number portability includes automation and they have had problems where numbers in a range are not concurred and requests CenturyLink perform downstream testing.

Denise Martinez – CenturyLink said she would check on the NPAC testing and that she understood the concern and would see what could occur to alleviate it.

Frank Behnke – AT&T asked when the CR would be implemented.

Mark Coyne – CenturyLink said CenturyLink is looking at IMA Release 38.0 next April.

Susan Lorence – CenturyLink said we hope to have the LOE in November to determine how it fits with either Release 38 or Release 39 packaging.

Mark Coyne – CenturyLink said it will depend on the capacity for the release whether prioritization will need occur. The release capacity for the next year is shared in either November or December.

NOTE – CMP CALL FOLLOWUP: The following response was sent to Integra on October 15, 2014 regarding concerns with the proposed TN Range edit: After the CMP monthly call this morning, Denise Martinez followed up with additional SME team members related to your questions on the new CenturyLink CR SCR100914-1, IMA - TN Range Edit. Denise received information from the Orderpath (NPAC) contact that they had investigated a couple issues on TNs within a range not being concurred but those issues were on the Retail side. The Orderpath contact has been able to identify the causes of those cases.

The SME team indicated that they would be happy to investigate any problems Integra has encountered. If you could provide some recent examples, that would be great.

CenturyLink Response