[326] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Re: Bullet Items for Our FSS and R3-Admin Presentations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David F Lambert)
Fri Jun 23 08:34:51 2000
Message-Id: <200006231234.IAA23320@fort-point-station.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 00 08:26:18 EDT
From: David F Lambert <LAMBERT@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
To: "Rocklyn E. Clarke" <RCLARKE@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>,
Enterprise Print Delivery Team <PRINTDEL@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 22 Jun 00 21:51:45 EDT
On Thu, 22 Jun 00 21:51:45 EDT you said:
>Hi Team,
>
>I've expanded on the ASPCC bullets. Here is what I've got:
>
>Rocklyn
>
>
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>ENTERPRISE PRINTING (Centralized Printing Services)
>
>Who:
>The delivery team membership is Kip Bruggeman, Mary Ellen Bushnell,
>Rocklyn Clarke, Lynne Durland, Dave Lambert and Cecilia Talamantes
>
>Charter:
>Implement a new centralized printing system to manage print queues
>and printers based on the recommendations of the discovery project.
>The current central printing services are provided by the IBM
>mainframe. Most applications have migrated off the mainframe.
>
>Justification:
>- the mainframe is being phased out
>- simplify the ability to move print files from application servers to
> the print management system
>- the mainframe printing services do not support Postscript files; CAO
> requires large volume Postscript printing services
>
>Solution:
>- implement IBM's InfoPrint Manager
>- support network attached printers in a heterogeneous environment
>- utilize existing I/T assets across the legacy and new server
> environments more efficiently and cost effectively
>
>IPM Hardware & Software
>- Server runs on AIX / RS6000
>- IPM Operations GUI for AIX runs on server
>- IPM Administrator GUI for AIX runs on server
>- Security - Kerberos
>- InfoPrint Select for Windows Client (single print files)
>- InfoPrint Submit for Windows Client (mult. print files, var prt data)
>- InfoPrint Manager for the Web
>
>IPM Configuration
>- Logical Destinations, Queues, and Actual Destinations
>- Conversions (postscript -> IPDS, PCL -> IPDS)
>- Passthru mode (postscript -> postscript)
>- 3160 Printers (channel attach & ethernet attach)
>- VM Printing
>
>IPM Function
>- Queue management
>- Print file retention
>- Email notification & fax transmission
>
>Timeline:
>7/1/2000 finalize hardware and software configurations
>8/1/2000 rollout initial service
>9/1/2000 rollout large volume Postscript service
>
>Funding:
>Funding will be provided from the existing ASAP and ASOP budgets.
This looks like a reasonable list of additional technical topics.
You might want to include overlay capabilities and printer resolution
differences/handling. Additionally, it would be good to talk about
how you envision SAP will interface with IPM.
Rosenberg clearly isn't happy that we decided not to implement a
full document management solution. However, Roger was very adamant
at SAP-IT that we could not have accomplished what we needed to with
an expanded scope. We should also indicate that this is a early
check-in and many technical details still need resolving. We'll
definitely promise at least one additional check-in after we become
more familiar with the product and make further implementation decisions.
-Dave
