At sunny Marham we've not been issued our passwords on Sqn yet, apparently the roll out for us has been delayed by another week. Sounds like a certain South African mining company have sold us another gem.

Units have been asked by the RAF Focal Point to stagger their issue of PW's and Log-ins so as not to deluge the RLI with traffic causing it to fold. This will be the only time in the RAF when this much traffic needs to be communicated over the network, due to evryone wanting to carry out the same transactions at the same time. Once everyone has inputed their self-service user data, the traffic should die down somewhat. Then most personnel will only log on once/twice a month?

FFP. Sorry my mistake. I asked the man in charge today about the FSI issue and it appears FSI is still issued but, like you say, If the rate was £21 for a meal then you would have to produce reciepts for the expenditure and give back any under spend! So its capped actuals from FSI. He mentioned taking advances ? but I wasn't sure what he meant so I won't confuse the issue.

No Passwords at Lossie yet either, I suppose the headline "JPA goes live without faults" doesnt need explaining with "first passwords due out any month now". Good news is if the pay run goes ok camps might start getting their passwords.

Only good thing about JPA is I won't have to spend my time telling PSF what their job is, as they stare mouths full of food because "they are having their dinner" as they never had time at lunch time having spent it in the gym.

Have got my JPA password and have managed to login.

However, it has proved difficult to correct the wrong information entered into my account as the server must be overwhelmed - it is exceedingly slow.

As an example, in answer to the security question "place of birth", the answer recorded is my NI number - and it won't let me change it.

If everyone could logoff whilst I update my info, and check my bank details that would be nice.

WTN

I'm starting to wonder if JPA is actually a denial-of-service attack by the Chinese. :}

Sorry for misleading......I've not moved yet but am going to , as it is my first move since being married I've been told I'm not entitled to my removals being paid for but I am emtitled to DA. PSF are currently closed due to JPA and I've not been issued with my password so no idea how much DA I will get!!!:ugh:

Back to the top for SirSalties benefit,

HEDP

So the tale continues....
I am entitled to both DA and Removals, DA is now £969, trying to get anywhere with JPA is a struggle, spoke to the JPAC, best advice wat to speak to my HR Dept???? Is that the PSF that is now closed for JPA training I asked, no idea was the answer, the next question was who or what post within the HR Dept would she reccomend I spoke to, I dont know were her words of wisdom!!! Ridiculous!!:mad:

OOPS Sorry!!

Nay problems mate, just dont know how to link the two:O

HEDP

Don't hold your breath. We have had ours issued but the web page doesn't stay connected long enough to be of an use. Me thinks it's HOOP:mad:

Well still no password, hope I (and others) can get on before any pay screw ups due to incorrect details. If its as slow as people say, whats it going to be like when the Army and Navy get on to it. Also believe that the Army are keeping all their Admin types until it has proved to work, seems like a bit of sense, unkike the RAF.

My JPA screen usually consists of.........

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

I got on yesterday, hung around until after 1700 and it worked well..... However...... My "anualised" salary was a mere 10K less than it should have been (not including flying pay, I am aware that it's just basic pay "anualised"). Spoke to JPAC and HR today... awaiting response.

:eek:

Had a problem with pay so spoke to my PSF staff......who told me to contact JPAC..........who told me to contact my unit HR staff.........who told me to contact JPAC........who told me to contact my unit HR staff.......anyone for tennis??? This new sytem is f:mad:g a:mad:e :*

Well got my password etc at last, and what a disappointment, now i realise what people have been talking about. Each function took around 2 minutes, it lies to you with errors etc. I tried to check personal info and pay details, after 40 minutes of frustration and nothing achieved I gave up. Then couldnt log out. Phoned JPAC, answered fairly promptly and then couldnt achieve anyting as it was stated that the server was pretty much down since 10 am, but I.T. was on the case. Im all for giving this thing a chance, but a poor start, hows this going to give people confidence in the system. Whats it going to be like when the Navy and Army come online? I would have thought it would have been prudent to prove the system before releasing it, or are we the guinea pigs. Bring back the paper office till they get this mess sorted and then try again when fit for purpose!!!

couldnt agree more, 2 minutes was at best and as you say most of the time was spent watching the blue bar not move.

I read yesterday that something like 13,000 had not yet (as of yesterday) got usernames and passwords. So how will it perform when we can all attempt to log on ?

S_H

I got sick and tired of the damn thing crashing - until yesterday when I tried to log on at 18oo. Straight in and sorted out promtly. All you shifties/midnight oil burners take note, the only way to use this white elephant at the moment is when the 0800-1700ers are at home!

So much for the fiasco of ensuring our paper docs were correct before the data was transferred. All the bits that should have been corrected are still wrong and I am 'not permitted' to change them. Mind blowingly slow if it works at all, utter rubbish..........