JR Schulden, IST–SIS
In April, IST staff members began the large project of migrating UC Berkeley's IDMS/MVS–based administrative applications to IBM's DB2 relational database management system. The goal is to have all IDMS systems converted to DB2 by December 2003. The standard administrative relational database for University of California financial applications, such as the Payroll and Personnel System (PPS), is DB2. UC Berkeley's new financial management and human resource management applications (BFS and HRMS) use DB2. Converting the core student systems and accounts receivable application (CARS) to DB2 will consolidate all major UC Berkeley administrative systems in a common database.
Our project partner, ManTech Corporation, will perform the conversion of the application software and database schemas off-site. IST staff will be responsible for the final testing of the converted systems here at Berkeley with the help of financial and student services personnel. The size of this job is enormous, involving thousands of data fields and programs and the business processes they support. While individual applications are being worked on, all enhancements to those programs, except those due to federal and state regulation changes, will be postponed until the converted system is in production. We are optimistic that we can move in phases and thereby minimize the time any particular system is frozen.
The following systems depend on IDMS and will be affected by this conversion:
If you have any questions or concerns about this process, feel free to contact me, 642-1618, schulden@socrates.berkeley.edu.
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Berkeley Computing & Communications,
Volume 12, Number 3 (Summer 2002)
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