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EAST Monthly Status Report for November 2001
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rocklyn E. Clarke)
Sun Dec 9 00:51:15 2001
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From: "Rocklyn E. Clarke" <rclarke@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Enterprise Application Software Team <east@mit.edu>,
"Belton, Preston D Todd" <tbelton@mit.edu>,
"Johnson Sr, Nathaniel J" <njj@mit.edu>,
"Roach, Roger A" <rar@mit.edu>, "Dolan, Edward F" <edolan@mit.edu>
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Hello,
Here's the November EAST Report.
Rocklyn
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EAST Monthly Status Report for November 2001
Team Name: Enterprise Application Software Team (EAST)
Team Leader: Rocklyn E. Clarke
Report Date: December 8, 2001
URL: http://web.mit.edu/east/www/
General
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General Goals for November 2001 ("c" indicates carryover):
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c Finalize plans for team member career development
c Prepare job descriptions for consultant and students
c Test VPNs for remote EDI and IPM remote admininistration
- Finish individual EC3 modules
- Get revised MIT Apache distribution with .htaccess mods
- Get approval for new business model and implement it
General Accomplishments for November 2001 ("c" indicates carryover):
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- Began process of hiring a new EAST staff member
- Decided to bring on an additional consultant for COEUS work
- Prepared team contribution to the IS Budget process
- Began building calculations for the new business model
- Purchased reading material on VPNs & SSH
- Kelly Yu and Jennifer Lu have each completed one EC3 module with one to go
General Goals for December 2001 ("c" indicates carryover):
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c Finalize plans for team member career development
c Test VPNs for EDI and IPM remote admininistration
- Finish individual and team EC3 modules
- Get revised MIT Apache distribution with .htaccess mods
- Get approval for new business model and implement it
- Interview potential consultant for COEUS work
General Issues:
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- Enterprise Printing continues to require a significant time commitment
- Need to get all team members working 20% time on team tasks
- Jana Tarasanko has moved to TNS
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COEUS
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Goals for November 2001 ("c" indicates carryover):
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c Complete EDI 850 transaction upload to Coeus
c Test Coeus 3.8 and fix any problems
c Continue Java learning excercise
- Complete Conflict of interest module.
Accomplishments for November 2001:
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- Working on Coeus 3.8
- Completed Conflict of Interest module.
- Completed loading 850 transactions to Coeus database as awards
- Completed creation of awards based on EDI transactions
- Coeus 3.8 testing is still going on
Goals for December 2001 ("c" indicates carryover):
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c Continue Java learning excercise
- Source code freeze for Coeus 3.8 should happen in first week of December
- testing of Coeus 3.8 by users at OSP
- Release Coeus 3.8 to OSP
- Migrate test database to Coeus 3.8
- Work on installers for Coeus 3.8
COEUS Issues:
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None
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SAPweb
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SAPweb Goals for November 2001 ("c" indicates carryover):
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c Set up documentation for key SAPweb maintenance tasks
c Make requested changes to displayed help desk phone numbers
c Plan work to provide automated SAP system status info to SAPWeb clients
c Plan upgrade of "Sporkie", the SAPweb test/development server
- Resolve problems using Internet Explorer to create requisitions in SAPweb
SAPweb Accomplishments for November 2001:
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- ECAT items are covered in the ECAT project report (Lorraine Rappaport)
- Bug related to check details handling addressed via SAP internal code fix
- SAPweb code now reads business-help footer from single internal source
- SAPweb page footers revised to include BLT phone number
- Culebra version of SAPweb now in synch with code from test server
- Local code changes now in synch with RCS archives in sapweb locker
- Makefile adjusted to accomodate Facilites code
SAPweb Goals for December 2001 ("c" indicates carryover):
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c Plan work to provide automated SAP system status info to SAPWeb clients
c Plan upgrade of "Sporkie", the SAPweb test/development server
c Resolve problems using Internet Explorer to create requisitions in SAPweb
- Fix bug involving reqs with large number of POs attached.
- Fix JavaScript problem when using Internet Explorer to access SAPweb
SAPweb Issues:
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None
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TNS
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TNS Goals for November 2001:
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- Continue testing ICE-9 on development machine for 5ESS Switch replacement.
- Finish testing with CAO and place into production new OPX billing feature.
TNS Accomplishments for November 2001:
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- Fixed 23 Service Orders.
- Produced 16 Ad-hoc reports.
- Modified and tested SAP billing of one time new equipment charge
- Modified source code to print new label for ISDN-7506 on ICE9.
- Modified and tested new Off-premises(OPX) phone billing feature.
- Installed updated OPX(Off-premises) screen and Account Updating screen
on client machines.
- Modified the source code of Account Audit Screens for sorting sequence.
- Work on the procedures to load MOIRA IPs into TNS billing.
TNS Goals for December 2001:
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- Finish loading MOIRA IP data into TNS billing.
TNS Issues:
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None
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Team Dynamics:
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Adjusting to Jana's transition and eventual arrival of new staff members
Learnings:
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None
Additional Comments:
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None
