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October 30, 2009

SWAROUS part 2

I found out why the new swarous report didn't match the old swarous results. The new version was using student's transfer hours to calculate the class they belong to (FR,SO,JR,SR). It also did this for the new freshman. Some of the new freshman had enough credit hours to place them in another class so instead of categorizing them as new freshman, they would be categorized as transferring Sophomores, Juniors,etc. I fixed the program so it doesn't do this anymore. If a student is put in as a new freshman, than they should be reported as new freshman regardless of credit hours.

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October 23, 2009

Swarous

I ran into a bunch of problems converting the SWAROUS report for Banner 8. Its an old program that was written by OUS for admissions. It turns out that we have 2 versions of this report (one written in perl and the other in Pro C). The perl version was never completed and it was missing the last page so it was never put into production. I spent time this week adding in this last page so that we can get rid of the old pro c version (this version would be tough to support in the future with the way it was written). It's almost ready to put into production. I got a few bugs to iron out though.

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First time full time freshman

I changed our first time/full time freshman cohort script this year so that it includes students that are taking remedial courses (MTH 070,MTH 095,etc). Prior to this, it was only counting part of term 1 courses. Scarf also includes these credit hours for their first time/full time freshman cohorts.

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October 16, 2009

More Banner 8 testing

I spent a good deal of time working on the CAPP program in banner web this week. It turns out that the degree evaluation now displays in xml format and some required setup scripts need to be run before you start using it. I had OUS run those for me and capp is now working. I added a spreadsheet called "misc items to do after upgrade" that contains a list of scripts that we need to run after the upgrade to convert our current curriculum table to banner 8.x.

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Banner 8 mods and testing

I finished all the mods to the student system this week. I ran into a problem in test where all perl and sql programs stopped working (all the parameters passed to them were undefined/null). The problem lead to a program called gwrgetp ( this was deleted this last week during a code clean up in test because it was not on our todo list). This is an OUS program that we absolutely need. It will not be converted to the new 8.x format because it uses special operating system calls.

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October 9, 2009

Banner 8 mods

We were able to go back to baseline on a few Pro C applications (scrbult,shrgrde,shrtrtc,shrfasc). I still need to apply two more mods (swrcaso and swzcrlt) but all other mods are in place. Swrcaso and swzcrlt were mods to make the compliance program work with CAS

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OUS 2nd week report

The OUS 2nd week report changed this year. We're no longer counting "in-load credit hours (state supported)". All credit hours are now counted. The breakdown is by student level,full time/part time, residency, and admitted/non-admitted. I changed our script and copied it to our com directory.

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October 2, 2009

Report for the week

Here's some of the items I've worked on this week -

Finished all package mods for Banner 8.
Finished all function mods for Banner 8.
Completed Summer scarf report.
Made major progress on fee assessment for Banner 8 - tuition is now calculating. I'll work on this next week to make sure it is assessing correctly.
Compiled 11 ProC programs, 6 are ready for testing, 5 still have errors to resolve.

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Creating an Mreport

If you ever need to create an mreport because the cron didn't run, you can make one by running szrmrep from job submission. Make sure you print it to "DATABASE". As soon as it completes, write down the job number. Run this sql to update the table:

insert into zrpthst (select distinct 'SZRMREP',
sysdate,
guroutp_seq_no,
guroutp_line
from guroutp where guroutp_one_up_no = 'job one up number')

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