[650] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
A moment of dancing and joy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lynne E. Durland)
Wed Nov 1 14:53:26 2000
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Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 14:57:37 -0500
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From: "Lynne E. Durland" <durland@MIT.EDU>
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I have finally successfully printed a single copy of an "x" form through IPM.
Now the real work in this area begins, in getting all of the forms moved over.
On the mainframe, historically, for reasons of hiding stuff, i.e. making
them obscure, the overlays, formdefs, and pagedefs have had these really
funky names.
For instance the form x086 which is the grade sheet for the registrar is,
upon submission form x086, but the names of the supporting afp resource
files are: o1rpsg10, o1rpsg11, f1rpsg10 and p1rpsg20 respectively. As we
continue in the move to IPM do we want to maintain this naming convention?
There are arguments for and against keeping this scheme.
Some of the for arguments:
we already have them in place
we should not have to remember mainframe one name, IPM another name
not much work to maintain the names as the files are created for IPM
helps to prevent or slow down the hack process
Some of the against arguments:
the names are obscure and hard to remember (need to maintain a paper or
electronic translation table)
there is some extra work involved to get the "obscure" names on the
overlays in particular in the compilation process
the mainframe will eventually go away and as things are moved to IPM the
assumption is they will no longer be used on the mainframe
Food for thought...........Not sure if this is really a team level problem
or one I should just handle myself.
Lynne
Lynne E. Durland
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"The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change
everything.....or nothing."
Lady Nancy
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