UCSB Report to JOG - September 13-14, 1999:

• Development of the new JAVA environment and the Billing & Accounts Receivable (BARC) application continue. CashNet, the first major component to go into production has been running since July. Other components are scheduled to phase in over the next six months.
• Y2K remediation work has been completed. We are now testing with the Time Machine. No new problems have been reported. We are also mopping up a few non-mission-critical reports and tracking down a few non-compliant modems thought to be lurking in the backwaters of campus.
• Transfer Articulation and Degree Audit are ready to roll out.
• The campus space digitization project lurches forward. Negotiations with the vendor have been difficult.
• A new version of our venerable GL060 General Ledger report rolled out in July. This version supports a variety of new subtotals and included summaries of transactions coded with departmentally-controlled variables.
• We have implemented a test version of Model 25, the modeling component of the Schedule 25 classroom-scheduling program for the Registrar.
• Recent retirements included PROFS, FOCUS, the last Comten front-end processor, the broadband network and our long-time Operations Manager, Steve Neumann.
• CorporateTime, our scheduling/calendaring system, now includes 1100 faculty and staff and has been adopted as the standard by most divisions.
• Our LDAP server supports CorporateTime. We ran into a snag when we tried to change the schema in LDAP to support fields necessary for integration with UCDir. Some CorporateTime v.3 management utilities did not work with the new schema. Upgrading to CorporateTime v.4 seems to have solved the problems. We are now proceeding to merge UCDir data with the CorporateTime (and email) data currently stored there.
• Student Affairs recruited a new Director of Student Information Systems and Technologies (Deborah Scott). She will oversee the networking, web-development and financial aid programming units and be responsible for all IT issues and projects in the division.
• The Information Technology Board (ITB) continues to discuss organization of IT. The Information Technology Planning Group has drafted a paper putting all major IT infrastructure costs into context for the ITB.