The Information Systems unit of Information Technology Services is charged with providing all aspects of data processing including systems analysis, design, programming, implementation and operations and operating system software support for campus information systems.
Services provided by the unit are in the following areas.
Future systems will also be implemented on servers that could be in various locations around campus or in the Operations area. Processing is done daily during a second shift utilizing a predetermined schedule which averages 38 different processes plus all special requests that are received for the day. The schedule is made up of daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly, quarterly, term, and annual jobs. Special requests are for such things as all students in a given major, mailing labels, or commuter lists. An extremely important part of daily processing is the backup operation for the mainframe and network servers as this allows for recovery of individual files or an entire unit such as a server or a disk drive.