A319
Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Other / Unknown
ATC Issue All Types
General None Reported / Taken
ATC Equipment / Nav Facility / Buildings
Chicago Sector G76 called to APPREQ an A319 at FL360; IAFDOF at FL370 as he was requesting FL380 but had crossing traffic at both FL360 and FL380. G76 Controller PVDed the Data Block to me. I approved the IAFDOF; but noticed there was no flight plan for the A319 in my URET aircraft list. When this bug occurs; normally the flight plan populates the aircraft list when the Data Block is put into hand off mode. However; this time the aircraft flight plan didn't enter my URET list until after I had accepted the aircraft hand off. There was no way for me to perform a proper traffic search without a flight plan for that aircraft in my URET aircraft list; yet I had to accept a hand off before the flight plan populated the list. URET bugs need to be fixed. This as well as other bugs in URET have existed for years. Since my understanding is that the EDST in ERAM is the same program code as URET; this means that even with ERAM these bugs will exist.
ZMP Controller voiced concern regarding URET system with regard to populating the aircraft list with appropriate information.