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Governance Minutes ArchiveMarch 1, 1989
MINUTES Computer Committee Fourth Floor Burruss Hall Board Room March 1, 1989 3 PM PRESENT: Jim Thomas, Donald Allison, John Burton, David Goodyear, Katherine Johnston, Harry Kriz, Fred Medley, Harlan Miller, Jim Montgomery, Richard Sorensen, Ernest Stout, Jeff Wilcke, Michael Williams ABSENT: Jeff Birch, Jeanette Cardamone, Randy Crockett, Bob Heterick, Jim Hicks, Dennis Jones, Tom McAnge, Jeff Nelson, Vernon Shanholtz, Patrick Shelor VISITOR(S): Dennis Catley, Institutional Research Rosie Higdon, Computing Center C. E. Nunnally, College of Engineering Bill Sanders, Computing Center. Dave Waller (for Patrick Shelor), Student Government AGENDA ITEM 1: MINUTES OF THE FEBRUARY, 1989 MEETING Motion made, seconded and passed to approve the minutes of the February meeting. AGENDA ITEM 2: COMPUTING CENTER REPORT (WILLIAMS) o The IBM 3090 upgrade is scheduled for 3/12/89. The upgrade will take approximately 14 hours. The system will be down from 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. o The second issue of "On the Move" has been published. Please note that the move date has been scheduled for July 21, 1989. The combination boxes in Burruss will be left where they are. The work order to have boxes installed in McBryde has been placed. Output to Burruss and McBryde will be delivered on a 24-hour basis, but the third shift will probably have less frequent deliveries. Boxes are scheduled to be installed in the new building but because of the security requirements, access may be a problem The greatest constraint on downtime for the move, is the time required for backups and restores. The backup for the 3090 alone takes 26 hours. The different systems will be coming down at different times so that the backups can be done prior to the actual move. IMS is currently scheduled to be down for part of July 20 and all of July 21. Request for special availability of IMS should be scheduled with Data Adminis- tration. A consulting service will remain in room 128 Burruss. Cur- rent runner services should remain approximately as they are. If many departments requested 3812 printers to be hooked up can the Computing Center handle this? Yes. o The logistics of promising new UNIX services by the Computing Center were muddled by recent announcements on delays in de- livery, but availability on campus by fall semester is still planned. AGENDA ITEM 3: SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS 1. User Services A draft response to the Self-Study Recommendation 10-9 was distributed. The subcommittee decided that there were two distinct issues to be addressed. The first issue concerns the establishment of centralized support for the use of per- sonal computer hardware and software. Because of the diver- sification within the University, the subcommittee feels that this should be handled by the individual departments and col- leges. The second issue relates to the establishment of a training facility for faculty, staff and students. Several alterna- tives were discussed, but no conclusion has been reached as to who the sponsor for this facility should be. The subcommittee will put the document in final form for the committee to vote on at the next meeting. 2. PC Subcommittee Has not convened. AGENDA ITEM 4: ADDITIONS TO THE AGENDA Minutes of the University Council There is a task force addressing the issue of the respective roles of the various University committees and commissions, in- cluding this one. The next committee meeting will be April 5, 1989 at 3:00 pm in Burruss 400.
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