Joint Operations Group (JOG) Meeting of 9/15-9/16/97
1. Accounts Receivable: We are about to demonstrate our first prototype iteration, an address maintenance function built with Visual Age in JAVA. After studying Visual Cafe and Visual Age, our contractors recommended Visual Age as the development tool. The contractor is providing the development environment and our programming team will fill in the modules.
2. Travel Voucher System: The pilot group continues to test this JAVAscript application. We are struggling to debug and to improve response time. We have concluded that we overtaxed JAVAscript on this application and, depending on our experience with JAVA, will likely replace JAVAscript with JAVA for complex business applications.
3. CAD/FDX Project: We have entered into a partnership with our Budget & Planning and Facilities Management units to convert campus blueprints to digital format and link the resulting data base to a new space management system. The feasibility team recommended AutoCAD Version 14 with an Archibus overlay for creating, modifying and storing CAD drawings, the Archibus Space Management Module for viewing, modifying and administering space data, the Archibus Viewer for accessing space data and drawings and Cyco AutoManager Workflow for access security and document management. The Computer Center will provide infrastructure for the system using a dedicated NT server under a facility support contract.
4. Transfer Articulation/Degree Audit: The AIX version of DARS is finally producing degree audits after four version installations, several parameter adjustments and many conference calls to the developers in Ohio. We are currently linking the PowerBuilder transfer evaluation and articulation modules that we have built to SAG's Net-work middleware on the PC. When that link works we will be able to import course data from partner institutions with SPEEDE, integrate it with course data dynamically extracted from the Adabas student database and populate DARS input tables in AIX/Sybase. An AIX process will then use this data together with additional mainframe Adabas data to run an audit that reports progress toward a degree. The next step will be to build a web interface so students can run it themselves.
5. UCI/EQS: We imported the UCI Equipment Management System and have it working in our environment. In the process we converted to PowerBuilder 5. We will demo the system to our Equipment Management unit on October 15. If they like the functional features, we will estimate the effort required to integrate the system with our Adabas Purchasing, AP and G/L systems.
6. Year 2000 work continues with two contractors and a couple of our own staff contributing. So far all systems have come in under the budget we developed using the $1.30 per line of code estimate.
7. Divisional File Server: We continue to fight bugs in the Macintosh support modules of NT. We converted to NT 4.0.3 only to discover a massive memory leak. The good news is that Microsoft provided a patch and that part of the system is working better.
8. FAX Server: We are implementing a centralized FAX Server using software from OM Technology. When finished we will offer a service that supports FAX input and output to desktops on the network. Users will share a set of telephone lines using authorization codes to link long distance charges to subscribers accounts.
9. Legacy Tail Work: Includes the retirement of two Comten front end processors and the broadband network by December 31. Residual controllers will be supported by the 9672 Open Systems Adapter driving links over the Token Ring or, in some cases, twisted pair connected through IBM 2210 router/converters.