February 26, 2010
It has come to our attention that there is a slight glitch in the HMDA submission if you do both HMDA and CRA submissions from the same Comply system. If your institution falls into this category, when you go to do your HMDA submission you will most likely get RATA Validity Edits (VR) regarding NA in the geocoding fields. This only happens to HMDA reporters that also submit CRA. If you end up in this scenario, you cannot submit without a quick work-around.
To get around this situation, you will need to temporarily modify the CRA Respondent ID Number in the Transmittal information of the CRA Reporting Entity. All you have to do is temporarily change the last digit of the Respondent ID to a different number than the HMDA Reporting Entity. Once you do that, you can run the HMDA submission and as long as you have no other errors, the VR errors will disappear and the submission will work fine.
Once your HMDA submission is complete, simply correct the Respondent ID in the CRA Reporting Entity and then you can proceed with the CRA submission.
If you have any questions or comments or would like us to walk you through the process, just call us on Monday. It only takes a couple of minutes so there are no worries.
Hope that helps.
Team RATA