[663] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
A moment of dancing and joy (electronic forms w/ IPM)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David F Lambert)
Sun Nov 5 18:04:57 2000
Message-Id: <200011052304.SAA03189@fort-point-station.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 00 17:59:41 EST
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, 01 Nov 2000 14:57:37 -0500
Lynne,
I know this is a topic for tomorrow morning's meeting. My guess is
we'll defer the decision to your fine judgment. Congratulations!
For normal human beings - 'x' forms on the mainframe denote the use
of electronic flash forms. We need the same capability on IPM to
handle the SIS upgrade and any other customers like the Credit Union
who use electronic forms.
-Dave
On Wed, 01 Nov 2000 14:57:37 -0500 Lynne said:
>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
>Information Systems
>Database Services
>W91-109
>O: 617-258-5857
>C: 617-293-8091
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>H: KB1FEM
>
> "The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change
>everything.....or nothing."
>
> Lady Nancy
>Astor
>
