To implement additional fields or record relationships would seriously impact existing conversion processes and project schedule. Existing ACRs will be reviewed with the functional offices. Those ACRs that are work in progress will be completed. Additional justification will be required on the other requests before they will be considered. It is important that any approved exception be completed, tested and moved to production prior to scheduled DB2 conversion date.
Every program is assigned to a packet and packets are shipped to the vendor for conversion.
Each packet represents a limited number of programs that can be converted by the vendor and returned to UCSD for testing. The packet assignments were made based on technical, transaction volume, and business requirements. This requires additional testing efforts and impacts the project schedule, resource assignments and client acceptance. There is contractual text that could result in substantial charges if UCSD was to make heavy use of this re-conversion process. Once packet 99 has been sent to the vendor there can be no additional changes.