CCDD Technical Specification; Planned Change Update

Hello
This posting is to formally announce and describe the planned change to the next version of the Technical Specification. The changes were mainly driven by the French description requirements.

Please find the Technical Specification with changes tracked here CCDD Technical Specification Planned New Version

To summarize the changes:
• The existing French Description attribute descriptions have been edited to clarify the type of description
• A French description attribute has been added to the TM files and the coded attribute file.
• A new file has been added that provides the MP, NTP and TM relationships with French descriptions
• The character length for the attribute_value attribute in the Coded Attributes file has been increased from 50 to 500 to accommodate the French descriptions and future requirements.
• The available formats of the CCDD on the Terminology Gateway have been clarified
• The status effective date for the TM, NTP and MP files has been updated to align with what is actually been published

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The anticipated date for the CCDD to be released in the new format will be September at the earliest. We plan to provide test files in advance to confirm there are no issues.

thankyou
Beverly