Australia - New Zealand (ANZ)

Hi Everyone

I am pleased to announce that The University of Queensland has successfully upgraded to Campus Solutions 9.2.

Rather than take a simple 'technical upgrade' approach, we used the upgrade as an opportunity to undertake a significant overhaul of our Campus Solutions installation. The project:

* Upgraded Campus Solutions from 9.0 to 9.2

* Upgraded PeopleTools from 8.55 to 8.56

* Applied PUM7 and PT8.56.04

* Upgraded our Oracle Databases from 12.1 to 12.2

* Moved to virtual web servers

* Retired approximately 30% of our customisations (with hopefully more to come)

* Implemented a new user security model (which almost halved the number of roles)

* Introduced the Fluid navigation interface for staff and student self-service

* Improved system architecture, source control and versioning, and our library of technical documentation

* Automated many aspects of environment build and refreshes

* Developed an automated test suite for environment health checks and regression testing

In terms of issues encountered with the upgrade to CS9.2, we'd like to highlight the following items which may be of interest to other sites:

* Cobol changes: we found some Cobol no longer cancel sub-programs when initialising, which meant we had to fine-tune our Cobol customisations to ensure variables were initialised at runtime

* Workflow Approval changes: Workflow Approval data did not convert and we needed to manually convert and restart worklist items post MTP

* Entity Registry changes to Person SA: the Person SA entity changed significantly, requiring extensive rework of some of our integrations

* User feedback is very positive about Fluid, but the interplay between Fluid and Classic has caused some minor issues. We will be working to further implement Fluid pages to help address this.

We will be happy to provide further information at the upcoming Mini-HEUG.

I want to congratulate our Upgrade team for the successful transition!

Cheers, Mark

Mark Erickson
Director, Academic Services & Academic Registrar
The University of Queensland
QLD 4072 Australia
T: +61 7 336 52224
E: Academic.Registrar@uq.edu.au
CRICOS Provider Number: 00025B

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Congratulations!!!

Jane.
Sent from my phone. Please excuse brevity and typos.

________________________________
From: Mark Erickson <anz.heug@list.heug.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2018 6:13:04 PM
To: anz.heug@list.heug.org
Subject: [anz.heug] - UQ CS9.2 upgrade

Hi Everyone

I am pleased to announce that The University of Queensland has successfully upgraded to Campus Solutions 9.2.

Rather than take a simple ‘technical upgrade’ approach, we used the upgrade as an opportunity to undertake a significant overhaul of our Campus Solutions installation. The project:

· Upgraded Campus Solutions from 9.0 to 9.2

· Upgraded PeopleTools from 8.55 to 8.56

· Applied PUM7 and PT8.56.04

· Upgraded our Oracle Databases from 12.1 to 12.2

· Moved to virtual web servers

· Retired approximately 30% of our customisations (with hopefully more to come)

· Implemented a new user security model (which almost halved the number of roles)

· Introduced the Fluid navigation interface for staff and student self-service

· Improved system architecture, source control and versioning, and our library of technical documentation

· Automated many aspects of environment build and refreshes

· Developed an automated test suite for environment health checks and regression testing

In terms of issues encountered with the upgrade to CS9.2, we’d like to highlight the following items which may be of interest to other sites:

· Cobol changes: we found some Cobol no longer cancel sub-programs when initialising, which meant we had to fine-tune our Cobol customisations to ensure variables were initialised at runtime

· Workflow Approval changes: Workflow Approval data did not convert and we needed to manually convert and restart worklist items post MTP

· Entity Registry changes to Person SA: the Person SA entity changed significantly, requiring extensive rework of some of our integrations

· User feedback is very positive about Fluid, but the interplay between Fluid and Classic has caused some minor issues. We will be working to further implement Fluid pages to help address this.

We will be happy to provide further information at the upcoming Mini-HEUG.

I want to congratulate our Upgrade team for the successful transition!

Cheers, Mark

Mark Erickson
Director, Academic Services & Academic Registrar
The University of Queensland
QLD 4072 Australia
T: +61 7 336 52224
E: Academic.Registrar@uq.edu.au
CRICOS Provider Number: 00025B

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Hi Mark - congratulations to you and your team!

Cheers,
Rob.

Robert Lacina
University of South Australia
Information Strategy and Technology Services
Student Information Systems
CRICOS Provider Number: 00121B

From: Mark Erickson [mailto:anz.heug@list.heug.org]
Sent: Monday, 16 April 2018 7:43 AM
To: anz.heug@list.heug.org
Subject: [anz.heug] - UQ CS9.2 upgrade

Hi Everyone

I am pleased to announce that The University of Queensland has successfully upgraded to Campus Solutions 9.2.

Rather than take a simple 'technical upgrade' approach, we used the upgrade as an opportunity to undertake a significant overhaul of our Campus Solutions installation. The project:

* Upgraded Campus Solutions from 9.0 to 9.2

* Upgraded PeopleTools from 8.55 to 8.56

* Applied PUM7 and PT8.56.04

* Upgraded our Oracle Databases from 12.1 to 12.2

* Moved to virtual web servers

* Retired approximately 30% of our customisations (with hopefully more to come)

* Implemented a new user security model (which almost halved the number of roles)

* Introduced the Fluid navigation interface for staff and student self-service

* Improved system architecture, source control and versioning, and our library of technical documentation

* Automated many aspects of environment build and refreshes

* Developed an automated test suite for environment health checks and regression testing

In terms of issues encountered with the upgrade to CS9.2, we'd like to highlight the following items which may be of interest to other sites:

* Cobol changes: we found some Cobol no longer cancel sub-programs when initialising, which meant we had to fine-tune our Cobol customisations to ensure variables were initialised at runtime

* Workflow Approval changes: Workflow Approval data did not convert and we needed to manually convert and restart worklist items post MTP

* Entity Registry changes to Person SA: the Person SA entity changed significantly, requiring extensive rework of some of our integrations

* User feedback is very positive about Fluid, but the interplay between Fluid and Classic has caused some minor issues. We will be working to further implement Fluid pages to help address this.

We will be happy to provide further information at the upcoming Mini-HEUG.

I want to congratulate our Upgrade team for the successful transition!

Cheers, Mark

Mark Erickson
Director, Academic Services & Academic Registrar
The University of Queensland
QLD 4072 Australia
T: +61 7 336 52224
E: Academic.Registrar@uq.edu.au<mailto:Academic.Registrar@uq.edu.au>
CRICOS Provider Number: 00025B

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Congratulations Mark and UQ team... this remains in front of UNSW so I'm sure at some point there'll be a reach out for more info!


regards

Jason Dolan | Program Manager
UNSW3+ (ITStream) | Student Services and Systems
Division of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic
UNSW SYDNEY
NSW 2052 AUSTRALIA
M: +61 401 606 047
E: jason.dolan@unsw.edu.au<mailto:jason.dolan@unsw.edu.au>
W: unsw.edu.au
CRICOS Provider Code. 00098G
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Regards
Jason

From: Mark Erickson <anz.heug@list.heug.org>
Sent: Monday, 16 April 2018 8:13 AM
To: anz.heug@list.heug.org
Subject: [anz.heug] - UQ CS9.2 upgrade

Hi Everyone

I am pleased to announce that The University of Queensland has successfully upgraded to Campus Solutions 9.2.

Rather than take a simple 'technical upgrade' approach, we used the upgrade as an opportunity to undertake a significant overhaul of our Campus Solutions installation. The project:

* Upgraded Campus Solutions from 9.0 to 9.2
* Upgraded PeopleTools from 8.55 to 8.56
* Applied PUM7 and PT8.56.04
* Upgraded our Oracle Databases from 12.1 to 12.2
* Moved to virtual web servers
* Retired approximately 30% of our customisations (with hopefully more to come)
* Implemented a new user security model (which almost halved the number of roles)
* Introduced the Fluid navigation interface for staff and student self-service
* Improved system architecture, source control and versioning, and our library of technical documentation
* Automated many aspects of environment build and refreshes
* Developed an automated test suite for environment health checks and regression testing

In terms of issues encountered with the upgrade to CS9.2, we'd like to highlight the following items which may be of interest to other sites:

* Cobol changes: we found some Cobol no longer cancel sub-programs when initialising, which meant we had to fine-tune our Cobol customisations to ensure variables were initialised at runtime
* Workflow Approval changes: Workflow Approval data did not convert and we needed to manually convert and restart worklist items post MTP
* Entity Registry changes to Person SA: the Person SA entity changed significantly, requiring extensive rework of some of our integrations
* User feedback is very positive about Fluid, but the interplay between Fluid and Classic has caused some minor issues. We will be working to further implement Fluid pages to help address this.

We will be happy to provide further information at the upcoming Mini-HEUG.

I want to congratulate our Upgrade team for the successful transition!

Cheers, Mark

Mark Erickson
Director, Academic Services & Academic Registrar
The University of Queensland
QLD 4072 Australia
T: +61 7 336 52224
E: Academic.Registrar@uq.edu.au<mailto:Academic.Registrar@uq.edu.au>
CRICOS Provider Number: 00025B

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Congratulations Mark and team.

Kristin Humphreys
Manager (Student Systems) | Student Administrative and Academic Support | B128
T: +61 7 4631 2484 | M: +61 459 036 116
E: Kristin.Humphreys@usq.edu.au<mailto:Kristin.Humphreys@usq.edu.au>

From: Mark Erickson [mailto:anz.heug@list.heug.org]
Sent: Monday, 16 April 2018 8:13 AM
To: anz.heug@list.heug.org
Subject: [anz.heug] - UQ CS9.2 upgrade

Hi Everyone

I am pleased to announce that The University of Queensland has successfully upgraded to Campus Solutions 9.2.

Rather than take a simple 'technical upgrade' approach, we used the upgrade as an opportunity to undertake a significant overhaul of our Campus Solutions installation. The project:

* Upgraded Campus Solutions from 9.0 to 9.2

* Upgraded PeopleTools from 8.55 to 8.56

* Applied PUM7 and PT8.56.04

* Upgraded our Oracle Databases from 12.1 to 12.2

* Moved to virtual web servers

* Retired approximately 30% of our customisations (with hopefully more to come)

* Implemented a new user security model (which almost halved the number of roles)

* Introduced the Fluid navigation interface for staff and student self-service

* Improved system architecture, source control and versioning, and our library of technical documentation

* Automated many aspects of environment build and refreshes

* Developed an automated test suite for environment health checks and regression testing

In terms of issues encountered with the upgrade to CS9.2, we'd like to highlight the following items which may be of interest to other sites:

* Cobol changes: we found some Cobol no longer cancel sub-programs when initialising, which meant we had to fine-tune our Cobol customisations to ensure variables were initialised at runtime

* Workflow Approval changes: Workflow Approval data did not convert and we needed to manually convert and restart worklist items post MTP

* Entity Registry changes to Person SA: the Person SA entity changed significantly, requiring extensive rework of some of our integrations

* User feedback is very positive about Fluid, but the interplay between Fluid and Classic has caused some minor issues. We will be working to further implement Fluid pages to help address this.

We will be happy to provide further information at the upcoming Mini-HEUG.

I want to congratulate our Upgrade team for the successful transition!

Cheers, Mark

Mark Erickson
Director, Academic Services & Academic Registrar
The University of Queensland
QLD 4072 Australia
T: +61 7 336 52224
E: Academic.Registrar@uq.edu.au<mailto:Academic.Registrar@uq.edu.au>
CRICOS Provider Number: 00025B

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-----End Original Message-----


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Congratulations Mark and the UQ team - great news for a Monday morning!

Cheers
Nikki

From: Mark Erickson <anz.heug@list.heug.org>
Sent: Monday, 16 April 2018 7:43 AM
To: anz.heug@list.heug.org
Subject: [anz.heug] - UQ CS9.2 upgrade

Hi Everyone

I am pleased to announce that The University of Queensland has successfully upgraded to Campus Solutions 9.2.

Rather than take a simple 'technical upgrade' approach, we used the upgrade as an opportunity to undertake a significant overhaul of our Campus Solutions installation. The project:

* Upgraded Campus Solutions from 9.0 to 9.2

* Upgraded PeopleTools from 8.55 to 8.56

* Applied PUM7 and PT8.56.04

* Upgraded our Oracle Databases from 12.1 to 12.2

* Moved to virtual web servers

* Retired approximately 30% of our customisations (with hopefully more to come)

* Implemented a new user security model (which almost halved the number of roles)

* Introduced the Fluid navigation interface for staff and student self-service

* Improved system architecture, source control and versioning, and our library of technical documentation

* Automated many aspects of environment build and refreshes

* Developed an automated test suite for environment health checks and regression testing

In terms of issues encountered with the upgrade to CS9.2, we'd like to highlight the following items which may be of interest to other sites:

* Cobol changes: we found some Cobol no longer cancel sub-programs when initialising, which meant we had to fine-tune our Cobol customisations to ensure variables were initialised at runtime

* Workflow Approval changes: Workflow Approval data did not convert and we needed to manually convert and restart worklist items post MTP

* Entity Registry changes to Person SA: the Person SA entity changed significantly, requiring extensive rework of some of our integrations

* User feedback is very positive about Fluid, but the interplay between Fluid and Classic has caused some minor issues. We will be working to further implement Fluid pages to help address this.

We will be happy to provide further information at the upcoming Mini-HEUG.

I want to congratulate our Upgrade team for the successful transition!

Cheers, Mark

Mark Erickson
Director, Academic Services & Academic Registrar
The University of Queensland
QLD 4072 Australia
T: +61 7 336 52224
E: Academic.Registrar@uq.edu.au<mailto:Academic.Registrar@uq.edu.au>
CRICOS Provider Number: 00025B

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Hi Mark

Congratulations to all of your team involved. It sounds like you will have taken a big step in reducing your support costs - well done to all involved.

I look forward to hearing all about it at USC in June.

Cheers

John Reed
UNSW

Sent from my iPad

On 16 Apr 2018, at 08:58, Nikki Gaertner Eaton <anz.heug@list.heug.org<mailto:anz.heug@list.heug.org>> wrote:

Congratulations Mark and the UQ team – great news for a Monday morning!

Cheers
Nikki

From: Mark Erickson <anz.heug@list.heug.org<mailto:anz.heug@list.heug.org>>
Sent: Monday, 16 April 2018 7:43 AM
To: anz.heug@list.heug.org<mailto:anz.heug@list.heug.org>
Subject: [anz.heug] - UQ CS9.2 upgrade

Hi Everyone

I am pleased to announce that The University of Queensland has successfully upgraded to Campus Solutions 9.2.

Rather than take a simple ‘technical upgrade’ approach, we used the upgrade as an opportunity to undertake a significant overhaul of our Campus Solutions installation. The project:

· Upgraded Campus Solutions from 9.0 to 9.2

· Upgraded PeopleTools from 8.55 to 8.56

· Applied PUM7 and PT8.56.04

· Upgraded our Oracle Databases from 12.1 to 12.2

· Moved to virtual web servers

· Retired approximately 30% of our customisations (with hopefully more to come)

· Implemented a new user security model (which almost halved the number of roles)

· Introduced the Fluid navigation interface for staff and student self-service

· Improved system architecture, source control and versioning, and our library of technical documentation

· Automated many aspects of environment build and refreshes

· Developed an automated test suite for environment health checks and regression testing

In terms of issues encountered with the upgrade to CS9.2, we’d like to highlight the following items which may be of interest to other sites:

· Cobol changes: we found some Cobol no longer cancel sub-programs when initialising, which meant we had to fine-tune our Cobol customisations to ensure variables were initialised at runtime

· Workflow Approval changes: Workflow Approval data did not convert and we needed to manually convert and restart worklist items post MTP

· Entity Registry changes to Person SA: the Person SA entity changed significantly, requiring extensive rework of some of our integrations

· User feedback is very positive about Fluid, but the interplay between Fluid and Classic has caused some minor issues. We will be working to further implement Fluid pages to help address this.

We will be happy to provide further information at the upcoming Mini-HEUG.

I want to congratulate our Upgrade team for the successful transition!

Cheers, Mark

Mark Erickson
Director, Academic Services & Academic Registrar
The University of Queensland
QLD 4072 Australia
T: +61 7 336 52224
E: Academic.Registrar@uq.edu.au<mailto:Academic.Registrar@uq.edu.au>
CRICOS Provider Number: 00025B

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Congratulations UQ team and thanks for the additional highlights of your upgrade.
Best wishes, Joan

Joan Angel

Deputy Registrar - Division of Student Administration - Building X-005, 121 Marcus Clarke (Childers Street entrance), ANU, 2601


T: +61 2 6125 5037 E: Joan.Angel@anu.edu.au<mailto:Joan.Angel@anu.edu.au> W: www.anu.edu.au http://www.anu.edu.au
Commitment to Service http://www.anu.edu.au/commitment-to-service - Feedback and Grievances http://www.anu.edu.au/feedback-grievances


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ISIS is the gateway to your degree - logon and keep in touch







From: Mark Erickson [mailto:anz.heug@list.heug.org]
Sent: Monday, 16 April 2018 8:13 AM
To: anz.heug@list.heug.org
Subject: [anz.heug] - UQ CS9.2 upgrade

Hi Everyone

I am pleased to announce that The University of Queensland has successfully upgraded to Campus Solutions 9.2.

Rather than take a simple 'technical upgrade' approach, we used the upgrade as an opportunity to undertake a significant overhaul of our Campus Solutions installation. The project:

* Upgraded Campus Solutions from 9.0 to 9.2

* Upgraded PeopleTools from 8.55 to 8.56

* Applied PUM7 and PT8.56.04

* Upgraded our Oracle Databases from 12.1 to 12.2

* Moved to virtual web servers

* Retired approximately 30% of our customisations (with hopefully more to come)

* Implemented a new user security model (which almost halved the number of roles)

* Introduced the Fluid navigation interface for staff and student self-service

* Improved system architecture, source control and versioning, and our library of technical documentation

* Automated many aspects of environment build and refreshes

* Developed an automated test suite for environment health checks and regression testing

In terms of issues encountered with the upgrade to CS9.2, we'd like to highlight the following items which may be of interest to other sites:

* Cobol changes: we found some Cobol no longer cancel sub-programs when initialising, which meant we had to fine-tune our Cobol customisations to ensure variables were initialised at runtime

* Workflow Approval changes: Workflow Approval data did not convert and we needed to manually convert and restart worklist items post MTP

* Entity Registry changes to Person SA: the Person SA entity changed significantly, requiring extensive rework of some of our integrations

* User feedback is very positive about Fluid, but the interplay between Fluid and Classic has caused some minor issues. We will be working to further implement Fluid pages to help address this.

We will be happy to provide further information at the upcoming Mini-HEUG.

I want to congratulate our Upgrade team for the successful transition!

Cheers, Mark

Mark Erickson
Director, Academic Services & Academic Registrar
The University of Queensland
QLD 4072 Australia
T: +61 7 336 52224
E: Academic.Registrar@uq.edu.au<mailto:Academic.Registrar@uq.edu.au>
CRICOS Provider Number: 00025B

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Hi Mark,

That is great!! Thank you for sharing :)

In collaboration,

Gina Cardenas
Business Analyst
UNSW3+ | Student Services and Systems

UNSW SYDNEY
NSW 2052 AUSTRALIA
T: +61 29385 53776
M: +61 (4) 2566 1516
E: g.cardenasleiva@unsw.edu.au<mailto:richard.sanchez@unsw.edu.au>
W: www.unsw.edu.au http://www.unsw.edu.au

CRICOS Provider Code 00098G
[cid:image001.png@01D2758A.1DD460C0] http://www.unsw.edu.au

From: Mark Erickson <anz.heug@list.heug.org>
Sent: Monday, 16 April 2018 8:13 AM
To: anz.heug@list.heug.org
Subject: [anz.heug] - UQ CS9.2 upgrade

Hi Everyone

I am pleased to announce that The University of Queensland has successfully upgraded to Campus Solutions 9.2.

Rather than take a simple ‘technical upgrade’ approach, we used the upgrade as an opportunity to undertake a significant overhaul of our Campus Solutions installation. The project:

* Upgraded Campus Solutions from 9.0 to 9.2
* Upgraded PeopleTools from 8.55 to 8.56
* Applied PUM7 and PT8.56.04
* Upgraded our Oracle Databases from 12.1 to 12.2
* Moved to virtual web servers
* Retired approximately 30% of our customisations (with hopefully more to come)
* Implemented a new user security model (which almost halved the number of roles)
* Introduced the Fluid navigation interface for staff and student self-service
* Improved system architecture, source control and versioning, and our library of technical documentation
* Automated many aspects of environment build and refreshes
* Developed an automated test suite for environment health checks and regression testing

In terms of issues encountered with the upgrade to CS9.2, we’d like to highlight the following items which may be of interest to other sites:

* Cobol changes: we found some Cobol no longer cancel sub-programs when initialising, which meant we had to fine-tune our Cobol customisations to ensure variables were initialised at runtime
* Workflow Approval changes: Workflow Approval data did not convert and we needed to manually convert and restart worklist items post MTP
* Entity Registry changes to Person SA: the Person SA entity changed significantly, requiring extensive rework of some of our integrations
* User feedback is very positive about Fluid, but the interplay between Fluid and Classic has caused some minor issues. We will be working to further implement Fluid pages to help address this.

We will be happy to provide further information at the upcoming Mini-HEUG.

I want to congratulate our Upgrade team for the successful transition!

Cheers, Mark

Mark Erickson
Director, Academic Services & Academic Registrar
The University of Queensland
QLD 4072 Australia
T: +61 7 336 52224
E: Academic.Registrar@uq.edu.au<mailto:Academic.Registrar@uq.edu.au>
CRICOS Provider Number: 00025B

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Congratulations Mark and to the entire UQ team! Great write-up and story!









Gary Allen | Director, Global Product Strategy

Oracle Higher Education

Email: gary.x.allen@oracle.com | Phone: +1 707-981-8653 | Mobile: +1 415-305-8944



From: Mark Erickson [mailto:anz.heug@list.heug.org]
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2018 3:13 PM
To: anz.heug@list.heug.org
Subject: [anz.heug] - UQ CS9.2 upgrade



Hi Everyone



I am pleased to announce that The University of Queensland has successfully upgraded to Campus Solutions 9.2.



Rather than take a simple 'technical upgrade' approach, we used the upgrade as an opportunity to undertake a significant overhaul of our Campus Solutions installation. The project:

. Upgraded Campus Solutions from 9.0 to 9.2

. Upgraded PeopleTools from 8.55 to 8.56

. Applied PUM7 and PT8.56.04

. Upgraded our Oracle Databases from 12.1 to 12.2

. Moved to virtual web servers

. Retired approximately 30% of our customisations (with hopefully more to come)

. Implemented a new user security model (which almost halved the number of roles)

. Introduced the Fluid navigation interface for staff and student self-service

. Improved system architecture, source control and versioning, and our library of technical documentation

. Automated many aspects of environment build and refreshes

. Developed an automated test suite for environment health checks and regression testing



In terms of issues encountered with the upgrade to CS9.2, we'd like to highlight the following items which may be of interest to other sites:

. Cobol changes: we found some Cobol no longer cancel sub-programs when initialising, which meant we had to fine-tune our Cobol customisations to ensure variables were initialised at runtime

. Workflow Approval changes: Workflow Approval data did not convert and we needed to manually convert and restart worklist items post MTP

. Entity Registry changes to Person SA: the Person SA entity changed significantly, requiring extensive rework of some of our integrations

. User feedback is very positive about Fluid, but the interplay between Fluid and Classic has caused some minor issues. We will be working to further implement Fluid pages to help address this.



We will be happy to provide further information at the upcoming Mini-HEUG.



I want to congratulate our Upgrade team for the successful transition!



Cheers, Mark



Mark Erickson

Director, Academic Services & Academic Registrar

The University of Queensland

QLD 4072 Australia

T: +61 7 336 52224

E: HYPERLINK "mailto:Academic.Registrar@uq.edu.au"Academic.Registrar@uq.edu.au

CRICOS Provider Number: 00025B











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Looks like UQ achieved a lot of value add with your upgrade there. Nice work!

It will be good to get to see your new fluidism.

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From: Mark Erickson [mailto:anz.heug@list.heug.org]
Sent: Monday, 16 April 2018 8:13 AM
To: anz.heug@list.heug.org
Subject: [anz.heug] - UQ CS9.2 upgrade

Hi Everyone

I am pleased to announce that The University of Queensland has successfully upgraded to Campus Solutions 9.2.

Rather than take a simple 'technical upgrade' approach, we used the upgrade as an opportunity to undertake a significant overhaul of our Campus Solutions installation. The project:

· Upgraded Campus Solutions from 9.0 to 9.2

· Upgraded PeopleTools from 8.55 to 8.56

· Applied PUM7 and PT8.56.04

· Upgraded our Oracle Databases from 12.1 to 12.2

· Moved to virtual web servers

· Retired approximately 30% of our customisations (with hopefully more to come)

· Implemented a new user security model (which almost halved the number of roles)

· Introduced the Fluid navigation interface for staff and student self-service

· Improved system architecture, source control and versioning, and our library of technical documentation

· Automated many aspects of environment build and refreshes

· Developed an automated test suite for environment health checks and regression testing

In terms of issues encountered with the upgrade to CS9.2, we'd like to highlight the following items which may be of interest to other sites:

· Cobol changes: we found some Cobol no longer cancel sub-programs when initialising, which meant we had to fine-tune our Cobol customisations to ensure variables were initialised at runtime

· Workflow Approval changes: Workflow Approval data did not convert and we needed to manually convert and restart worklist items post MTP

· Entity Registry changes to Person SA: the Person SA entity changed significantly, requiring extensive rework of some of our integrations

· User feedback is very positive about Fluid, but the interplay between Fluid and Classic has caused some minor issues. We will be working to further implement Fluid pages to help address this.

We will be happy to provide further information at the upcoming Mini-HEUG.

I want to congratulate our Upgrade team for the successful transition!

Cheers, Mark

Mark Erickson
Director, Academic Services & Academic Registrar
The University of Queensland
QLD 4072 Australia
T: +61 7 336 52224
E: Academic.Registrar@uq.edu.au<mailto:Academic.Registrar@uq.edu.au>
CRICOS Provider Number: 00025B

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HI Mark,

Well done to the UQ upgrade team.

I'm positive the hard work will pay off with better staff and student experience with enhanced functionality.

It's great to hear about your highlights and the lessons learned from your upgrade experience.


Please pass on our congratulations to the team.


Cheers,
Paul Yeoh

Enterprise Systems, Information Technology Services
Level 5, Building #43
W.K. Hancock - West Wing
43 Biology Place
The Australian National University
Acton ACT 2601

+61 2 6125 9537


________________________________
From: Mark Erickson <anz.heug@list.heug.org>
Sent: Monday, 16 April 2018 8:13 AM
To: anz.heug@list.heug.org
Subject: [anz.heug] - UQ CS9.2 upgrade


Hi Everyone



I am pleased to announce that The University of Queensland has successfully upgraded to Campus Solutions 9.2.



Rather than take a simple ‘technical upgrade’ approach, we used the upgrade as an opportunity to undertake a significant overhaul of our Campus Solutions installation. The project:

· Upgraded Campus Solutions from 9.0 to 9.2

· Upgraded PeopleTools from 8.55 to 8.56

· Applied PUM7 and PT8.56.04

· Upgraded our Oracle Databases from 12.1 to 12.2

· Moved to virtual web servers

· Retired approximately 30% of our customisations (with hopefully more to come)

· Implemented a new user security model (which almost halved the number of roles)

· Introduced the Fluid navigation interface for staff and student self-service

· Improved system architecture, source control and versioning, and our library of technical documentation

· Automated many aspects of environment build and refreshes

· Developed an automated test suite for environment health checks and regression testing



In terms of issues encountered with the upgrade to CS9.2, we’d like to highlight the following items which may be of interest to other sites:

· Cobol changes: we found some Cobol no longer cancel sub-programs when initialising, which meant we had to fine-tune our Cobol customisations to ensure variables were initialised at runtime

· Workflow Approval changes: Workflow Approval data did not convert and we needed to manually convert and restart worklist items post MTP

· Entity Registry changes to Person SA: the Person SA entity changed significantly, requiring extensive rework of some of our integrations

· User feedback is very positive about Fluid, but the interplay between Fluid and Classic has caused some minor issues. We will be working to further implement Fluid pages to help address this.



We will be happy to provide further information at the upcoming Mini-HEUG.



I want to congratulate our Upgrade team for the successful transition!



Cheers, Mark



Mark Erickson

Director, Academic Services & Academic Registrar

The University of Queensland

QLD 4072 Australia

T: +61 7 336 52224

E: Academic.Registrar@uq.edu.au

CRICOS Provider Number: 00025B



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Great work Mark, and congratulations to the team. Going beyond a technical upgrade is not easy, here at Auckland we can relate to that!

Russell Barron (via iPhone)


On 16/04/2018, at 10:13 AM, Mark Erickson <anz.heug@list.heug.org<mailto:anz.heug@list.heug.org>> wrote:

Hi Everyone

I am pleased to announce that The University of Queensland has successfully upgraded to Campus Solutions 9.2.

Rather than take a simple 'technical upgrade' approach, we used the upgrade as an opportunity to undertake a significant overhaul of our Campus Solutions installation. The project:

* Upgraded Campus Solutions from 9.0 to 9.2

* Upgraded PeopleTools from 8.55 to 8.56

* Applied PUM7 and PT8.56.04

* Upgraded our Oracle Databases from 12.1 to 12.2

* Moved to virtual web servers

* Retired approximately 30% of our customisations (with hopefully more to come)

* Implemented a new user security model (which almost halved the number of roles)

* Introduced the Fluid navigation interface for staff and student self-service

* Improved system architecture, source control and versioning, and our library of technical documentation

* Automated many aspects of environment build and refreshes

* Developed an automated test suite for environment health checks and regression testing

In terms of issues encountered with the upgrade to CS9.2, we'd like to highlight the following items which may be of interest to other sites:

* Cobol changes: we found some Cobol no longer cancel sub-programs when initialising, which meant we had to fine-tune our Cobol customisations to ensure variables were initialised at runtime

* Workflow Approval changes: Workflow Approval data did not convert and we needed to manually convert and restart worklist items post MTP

* Entity Registry changes to Person SA: the Person SA entity changed significantly, requiring extensive rework of some of our integrations

* User feedback is very positive about Fluid, but the interplay between Fluid and Classic has caused some minor issues. We will be working to further implement Fluid pages to help address this.

We will be happy to provide further information at the upcoming Mini-HEUG.

I want to congratulate our Upgrade team for the successful transition!

Cheers, Mark

Mark Erickson
Director, Academic Services & Academic Registrar
The University of Queensland
QLD 4072 Australia
T: +61 7 336 52224
E: Academic.Registrar@uq.edu.au<mailto:Academic.Registrar@uq.edu.au>
CRICOS Provider Number: 00025B

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Hi Mark,

Welcome to CS9.2, sounds like a great case study. Congratulations to you and all the team there at UQ.

Kind regards,
Darryl.

Darryl Kefford |​ Chief Information Technology Officer

The University of Notre Dame Australia (Fremantle, Broome & Sydney)
19 Mouat Street (PO Box 1225)
FREMANTLE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA 6959
Telephone: +61 8 9433 0650 | Mobile: +61 450 446 443
Email: darryl.kefford@nd.edu.au<mailto:darryl.kefford@nd.edu.au> | Internet: www.nd.edu.au http://www.notredame.edu.au | CRICOS Provider Codes: 01032F http://cricos.dest.gov.au/Institution/InstitutionDetails.aspx?ProviderID=1030

From: Mark Erickson [mailto:anz.heug@list.heug.org]
Sent: Monday, 16 April 2018 6:13 AM
To: anz.heug@list.heug.org
Subject: [anz.heug] - UQ CS9.2 upgrade

Hi Everyone

I am pleased to announce that The University of Queensland has successfully upgraded to Campus Solutions 9.2.

Rather than take a simple ‘technical upgrade’ approach, we used the upgrade as an opportunity to undertake a significant overhaul of our Campus Solutions installation. The project:

· Upgraded Campus Solutions from 9.0 to 9.2

· Upgraded PeopleTools from 8.55 to 8.56

· Applied PUM7 and PT8.56.04

· Upgraded our Oracle Databases from 12.1 to 12.2

· Moved to virtual web servers

· Retired approximately 30% of our customisations (with hopefully more to come)

· Implemented a new user security model (which almost halved the number of roles)

· Introduced the Fluid navigation interface for staff and student self-service

· Improved system architecture, source control and versioning, and our library of technical documentation

· Automated many aspects of environment build and refreshes

· Developed an automated test suite for environment health checks and regression testing

In terms of issues encountered with the upgrade to CS9.2, we’d like to highlight the following items which may be of interest to other sites:

· Cobol changes: we found some Cobol no longer cancel sub-programs when initialising, which meant we had to fine-tune our Cobol customisations to ensure variables were initialised at runtime

· Workflow Approval changes: Workflow Approval data did not convert and we needed to manually convert and restart worklist items post MTP

· Entity Registry changes to Person SA: the Person SA entity changed significantly, requiring extensive rework of some of our integrations

· User feedback is very positive about Fluid, but the interplay between Fluid and Classic has caused some minor issues. We will be working to further implement Fluid pages to help address this.

We will be happy to provide further information at the upcoming Mini-HEUG.

I want to congratulate our Upgrade team for the successful transition!

Cheers, Mark

Mark Erickson
Director, Academic Services & Academic Registrar
The University of Queensland
QLD 4072 Australia
T: +61 7 336 52224
E: Academic.Registrar@uq.edu.au<mailto:Academic.Registrar@uq.edu.au>
CRICOS Provider Number: 00025B

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On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 8:13 AM, Mark Erickson <anz.heug@list.heug.org>
wrote:

> Hi Everyone
>
>
>
> I am pleased to announce that The University of Queensland has
> successfully upgraded to Campus Solutions 9.2.
>
>
>
> Rather than take a simple ‘technical upgrade’ approach, we used the
> upgrade as an opportunity to undertake a significant overhaul of our Campus
> Solutions installation. The project:
>
> · Upgraded Campus Solutions from 9.0 to 9.2
>
> · Upgraded PeopleTools from 8.55 to 8.56
>
> · Applied PUM7 and PT8.56.04
>
> · Upgraded our Oracle Databases from 12.1 to 12.2
>
> · Moved to virtual web servers
>
> · Retired approximately 30% of our customisations (with hopefully
> more to come)
>
> · Implemented a new user security model (which almost halved the
> number of roles)
>
> · Introduced the Fluid navigation interface for staff and student
> self-service
>
> · Improved system architecture, source control and versioning,
> and our library of technical documentation
>
> · Automated many aspects of environment build and refreshes
>
> · Developed an automated test suite for environment health checks
> and regression testing
>
>
>
> In terms of issues encountered with the upgrade to CS9.2, we’d like to
> highlight the following items which may be of interest to other sites:
>
> · Cobol changes: we found some Cobol no longer cancel
> sub-programs when initialising, which meant we had to fine-tune our Cobol
> customisations to ensure variables were initialised at runtime
>
> · Workflow Approval changes: Workflow Approval data did not
> convert and we needed to manually convert and restart worklist items post
> MTP
>
> · Entity Registry changes to Person SA: the Person SA entity
> changed significantly, requiring extensive rework of some of our
> integrations
>
> · User feedback is very positive about Fluid, but the interplay
> between Fluid and Classic has caused some minor issues. We will be working
> to further implement Fluid pages to help address this.
>
>
>
> We will be happy to provide further information at the upcoming Mini-HEUG.
>
>
>
>
> I want to congratulate our Upgrade team for the successful transition!
>
>
>
> Cheers, Mark
>
>
>
> *Mark Erickson*
>
> Director, Academic Services & Academic Registrar
>
> The University of Queensland
>
> QLD 4072 Australia
>
> T: +61 7 336 52224
>
> E: Academic.Registrar@uq.edu.au
>
> CRICOS Provider Number: 00025B
>
>
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Dear Mark,
Many congratulations from the “FedUni CS9.2 Upgrade team”.
We are following your path and aiming for a go live in August 2018.
Our upgrade will be a complete overhaul of self-service experience with Fluid functionality.

Thank you for your lessons learnt. Duly noted. All the best.


Regards,

Dr Fahd Alizai
Program Manager, Corporate Solutions
Strategic Capital, Infrastructure & Projects (SCIP)
Office of the DVC, Student Support Services

Federation University, Australia | Mt Helen Campus.
PO Box 663 Ballarat VIC 3353
t +61 3 5327 9186 | m +61 402 171 417
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On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 8:13 AM, Mark Erickson <anz.heug@list.heug.org<mailto:anz.heug@list.heug.org>> wrote:
Hi Everyone

I am pleased to announce that The University of Queensland has successfully upgraded to Campus Solutions 9.2.

Rather than take a simple ‘technical upgrade’ approach, we used the upgrade as an opportunity to undertake a significant overhaul of our Campus Solutions installation. The project:

• Upgraded Campus Solutions from 9.0 to 9.2

• Upgraded PeopleTools from 8.55 to 8.56

• Applied PUM7 and PT8.56.04

• Upgraded our Oracle Databases from 12.1 to 12.2

• Moved to virtual web servers

• Retired approximately 30% of our customisations (with hopefully more to come)

• Implemented a new user security model (which almost halved the number of roles)

• Introduced the Fluid navigation interface for staff and student self-service

• Improved system architecture, source control and versioning, and our library of technical documentation

• Automated many aspects of environment build and refreshes

• Developed an automated test suite for environment health checks and regression testing

In terms of issues encountered with the upgrade to CS9.2, we’d like to highlight the following items which may be of interest to other sites:

• Cobol changes: we found some Cobol no longer cancel sub-programs when initialising, which meant we had to fine-tune our Cobol customisations to ensure variables were initialised at runtime

• Workflow Approval changes: Workflow Approval data did not convert and we needed to manually convert and restart worklist items post MTP

• Entity Registry changes to Person SA: the Person SA entity changed significantly, requiring extensive rework of some of our integrations

• User feedback is very positive about Fluid, but the interplay between Fluid and Classic has caused some minor issues. We will be working to further implement Fluid pages to help address this.

We will be happy to provide further information at the upcoming Mini-HEUG.

I want to congratulate our Upgrade team for the successful transition!

Cheers, Mark

Mark Erickson
Director, Academic Services & Academic Registrar
The University of Queensland
QLD 4072 Australia
T: +61 7 336 52224
E: Academic.Registrar@uq.edu.au<mailto:Academic.Registrar@uq.edu.au>
CRICOS Provider Number: 00025B

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Congratulations Mark

Great outcome.

Regards
Dave

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From: Mark Erickson <anz.heug@list.heug.org>
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Date: Monday, 16 April 2018 at 7:43 am
To: "anz.heug@list.heug.org" <anz.heug@list.heug.org>
Subject: [anz.heug] - UQ CS9.2 upgrade
Resent-From: <anz.heug@list.heug.org>
Resent-Date: Monday, 16 April 2018 at 7:43 am

Hi Everyone

I am pleased to announce that The University of Queensland has successfully upgraded to Campus Solutions 9.2.

Rather than take a simple ‘technical upgrade’ approach, we used the upgrade as an opportunity to undertake a significant overhaul of our Campus Solutions installation. The project:

* Upgraded Campus Solutions from 9.0 to 9.2
* Upgraded PeopleTools from 8.55 to 8.56
* Applied PUM7 and PT8.56.04
* Upgraded our Oracle Databases from 12.1 to 12.2
* Moved to virtual web servers
* Retired approximately 30% of our customisations (with hopefully more to come)
* Implemented a new user security model (which almost halved the number of roles)
* Introduced the Fluid navigation interface for staff and student self-service
* Improved system architecture, source control and versioning, and our library of technical documentation
* Automated many aspects of environment build and refreshes
* Developed an automated test suite for environment health checks and regression testing

In terms of issues encountered with the upgrade to CS9.2, we’d like to highlight the following items which may be of interest to other sites:

* Cobol changes: we found some Cobol no longer cancel sub-programs when initialising, which meant we had to fine-tune our Cobol customisations to ensure variables were initialised at runtime
* Workflow Approval changes: Workflow Approval data did not convert and we needed to manually convert and restart worklist items post MTP
* Entity Registry changes to Person SA: the Person SA entity changed significantly, requiring extensive rework of some of our integrations
* User feedback is very positive about Fluid, but the interplay between Fluid and Classic has caused some minor issues. We will be working to further implement Fluid pages to help address this.

We will be happy to provide further information at the upcoming Mini-HEUG.

I want to congratulate our Upgrade team for the successful transition!

Cheers, Mark

Mark Erickson
Director, Academic Services & Academic Registrar
The University of Queensland
QLD 4072 Australia
T: +61 7 336 52224
E: Academic.Registrar@uq.edu.au
CRICOS Provider Number: 00025B

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