[621] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Re: SAP printing and testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David F Lambert)
Thu Oct 26 08:48:30 2000
Message-Id: <10010261248.AA19696@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 00 08:40:03 EDT
From: David F Lambert <LAMBERT@MITVMA.MIT.Edu>
To: "Lynne E. Durland" <durland@MIT.EDU>,
Enterprise Printing Delivery Project Team <printdel@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 25 Oct 2000 15:25:58 -0400
Gang,
Please recall that Jim Morgan had talked about the hope of killing
the monthly GL printing at the end of FY01. I spoke with Jim this
morning to see how he was feeling about the possibilities of still
killing the monthly printing this July. He doesn't think it will
happen due to the expected community uproar. So, it appears there
will be a need to continue to print the statements after 7/1/01.
At some point, we'll declare victory on our delivery project (aren't
you glad to hear that, Mary Ellen!), and this work will continue
as regular ongoing support & service of IPM. I think we should talk
more about the transition of our project work. If we don't, I can foresee
another "Admissions, Alumni, GL statement, etc." request followed by
another request, etc. So, we should focus on getting the core services
in place with a few new customers onboard and then declare victory.
Make sense?
-Dave
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 15:25:58 -0400 Lynne said:
>Greetings,
>
>I just got back from a meeting with deb sears, mark Sprague and Alan
>davidson regarding testing of printing through IPM from sap.
>
>Two key pieces of information from the meeting are:
>
>End user, non statement printing can go through IPM after the upgrade
>general timeframe of end of January.
>
>Monthly General ledger statement printing through IPM will not happen until
>the code to generate them is rewritten, "sometime" after the upgrade is
>complete.
>Translation rough tentative guess on using IPM, not before end of fiscal year.
>
>Ok that all said, I will send mail to r3 admin to request two sap printers,
>in the sf2, sf5, sf8 and ps1 environments that will point to a printer in
>w92 for the fss folks to test the sap 4.6 code and printing the non
>statement printing through IPM.
>
>Once that is complete and the upgrade done the production printers can be
>set up in IPM to do real printing for end users from SAP.
>
>
>We will be setting up a new, permanent general ledger monthly printing
>logical destination in IPM, when they are ready to start testing and
>printing the rewritten code. The "new" sap printer will be specifically
>set up to point to the IBM printers, retain the print for a specific period
>of time, etc.
>
>
>So good news and bad news but at least some progress has been made.
>
>Lynne
>
>
>
>Lynne E. Durland
>Information Systems
>Database Services
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>
> "The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change
>everything.....or nothing."
>
> Lady Nancy
>Astor
>
