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If you consider that some vtx infobases have databases behind them, you
might use parts of the Corp. VTX Library. Send mail to DONJON::CVP
if you need more info on that program.
Also, if your vtx is pointing to a "proper" server, you could say from DCL
$VTX DISINFO
for databases/information of interest to DIS.
_bill
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| This is a long shot, but ...
In someone's office on the first floor of MR1, on the north wall of the
small office area directly adjacent to and to the northeast of a major
building corridor intersection, is a color poster done up by some corporate
group which shows the data flow involved in various manufacturing, sales
and service database systems. Since the room is directly beneath the Tops-20
group's office space, the pole coordinates are probably something like
MR1-1/P13.
I know this because a little over a year ago I often used the conference
room on the far side of the wall wearing the poster because it had a
speaker phone. I often admired the poster while waiting for other groups
to leave the conference room. Sorry, I can't tell you the room's name;
since the rooms were all named after important computer system components,
it is probably something like "Cold Solder Joint C/R".
I no longer work in MR. However, if you can get someone who works there
to follow these directions, you should be able to find the poster. If they
ask politely, you should be able to discover who made the poster, and
therefore has a good viewpoint of the corporation's database structures.
I'm sure the owner of the poster would prefer that that information
be posted here for all to see, rather than being repeatedly interrupted
with the same questions.
Better still would be for someone else who knows about the poster to put
the information here. I bet it is made by some group in PK, but that
is only a guess.
/AHM
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| That sounds like the poster prepared by Customer Administrative
Services (CAS). That details the order flow in the company.
Associated with CAS is a common reference group in Chelmsford.
This group provides commonly used reference databases to applications
in the US.
The problem of databases or information stores is so complex, from
an organizational standpoint, that I am unaware of any comprehensive
effort going on. The closest you can get is the output of the three
top level systems committees in the corporation:
Materials Management
Order Administration
Financial Systems
I think the Systems Steering Committee heads up the coordination
effort. Theoretically, all MIS applications fall under this umbrella.
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