Subject: Status Report From: Rex Ballard Date: March 14, 1995

Accomplishments:

Project: Telerate/Canadian News Wire -	Est 30	Act 30	Week 30
	Leslie pointed out that several pages were not being passed
	from Canadian Newswire to MarketScope.  Phil worked on the
	problem and found several uninitialized fields.  Some of these
	fields are ignored, others were suspected of causing the
	stories to be discarded.  After further research, it was found
	that the index had pages which had no related descriptions.
	Phil corrected all of the problems over the weekend and the
	stories were sent to telerate.  Text pages were resent
	to telerate after noon Monday.

Project: Market Scope-			Est 40	Act 6	Week 6
	Shauna Morrison has planned to use test pages (69,76,77) for
	production.  As a result Phil and Rex will need to call all of
	the customers to make sure that they stop any special processing
	of those feeds.  Phil proposes moving the test pages to ticker
	symbol XXX; segment 2.

Project: Enhanced Stock Reports -	Est 40	Act 2	Week 2
	Distribution rules need to be ironed out between the analysis
	and editorial groups.  George Knapp will be working this out.
	We need formal specifications of PDF from ADOBE.  There are
	appearantly binary characters in the content and we need to
	determine what will be needed to distribute this feature.

Project: First Boston -			Est 16	Act 4	Week 4
	Phil and Rex worked with Eric in operations and were able to 
	get a working connection.  The datascope that was available
	for tracing X.25 packets was not working properly.  We need
	to make sure that we can monitor connections accurately to
	facilitate new X.25 customers.

Project: Composite feed profiles -	Est 60	Act 8	Week 8 
	We need to define a mechanism for defining and associating
	profiles for PDF and Postscript.
	We need formal specifications of PDF from ADOBE.

Project: Encryption -			Est 40	Act 2	Week 2
	Rex will prepare documents to discuss encryption and security
	issues for TCP/IP and internet distribution.


To:	Tom Gerhard