My Cal Poly uPortal Channel Technologies Chris Stavros Web Strategist Ken Sperow Application Developer California Polytechnic State University • San Luis Obispo, CA

Cal Poly Web Infrastructure Goals Provide easier, more intuitive access to university applications and services (user benefit) Facilitate rapid application development and provide centralized developer resources (developer benefit) Build an infrastructure that guarantees the accuracy, availability and extensibility of disparate university data (everyone benefits) Establish a Web application infrastructure to guarantee interoperability and extensibility of future applications (everyone benefits)

Emph: arch is designed to tie disparate systems together University & system-wide

Student Account Transactions •Provides students an up-to-date statement (24/7) of their account for the currently active term. •Uses a type 4 JDBC driver (HiT JDBC/DB2 v2.6) to read data directly out of the Student Information System (SIS) (DB2 on an IBM mainframe). • Fast with minimal impact on the mainframe • Required some configuration (TCP port/ enable DDF listener) on the mainframe and granting user certain privileges (CREATE IN COLLECTION, BINDADD) •Db2 tables can be locked in off hours – code catches exception and reads data from the campus data warehouse (updated nightly)

Personal Information •Personal Information channel was part of a larger project to make username@calpoly a viable e-mail address for conducting all University business. •SIS address different than address in LDAP (no synchronization) •Two versions of channel.

Personal Information •The first channel allows students to view and change physical addresses (local, permanent, diploma mailing, and billing) and students/faculty/staff to update e-mail addresses. •The second channel allows the campus Help Desk to change e-mail addresses (they did not want the ability to change physical addresses). •Batch Updates used to update SIS (No relational integrity constraints in DB) •Used Oracle packages to limit access to DB tables.

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