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11/20/2017 - 12/1/2017

Completed

  • Informatica core addition pricing negotiation.
    • Purchase by 12/15/17 - License: $57,420 / Maintenance: $12,632 / Total First Year: $70,052
  • Dev OR-DEV-DB server migration.
    • All dev Informatica connection objects updated with new hostname. 
  • KC clinical trial staging loading ETL design.
  • Informatica connectivity issue with Oracle 12c database instance TICKTEST.
    • Updated the connect string to use ODBC DSN name in lieu of direct connect.
  • Work estimate for Pinnacle (new telephone billing system) data integration task.
  • KR COI application workflow project meeting.
    • COI team needs a daily report (Cognos) of awards with the current conflict of interest disclosure form submission info.
  • Temporary schedule change for KFS7 Tst workflows.
  • Daily OLTP dev workflow troubleshooting for missing web services tables.
    • Issue being caused by conflict with both the dev and tst workflow writing to the same database instance (Nebula). 
  • New UCPath/KFS consultant (Sujith Gadagottu) onboarding.
  • Service-now incidents completed:

In Progress

  • Waiting for confirmation on STG_LOAD_GEC_ERROR_CHECK_D_FUND_OVERDRAFT session removal from ODS workflows.
  • Reviewing Cognos 11 Dev.
    • All Office of Research content re-imported with most recent developed reports.
    • Regression testing all OR reports.
    • Reviewing the revamped UI and new features.

Planned

  • Subaward dimensional model design.
  • KC Proposal dimensional model design.
  • SPA awards dimensional model design (On-hold for KR launch).


11/6/2017 - 11/17/2017

Completed

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  • Informatica Advanced Edition upgrade completed on production.
    • All existing Oracle ODBC connections converted to native.
  • KFS cost sharing workflow failure troubleshooting.
    • Issue with bulk load on tables with indexes.
  • All Informatica MySQL connection objects created as *_test to point to new DB server.
  • New Cognos dashboard reports completed.
    • Aggregated sponsored funding
    • School to dept drill-through
    • Clinical trials vs. Non clinical trials
  • Office of Research annual reports review.
    • Numerous changes needed to existing reports around report content and formatting. 
  • Deployment completed:
  • Service-now incidents completed:

In Progress

  • OR Cognos dashboard design version 2.
  • Initial planning phases of KC Clinical Trials and Subaward dimensional models.
  • SPA awards dimensional model design
    • Dimensional modeling
    • Informatica mapping design
    • Cognos Framework model design.

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  • Discussion with POM on refining KFS workflow overnight support.  
    • Adjusted the Ops escalation instructions to call primary support if job isn't restarted within 15 minutes.
  • Activity by department and quarter Cognos report completed.
  • KFS daily dev workflow schedule changed to resolve failures caused by KFSDAY2 schema refresh.
    • Dev schedule updated to run at 12:05am (confirmation from Kevin Chung).
  •  KFS daily workflow enhanced to minimize missteps in POM ops support.
    • Updated all sessions to abort upon failure to minimize ops failure notification time.
    • Updated timer logic to run LD sessions in the event the workflow is started after 2:35am.
  • Working with admissions to establish Informatica connections to the sisedw database.
  • Testing Informatica connection to the new MySQL dev database (voyager).
  • Service-now incidents completed:

In Progress

  • OR Cognos dashboard design version 2.
  • Initial planning phases of KC Clinical Trials and Subaward dimensional models.
  • SPA awards dimensional model design
    • Dimensional modeling
    • Informatica mapping design
    • Cognos Framework model design.

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  • Informatica Advanced Edition upgrade completed on Dev.
    • Native Oracle driver included with our AE purchase as agreed upon.
  • Troubleshooting slow write performance on AWS hosted DBs resolved.
    • Converted existing SIS related connection objects to use the native Oracle connector.
    • Write performance seems to be drastically faster with Oracle native based on a few small load tests.
  • New MySQL DB (Voyager) connection testing.
  • Informatica World 2017 conference attendance in San Francisco (5/15-5/18).
  • Service-now incidents completed:

In Progress

  • Activity by department Cognos report design/publish.
  • OR Cognos dashboard design version 2.
  • Initial planning phases of KC Clinical Trials and Subaward dimensional models.
  • SPA awards dimensional model design
    • Dimensional modeling
    • Informatica mapping design
    • Cognos Framework model design.

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  • Cognos Dashboard initial draft design completed.
  • KFS nightly workflow scheduling and monitoring migration to Zena and Operations group complete.
  • All OBDC DSNs/Informatica connections changed to use the new production SPA application database.
  • New employee (Khader Abdul) onboarding.
    • Access requests/general troubleshooting
    • UCI Informatica environment overview session
  • New Secret Server group (Informatica Admins) created for Informatica support requests.
  • Informatica Advanced Edition purchase finalized.  Received software/license keys.
  • Awards by Agency (Physical Sciences) Cognos report for OR.
  • Office of Research Data Summit event with Stanford.
  • Trip planning for Informatica World 2017.
  • Service-now incidents completed:

In Progress

  • Troubleshooting slow write performance on AWS hosted DBs.
    •  Researching on how row-by-row processing is done by Informatica when using generic ODBC driver.
  • OR Cognos dashboard design version 2.
  • Initial planning phases of KC Clinical Trials and Subaward dimensional models.
  • SPA awards dimensional model design
    • Dimensional modeling
    • Informatica mapping design
    • Cognos Framework model design.

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  • Informatica KSAMS roles with elevated privileges creation as well as removal of old role complete.
  • Technical Issue with Informatica sessions going into wait mode.
    • Issue being caused by long running LDAP sessions and exceeding the max processes allowed in the dev domain.
    • Technical discussion on Informatica file transfer method for the KFS data integration process.
  • Order document for Informatica AE upgrade finalized.
  • Discussions with Informatica sales rep and licensing specialist to clarify Metadata Manager connector licensing.
    • MDX includes one connector to a RDBMS of choice (Oracle).
    • Need to purchase one additional (SQL Server) to see all data lineage for our KFS mapping.
  • Attended the Amazon Web Services Education Data Event.
  • Service-now incidents completed:

In Progress

  • Cognos Dashboard initial draft design based on feedback from Barbara on requested changes.
  • Convert LD_LDGR_ENTR_T table dynamic loading to a native Informatica mapping to minimize impact on KFS nightly loading time.
  • Initial planning phases of KC Clinical Trials and Subaward dimensional models.
  • SPA awards dimensional model design
    • Dimensional modeling
    • Informatica mapping design
    • Cognos Framework model design.
  • KFS nightly workflow scheduling and monitoring migration to Zena and Operations group.
    • All prep work completed and ready to deploy Zena Informatica schedule!
    • Planning for a Thursday (4/27) deployment.

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  • Informatica KSAMS roles with elevated privileges creation as well as removal of old role complete.
  • Office of Research Cognos Dashboard proof of concept design complete.
    • Initial design include proposal/award activity totals with interactive prompts.
    • Drill-through reports requested for next draft.
  • Labor ledger loading with benefits load testing from KFSCURRENT complete.
    • Complete load with historical records (~24m)  takes an additional 157 minutes.
  • Nightly KFS loading technical discussion with DWH team to discuss alternative methods to handle the additional processing time with the labor ledger.
    •  Need to separate out the LD_LDGR_ENTR_T table from the dynamic staging and convert to native Informatica.  Reduces load time by ~2hrs.
  • Kuali Research Kickoff meeting at Office of Research.
  • OR dev database migration connectivity re-testing due to IP address/firewall rule changes.
  • Onboarding/orientation for new student intern (Anthony Nguyen).
  • Onboarding/orientation for KFS Informatica Consultant (Saurav Chakraborty).
  • Service-now incidents completed:

In Progress

  • Convert LD_LDGR_ENTR_T table dynamic loading to a native Informatica mapping to minimize impact on KFS nightly loading time.
  • SPA awards dimensional model design
    • Dimensional modeling
    • Informatica mapping design
    • Cognos Framework model design.
  • KFS nightly workflow scheduling and monitoring migration to Zena and Operations group.
    • SSH keypair configuration on etl-dev and etl0 in progress.

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  • Complete SPA reports inventory analysis complete for SPA Award dimensional model.
  • Final pricing for Informatica Advanced Edition complete.
    • $36,600 for edition upgrade.  Down from initial $50k pricing.
  • Performance testing requested by Ellucian of Informatica for SIS to locally hosted Oracle DB complete.
    • No performance issues when writing to KFSDEV.
    • Severe performance issues on Ellucian cloud hosted servers.
  • Bio Science dept Talend dashboard demo with Office of Research.
  • New development SPA database migration completed.
    • All Informatica/Cognos connections as well as ODBC DSNs updated to new host.
    • Firewall rules now in place for all informatica servers and workstation.
  • Onboarding prep work for student intern/Anthony Nguyen complete. 
  • Service-now incidents completed:

In Progress

  • Informatica KSAMS roles with elevated privileges creation.
    • 2 new roles created.
    • Existing privileges migration
      • Users (complete)
      • Folders (complete)
      • Connection (in progress)
    • Current User role users need to be transitioned to new Developer role.
    • Removal of current User role needs to be requested after PRD deployment is complete.
  • SPA awards dimensional model design
    • Dimensional modeling
    • Informatica mapping design
    • Cognos Framework model design.
  • KFS nightly workflow scheduling and monitoring migration to Zena and Operations group.
    • Workflow execution testing through SSH from Zena host successful on both etl-dev and etl0.
    • Currently waiting for WSG to grant Informatica server access to qaoper.

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  • Informatica Developer Training (3/6-3/9).
  • Half-year Activity by School and Year Cognos report design completed and published.
  • New development SPA database migration.
    • All Informatica/Cognos connections updated and tested.
  • Aiding the Middleware team in configuring/troubleshooting Informatica connectivity to LDAP update only servers.
    • Connectivity failures on port 700 and 701 identified as firewall and resolved.
  • JIRA's completed
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  • Service-now incidents completed:

In Progress

  • Working on new Informatica KSAMS roles with elevated privileges
    • 2 new roles created.
    • Current User role users need to be transitioned to new Developer role.
    • Removal of current User role needs to be requested after PRD deployment is complete.
  • Negotiating pricing for Informatica Advanced Edition as well as core capacity addition.
  • New production SPA database migration.
    • All Informatica/Cognos connections as well as ODBC DSNs need to be updated.
    • Firewall rules for production need to be adjusted.
  • SPA awards dimensional model design
    • Dimensional modeling
    • Informatica mapping design
    • Cognos Framework model design.
  • KC proposal dimension daily loading mapping design.
  • Clinical trials Cognos report for OR (On-hold) 
    • Need additional fields in the proposal ODS table.
    • ETL and Cognos framework package needs to be adjusted.
  • Zena Agent install on etl-dev.
    • Mike Story currently testing workflow execution from Zena host.

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  • Additional fact table for KC Negotiation star completed.
    • Informatica workflow updated.
    • Cognos framework package updated with new star schema grouping updated.
  • OR data warehouse related tables migrated to Solar for OIR to access.
  • Common award dimension feasibility analysis. 
    • SPA/KFS GAP analysis.
    • Accounting will have Janine create a separate award dimension.
    • Will revisit at a later date.
  • Aiding the Middleware team in configuring/troubleshooting Informatica LDAP loading workflows.
    • Connectivity issue to ldap-dev resolved.  Issue related to TLS setting in addition to port setting on the Informatica connection object.
  • JIRA's completed
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  • Service-now incidents completed:

In Progress

  • SPA awards dimensional model design
    • Dimensional modeling
    • Informatica mapping design
    • Cognos Framework model design.
  • Informatica session statistics auditing capability survey for COMPASS workflows.
    • Designing POCs for several different design approaches. 
  • KC proposal dimension daily loading mapping design.
  • Clinical trials Cognos report for OR (On hold) 
    • Need additional fields in the proposal ODS table.
    • ETL and Cognos framework package needs to be adjusted.
  • New OR dev and prod database migration.
    • All Informatica/Cognos connections need to be changed.
    • Firewall rules for production.
    • Connectivity testing for production. 
  • Zena Agent install on etl-dev.
    • Waiting on firewall exceptions to be completed by the security team.

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  • New awards by purpose Cognos report complete.
  • Code review for all PURAP TEM objects for production deployment.
  • UCLA Informatica object import for UCPath. 
    • Shared folders created for all source, target, and transformations. 
  • Informatica developer training prep work complete.
    • Confirmed for 3/6-3/9 @AIRB1020
  • Presentation slides prep work for OIR DW information session.
  • JIRA's completed
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  • Service-now incidents completed:

In Progress

  • Additional fact table creation for KC Negotiation star.
  • Aiding the Middleware team in configuring/troubleshooting Informatica LDAP loading workflows.
    • Also migrating/testing connectivity to new ldap-dev server.
  • Clinical trials Cognos report for OR (On hold) 
    • Need additional fields in the proposal ODS table.
    • ETL and Cognos framework package needs to be adjusted.
  • New OR dev and prod database migration.
    • All Informatica/Cognos connections need to be changed.
    • Firewall rules for production.
    • Connectivity testing for production. 
  • Zena Agent install on etl-dev.
    • Waiting on firewall exceptions to be completed by the security team.

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  • UCLC Training
    • Sexual Harassment Prevention
    • Cyber Security Awareness
  • Awards by purpose Cognos report for 2015-2017 fiscal years
  • Awards by sponsor by school Cognos report for Q1 2017.
  • Code Review for OIR Compass ETL.
  • Daily GL dev nightly loading changed back to KFSDAY2.
  • ETL data flow overview meeting for OIR reporting team.
  • SISDEV connectivity from Informatica.
    • stunnel setup complete.
    • ODBC source setup and testing complete on etl-dev.
  • JIRA's completed
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  • Service-now incidents completed:

In Progress

  • UCLA Informatica object import UCPath.
    • Need to create shared folders. 
  • Informatica developer training proposal prep work.
    • AIRB training room requested for (3/6-3/9)
    • Received adjusted price quote for Level 1 Developer course.
    • Received customization confirmation from Informatica University.
  • Clinical trials Cognos report for OR (On hold) 
    • Need additional fields in the proposal ODS table.
    • ETL and Cognos framework package needs to be adjusted.
  • New OR dev and prod database migration.
    • All Informatica/Cognos connections need to be changed.
    • Firewall rules for production.
    • Connectivity testing for production. 
  • TEM data mart development code review and deployment prep work.
  • Zena Agent install on etl-dev.
    • Waiting on firewall exceptions to be completed by the security team.

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