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Susan Hilton
Director, Administrative Services
hilton@uoregon.edu
This summer has been a busy one for the developers who support Banner.
We’ve upgraded to Oracle 9i, installed a number of interim Banner “point” releases, and added considerable functionality to the data warehouse. We’ve also continued to enhance system security and are working to reduce unscheduled downtime by providing additional redundancy of our systems.
The big news is that the web-based version of Banner, Internet Native Banner (INB), is now available at the UO. People have quietly begun using it and initial reports are very favorable. We continue to address some of the issues that accompany any conversion and should have most of them resolved very shortly.
With INB, Banner users will no longer need to log on to the Banner Windows NT domain or map a drive to Huey or Dewey in order to run Banner. For more details on using the new version of Banner, including answers to frequently-asked questions, please see https://inb.uoregon.edu/
Complete your migration to INB before Thanksgiving. When Banner 6.0 is installed on Thanksgiving weekend this year, the current client-server method of running Banner will no longer be supported. This means everyone will need to be using INB before that date.
Data Warehouse. Data Warehouse users will also be impacted by the demise of the old client-server mode. They will need to install the Oracle networking software, Sql*Net, on their desktops rather than accessing it from the file servers Huey and Dewey.
We’ve developed an installation program that will remove Huey/Dewey from the user’s Windows PATH environment variable and install Sql*Net. The program is available for download at http://ccadmin.uoregon.edu/banner/dwhs_install.shtml
Long-term plans include working with Oregon Hall and representatives from departments to look at other Data Warehouse solutions, perhaps one that is web-based.
What about LDAP? An unrelated topic that people are asking about is the LDAP (light directory access protocol) directory.
After a long delay in equipment delivery, we finally received the hardware and have begun work configuring the directory service. Our first project will be to rewrite the online directory to utilize the new LDAP- based directory service. We will provide more detailed information as we progress.
To learn more about administrative computing services and staff, see http://ccadmin.uoregon.edu/