NC*SA Meeting - Monday, August 10, 1998 - 6pm

[Heather Flanagan <heflan@wnt.sas.com>]

The next meeting of the North Carolina System Administrators
organization (NC*SA) will be Monday, August 10, 1998, at 6pm.  Details
about the meeting and directions are provided in this note.  We hope
to see you there! 


                    NC*SA General Meeting
               6:00 p.m., Monday, August 10, 1998
                     Dreyfus Laboratory
                 Research Triangle Institute
                  Research Triangle Park, NC
                     (directions below)


                  A Year 2000 Discussion
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Bio:
Dawna Clephas is the Distributed Systems Infrastructure (DSI) Y2K Test
Coordinator for Wachovia Bank.  She is responsible for the development
and
maintenance of the testing methodology, management of the testing
process,
and review of all DSI test plans and results.

Dawna is a consultant currently working through Metro Information
Services.
She was formerly head of Quality Assurance for a Roanoke, Virginia
software
development company, and has worked for American Management Systems and
Andersen Consulting in development lifecycle methodology consulting,
Configuration Management, and software design, development and testing.
Dawna has an MBA from Virginia Tech.


Abstract:

Dawna will provide an overview of Y2K planning and related issues for
companies and individuals:
·    How dates are stored
     ·    What can happen to date data in Y2K
     ·    Risk Dates
Areas of exposure for business systems
     ·    Mainframe code
     ·    Hardware
     ·    Distributed Systems Infrastructure and Applications
     ·    Imbedded Systems
     ·    Interfaces?internal as well as suppliers and customers
Y2K Project Lifecycle
     ·    Inventory
     ·    Project Plan (including resource allocation)
     ·    Problem detection and remediation
     ·    Testing
     ·    Clean Management
Fixes and Tools
Contingency Planning for Business
     ·    Backup and Recovery
     ·    Manual Intervention
     ·    Alternative Suppliers
     ·    System isolation
     ·    Liability
Personal Y2K Planning
Resources for further research
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Our meetings are free and open to anyone with an interest in the topic
of the evening.  We will be providing food and drink for the evening.
If you have any questions please contact: 

  Heather Flanagan 
  SAS Institute Inc. 
  SAS Campus Drive 
  Cary, NC  27513  
  (919) 677-8000 x5522
  heflan@unx.sas.com

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Directions to Research Triangle Institute
(see also:  http://www.rti.org/images/campus.gif)

 From I-40 west of RTP (e.g. Chapel Hill):

  Get onto I-40 heading east.  Follow I-40 to the NC-147 - Durham
  Freeway - North (towards Durham).  Stay in right lane.  Shift right as
  soon as possible after merging with traffic coming off I-40 westbound.

  Exit to the right at the next exit (Cornwallis Road).  At top of exit,
  turn to the left.  (If you turn right and cross over the bridge, you
  are going the wrong direction.)  After turning left onto Cornwallis,
  shift immediately to the right lane.  Take the second right onto East
  Institute Drive.  Take the second right off of East Institute Drive. 
  Dreyfus Laboratory will be the first building on your right.  Use the
  parking lot in front of the Lab and enter at the main entrance.

 From I-40 east of RTP (e.g. Raleigh):

  Get onto I-40 heading west.  Follow I-40 to the NC-147 - Durham
  Freeway - North (towards Durham).  Shift to rightmost lane as soon as
  possible Exit to the right at the next exit (Cornwallis Road).  At top
  of exit, turn to the left.  (If you turn right and cross over the
  bridge, you are going the wrong direction.)  After turning left onto
  Cornwallis, shift immediately to the right lane.  Take the second
  right onto East Institute Drive.  Take the second right off of East
  Institute Drive.  Dreyfus Laboratory will be the first building on
  your right.  Use the parking lot in front of the Lab and enter at the
  main entrance.

 From north of RTP (e.g. Durham):

  Get onto NC-147 - Durham Freeway - south.  Exit at the Cornwallis Road
  exit.  At the top of the exit, turn left to cross over the bridge. 
  After turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to the right
  lane.  Take the second right onto East Institute Drive.  Take the
  second right off of East Institute Drive.  Dreyfus Laboratory will be
  the first building on your right.  Use the parking lot in front of the
  Lab and enter at the main entrance.

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Heather Flanagan                       Associate Systems Programmer
heflan@unx.sas.com                     SAS Institute
(919)677-8000 x5522