Pennsylvania Banner Users Group 2008 Fall Conference

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Banner 8.1 Requirements and Tips

Session Rules of Etiquette Please turn off your cell phone/pager

If you must leave the session early, please do so as discreetly as possible

Please avoid side conversation during the session

Internationalization Requirements

Increase bio-demographics fields

Increase currency amount and rate fields

Move to Oracle AL32UTF8 database

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Bio DemographicsThese fields have been expanded in the database tables►

First_Name 60

MI 60

Legal_Name 500

Street_Line1 75

Street_Line2 75

Street_Line3 75

City 50

Zip 30

Phone_Area 6

Phone_Number 12

Phone_Ext 10

Email_Address 128

SSN 15

House Number 10

Street Line 4 75

County Code for Phone 4

Surname Prefix 60

These fields have been added in the databases

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Currency

Currency amount fields have been expanded to (17,2).

General and Finance Only The currency fields in AR, Financial Aid, HR and

Student will not be changed. Advancement currency fields will not be changed with

the exception of column, AFRCORG_GOAL, which will be expanded to (17,2).

Rate amount fields have been expanded to 7 decimal places. (17,7)

General Only

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Forms

IDEN forms will be modified First Name, Middle Name display will be

lengthened Tooltip feature added

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Oracle Database will need to be UTF-8 enabled Semantics of database need to be changed from BYTE to

CHAR (NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS = CHAR) This will necessitate a re-install of the database

Two methods expdb/impdp csscan/csaltr

Pro*C utilizes ICU (International Component for Unicode). ICU are C/C++ libraries used for Unicode and Globalization

support for application software. Developed by IBM.

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Software upgrades

Install Oracle Enterprise Edition 10.2.0.3

Upgrade your application server to 10.1.2.0.2

Upgrade your Oracle Forms toolset to 10.1.2.0.2

Install ICU (International Components for Unicode) release 3.6 on your job submission server

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Create empty database nls_length_semantics=BYTE Change nls_length_semantics=CHAR csalter or impdp data into new database

Forms Set nls_length_semantics=CHAR

prior to compiling forms nls_lang setting needs to be consistent on application

server and database server

ex: nls_lang=american_america.alu32utf8

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RIA – Rich Internet Applications Adobe Flash Platform

Improved user experience Charting and graphic display of data Supports multimedia content

Requires OAS 10gR3 – 10.1.3.1.0

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RIA - New technology HR Effort Reporting and Labor Redistribution Enrollment Management (optional) Travel and Expense (optional)

Workflow requires OAS10gR3 10.1.3.4

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Summary

Banner 8.0 Requirements 10.2.0.3 Oracle EE Server 10.1.2.0.2 OAS

Banner 8.1 Requirements 10.1.3.1 OAS 10.1.3.4 OAS for Workflow

Questions & Answers

Thank You!

Julie Turnbull

julie.turnbull@sungardhe.com

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