DWH Team Status Report for 07/12/2013
DWH KFS Decision Support JIRA Tasks - Status Chart
Prior Two Week Activity
Kuali Financial System
Completed
- Cognos Report Stats:
- Number Cognos Reports to be developed for Phase I: 38
- Number of Phase I Cognos Reports Completed: 14
- Remaining Phase I Reports to be developed: 24
- Balance job is completed and loading without errors. Balance totals have not been verified.
In Progress
- Re-architecting of PURAP fact table (Tammy)
- Consultant is working on scripts to automate validation of balances
- Student is working on adding color scheme and cleaning up GUIs for Account Transaction and Fund Summary Reports
- Build Cognos framework to allow building of reports for KFS reconciliation process (Tammy)
- Document and provide data warehouse team the list of fund groups needed to add to the database for FS0150 style reports (business analyst/focus group)
- Enhancement to DWH BOToolkit to allow calls to new KFS web services (student)
- Prototyping of prompt pages for Cognos reports (student)
- Scripts to add KFS attributes to legacy data warehouse (employee, payroll, fs). Coding is complete - currently testing every night for pps daily and every pps month-end. (Grace)
- Updates to the org dimension job to add hierarchy level code
- Development of scripts to migrate open receivables transactions from legacy DWH to KFS DWH (Anh)
Data Warehouse Support
DWH is operating well as usual, Grace is acting as primary DWH production support.
Grace spent a significant amount of time the week before last working on a data extraction request from Payroll and UCIMC. This was an urgent request for a report needed for UCOP.
Upgrade to Java 7 - Student developer will work on upgrading DWH to Java 7 this summer.
Payroll Certification - Minor turnover to fix a problem with report display/pagination. Starting work to provide information to NSF for audit.
Next two week planned activities and deliverables
- Continue making bug fixes to ETL scripts and testing
- Continue working on approval for high priority reports
- Plans for Cognos portal/user experience for Cognos (SNAP) - will work with focus group on this project
- Continue report development for highest priority reports
- Students will continue to develop KFS look-up reports and prompt pages in Cognos
Production support trends in terms of tickets either in JIRA or Footprints.
DWH Production Support 10%, New development 90% (except Grace)
Staffing issues or personnel related matters
Our student Aileen is leaving this week to work an internship over the summer. Since our other student Matt has picked up Cognos so quickly, we will have him work on some of the projects originally intended for Aileen this summer.
Budget requests for any new software or hardware
Training requests
Things learned, suggestions for improvements or anything else you think might be important
We plan to upgrade to SQL Server 2012 on our development server, but there are concerns this might cause some setbacks for the KFS Decision Support project.