UCSB Report to JOG - September 8-9, 1998:

• Development of the new JAVA environment and the Billing & Accounts Receivable (BARC) application continue. We are working feverishly to have critical pieces in place by the time we reach the point-of-no-return in December. IBM’s "Websphere" product was added to the list of components on which we are building.
• Y2K work continues with a handful of systems to go (Chancellor’s Correspondance, Parking, Budget and Staffing). Housing also has a set of six systems to repair or replace before the deadline.
• Transfer Articulation and Degree Audit have slowed while we upgrade to Sybase 11, PowerBuilder 6 and DARS 2.0.
• The Planning Office recently contracted with Infotech to digitize drawings for a major chunk of the instruction and research space on campus. We recently converted the space management system to Archibus/AutoCAD and retired the old FDX program.
• The 9672 was upgraded to an R61 (four additional processors for $54K) in April. We retired the 9121 processor and 3420 round tapes on June 30. The SNA and Net/One channels on the broadband network were also retired in June. We will shut down the broadband when the remaining six Ethernet attachments are converted to FDDI. The Xerox 4050 printer is next on the hit list.
• The UCSB – UCOP link is set to move to ANYNET at the end of September, allowing us to retire the last Comten front-end processor. At that point our SNA legacy tail will have been shortened to a couple of controllers and one voice response unit.
• The campus selected CorporateTime as the scheduling/calendaring standard and a campus-wide implementation has begun.
• We have a prototype LDAP server up and have demonstrated that Simeon communicates with it. Next steps in authentication are developing the process to populate the LDAP and keep it up to date, Kerberizing OS/390/Com-lete and experimenting with PKI components.
• The 800Mhz system is in production.
• The campus will likely form an Information Technology Board consisting of high level administrators and faculty and an Information Technology Planning Group consisting of technical staff from around the campus. This structure is patterned after the recommendations by Coopers & Lybrand in the UCLA study. The organization will likely remain until the new EVC (arriving October 1) and the new ITB have studied the issue.