Well I just found this little jewel sitting in my inbox when i arrived at work today. Doesn't exactly inspire confidence
Difficulties with JPA system performance have been ongoing for some time and are well documented. Strenuous efforts have been made to overcome these problems and considerable progress has been made however, system performance is not at a position where we can be confident it will not have an impact on key activities such as running the payroll process.
In order to ensure that the RAF payroll can be run, system access will be limited to AFPAA from 1700hrs, 18 Apr 06 . From this time all other users will be excluded from the system, including access to the Enquiry Centre (EC). This restriction will apply for 24 – 48 hours until payroll has been completed, when notification will be sent out lifting this restriction.