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State of the USAS Address

Submitted by Dave Smith on Thu, 01/28/2010 - 7:35pm

At its October 2009 meeting, the SAC recommended making the second phase of the Migration Plan the SSDT highest priority.  This is the first time the SAC had recommended reducing development on the webapps and concentrating on migration of the OpenVMS backend to a modern, commodity platform.

OEDSA Confusion Regarding EMISFFE, IdM and AD??

Submitted by Dave Smith on Tue, 10/06/2009 - 1:46pm

Today I received an email saying (slightly paraphrased): 

Testing USAS/USPS SOAP Services

Submitted by Dave Smith on Thu, 08/27/2009 - 2:47pm

As more vendors integrate with the USAS/USPS SOAP services, I've been increasingly asked how to test the SOAP services at an ITC to ensure the service is working and to ensure the "end point" URL being used is the correct one.

SSDT SOAP Services interference with back-end processing.

Submitted by Dave Smith on Wed, 08/19/2009 - 6:52pm

A frequently reported problem with the USAS/USPS SOAP services, is the problems they can cause for processing on the OpenVMS system due to file locking.  For example, a USPS user can not run "SAVEPAY" or CHKUPD because a Kiosk SOAP session has a file locked.  Or, a USAS user can not run ADJUST because a USAS Web user has the ACCT file locked.

Providing "OECN wide" mail lists without UMP

Submitted by Dave Smith on Thu, 06/18/2009 - 4:28pm

A brief history of the OECN lists

In the early days (now dark ages) of the OECN, there was a desire by ODE and the OECN to provide "state-wide" email distribution lists to allow users and ODE to reach all OECN users in a particular group (e.g.

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