Banner2000 Project Steering Committee Minutes

Banner SIS Project

Steering Committee Minutes

April 4, 2011

Attendance: / Julie Litmer-Schwaller, Kim de Leon, Cheryl Hine, Karen Ramsey Mielke, Thang Tran, Pam Michalec, Terry Coonan, Marvin Haugk, Sue DeChant, Jim Richardson, Jan Nichols, Vladimir Rynkov, Laurie Colchin, Taylor Venable

Banner Lab PCs – How to Establish IE Defaults – Kim and Julie demoed and reported the need to activate IE settings on the lab PC’s. If these are not activated users cannot run jobs in Banner or Cognos Excel and .csv files.

Clean up of O drive – Julie reminded everyone to be sure to keep the O: drive cleaned up. Julie asked that everyone double check the files and delete any that are not needed. Marvin reported there has been discussion on buying inexpensive, slower speed storage space for long term storage. Julie asked everyone to report back to her when done checking and cleaning the files.

TRNG Data Refresh – Began as 1 PM Today - Karen reported the TRNG system is being refreshed. The image was taken from PROD around 10:00 this morning.

Wait Listing Status – Julie asked for Nancy about updates for schedule of classes. Terry was not sure of the status but did not think it was done.

PPRD Status – Data was restored in early March. The Edirectory has been a struggle. Taylor and Terry Dougherty are taking the lead and working on recreating electronic processes Bob M. previously did manually.

ODS Issues from Upgrade – Kim reported ODS appears to be running OK after reload this weekend. A check report is now running that can help verify the data is migrating to ODS as it should.

Banner Conference Debriefing (12 People attended Summit)

Jim – sessions on Oracle 11g and ODS streaming. He has a better understanding of streams and more information being made available from SunGard on a regular basis. Discovered databases have to be moved to 11g before other types. Password rules will be changing within 11g including mixed case. He also attended sessions on new Mobile apps and Banner identity services.

Karen – sessions on Horizons, Banner 8 security, disaster recovery, Banner 9, middle-ware tier for Mahmudur and INB forms. Horizon early releases scheduled to start at the end of the year.

Kim – sessions on BI organization, ODS and EDW changes, DegreeWorks algorithms and scribing, CAPP XML output code, new Student Retention and Performance piece using ODS and a piece of EDW.

Pam – sessions on managing AR with custom views instead of population selection. This would help with refunding, but no archives would be available, simplifying write offs, crossover terms and accounting, TouchNet and contracts.

Thang – sessions on Pell and aid year crossovers, algorithmic processing and algorithmic budgeting. Parents and students can now decline listing their income and assets on the FAFSA. Attended training on direct lending.

Taylor – sessions on Luminis and Luminis 5, overall Banner updates for familiarity, technical status of the portals, etc. Julie requested list of items that may not be available in Luminis 5 that are currently available in 4. No sessions from schools who moved from 4 to 5.

Vlad – sessions on Luminis, developing portlets, upgrade issues from 4 to 5, BEIS, and mobile apps.

Sue – sessions on Luminis and Luminis 5, project scopes, architecture, SSO, CASS, load and balance testing, PRAXIS tape loads, DegreeWorks for NCAA certification, course historical data to help determine future course needs.

Terry – sessions on Luminis, BEIS, mobile apps. Terry wants to take ownership of Luminis 5 project with help from steering committee. Excited about mobile apps and wants to move ahead on developing some of those for students.

Julie – sessions on security and functional classes and a student worker class, DegreeWorks sessions, and Signals.

1.  Future Discussion items

a.  Clean Address Project (Julie Litmer-Schwaller and Jim Richardson)

b.  Surveying Users on the Use of Addresses in ODS (Kim de Leon)

c.  DEVL Upgrade for Financial Aid? (Julie Litmer-Schwaller)

d.  ODS 8.2.1 Upgrade (Kim De Leon)

e.  Banner Financial Aid Upgrades 8.8.1, 8.9, & 8.10 (Julie Litmer-Schwaller)

f.  System Password Sync (Julie Litmer-Schwaller)

g.  New Registration Codes (Cheryl Hine)

h.  Banner INB and OASIS Test Systems open to outside IPFW or VPN (Julie Litmer-Schwaller)

i.  Tentative Downtime Schedules - Calendar (Julie Litmer-Schwaller)

j.  OLS Student to Observe Banner Steering Committee (Julie Litmer-Schwaller)

k.  Shadow System Passwords Sync? (Julie Litmer-Schwaller)

l.  Banner Student 8.5.1 Upgrade – Needed for CAPP Fix (Nancy Leinbach)

m.  Change in default directory for Banner (Jim Richardson)

n.  Banner Student Upgrade 8.4 – Open Problems (Julie Litmer-Schwaller)

·  Transfer Credit Group Issue

·  Active Assignment Link in Faculty Dashboard

·  CAPP Issues (Rules, display of apostrophe, etc.)

·  Grade Roll issue with SHADEGR.

o.  dotCMS update (Terry Coonan)

p.  Windows 7 – Update on ODBC connection and BRIO (Kim De Leon)

q.  What prints on Xerox Printer from Banner? (Jim Richardson)

r.  Workflow Project (Julie Litmer-Schwaller)

s.  Papercut – Limiting printing for students (Terry Coonan and Julie Litmer-Schwaller)

t.  Oracle CPU (Critical Patch Upgrades) and Oracle 11g Upgrade (Jim Richardson)

u.  AY Term for Accelerated MBA Program Update (Julie Litmer-Schwaller)

v.  Emergency Notification System Splash Screen Status (Julie Litmer-Schwaller)

w.  dotCMS and the Banner Web Site (Sue DeChant)

x.  Netmail Removal – Student Look-up Screen/Confidentiality Setting Changes (Julie Litmer-Schwaller)

y.  International Student Services Data Changes – Date to have reports changed (Julie Litmer-Schwaller)

z.  Re-engineering of PPRD Update (Terry Coonan)

aa.  CAPP XML Fixes (Julie Litmer-Schwaller)

bb.  User Modernization: Banner Self-Service Webinar & FAQ (Sue DeChant)

cc.  BOSS Schedule Book Status (Julie Litmer-Schwaller)

dd.  Banner Upgrades and the Impact to Cognos - How do we know? Who knows it? Who needs to be notified? (Larrie Stoffer)

ee.  Employee IDM Status (Julie Litmer-Schwaller)

ff.  Student Query Only Access Profile in Banner (Frank Guzik)

2.  General Information

a.  PPRD System – Like PROD

Last Refresh date: 03/02/2011

b.  TRNG System – Like PROD

Last Refresh date: Currently being refreshed 4/4/2010

c.  DEVL System – Like PROD, but does NOT have the Financial Aid and OASIS/SSB Upgrades – 8.8.1, 8.9, & 8.10

Last Refresh date: 01/21/2011

e.  DEV2 System – Like PROD

Last Refresh date: 10/21/2010

f.  SHDW System – Like PROD on 01/14/2011

Last Refresh date: 01/14/2011

Policy Issues
Informational Items
Open Issues / Account Deletions, Mirrored Backup, Employee and Student Email Addresses, Employees in Banner, LDAP, Time out for my.ipfw and OASIS, Public Schedule of Classes and Web Application, IU Academic History, Placement Testing Changes, Students who use Banner, Advisor Track Data From Banner, Workflow project, Clean Address
Next meeting / Monday, April 18th at 3:30 p.m. in KT G13.

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