Refer to document for specifics. Administrative Computing Performance on IBM platform requires fine tuning. Chico has not had the staffing to complete this task and has, therefore, contracted with the Chancellor s Office Strategic Initiatives Consulting Group to accomplish this. The MVS Version 3, which will no longer be supported by IBM effective March 97. In the IBM world, when you upgrade it s big dollars and because we're on an old box it s even higher.
Major decision needs to be made.
The CO group is also helping with this. Refer to document for specifics. The position paper regarding a direction for a new e-mail solution for the campus should be out soon, probably next week. With regard to the Siemon client, review is in order to test, need to have all pieces loaded on a server, trying to locate a server. Refer to document for specifics.