B737-700
Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Situational Awareness
ATC Issue All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
General None Reported / Taken
ATC Equipment / Nav Facility / Buildings; Human Factors; Procedure
I accepted the hand off for a B737 from Sector 50 outside of the Jackal MOA/ATTCA. I had just recently taken the sector. ERAM was showing Jackal hot but there was no displayed altitude. I also had just received two hand offs from Sector 50 who were both landing ELP. The trailing aircraft; a GLF5; was 55 KTS faster than the B737 which I had to sequence for ELP. I started my sequencing and then realized I still did not have any altitudes displayed in Jackal. I went back to my tools and displayed them to realize that it was active to FL390. At this point the B737 was about 1.5 to 2 minutes from clearing the airspace. The aircraft in Jackal limited Data Block showed they were at around FL340. The other controllers URET should have been alerting them prior to hand off. I would suggest that an altitude post automatically when airspace goes hot in your stratum. If you don't want it to display than you can suppress it; but the default should be on. It should also show hot only when it is actually in your stratum; currently it will show active even it does not penetrate your airspace.
ZAB Controller described an airspace incursion event inidicating the ERAM system did not contain needed airspace information.