Subject: Status Report From: Rex Ballard Date: March 20, 1995

Accomplishments:

Project: MarketScope Support -		Est -	Act 10 Week 10
	*	Daily System and Batch Job checks.		2
	*	News Machine problems (DLPU15, NEWS04).		2
	*	Problems with Client Feed to Prudential.		2
	*	Problems with Client Feed to Dean Witter.	2
	*	Problems with Client Feed to Bonneville.		2
	*	2 Seg. Stat Tape for Prudential.			3
	*	Lotus Update Problems.				2
	*	Problems with EPCFRP END-OF-DAY Procedure


Project: Telerate/Canadian MKS -	Est 36	Act 36	Week 6
	Phil supported Leslie in developing and porting an upgrade
	to the MarketScope Text Page Formatter.  Phil developed an
	automatic version of the Text Page Formatter.



Project: Market Scope -			Est 40	Act 16	Week 10
	Shauna Morrison has planned to use test pages (69,76,77) for
	production.  The following customers have been notified:
	ADP		3/13	Bob Smarden
	ARTS		3/15	Bill Boeker
	OLDE		3/13	Tony Michewicz
	Bonneville	3/13	Vige
	ILX Systems	3/14	Faiza Kamal
	Prudential	3/14	Morris Brown
	Quotron		3/14	Bill Leiby
	The following customers still need to be notified:
	BETA Systems
	E.D. Jones
	I.F.G.
	I.L.X. Systems
	Morgan Stanly
	Piper Jaffry
	Reuter's (Toronto)
	Dean Whitter
	Smith Barnay Shearson
	Telerate Canada
	Track Data
	Wang/Shark
	Reuters (XCI)

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: MAID Stock Reports -		Est 40	Act 6	Week 6
	FEED_DRIVER54 continued to have problems sending data.
	Currently Phil and Rex are working with with Carl Midson of
	M.A.I.D. and Angela Vincent of S&P ComStock to allow the Feed
	Driver for M.A.I.D.  to connect to MCGRAWNET instead of
	TYMNET.  They are working on connecting through their
	Frame Relay network.

Project: First Boston -			Est 20	Act 8	Week 8
	Phil is working with First Boston.  They are receiving
	stories, but they are not parsing them correctly.

Project: SNA (3270) Feeds -		Est 40	Act 24	Week 19
	Updated Feed Driver/Transmitter programs and began testing the
	3270 version with PSI.  There are still problems initializing
	the Andrew Box.

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.  They have been requested from George
	Knapp.  George was not able to provide them.  Rex is analysing
	the existing postscript formatter code to determine feasability.

Project: Encryption -			Est 40	Act 10	Week 8
	Rex prepared documents to discuss encryption and security
	issues for TCP/IP and internet distribution.  He needs
	a graphics editor and presentation quality word processor
	for some of the work.  The PC is on order.  In addition,
	Rex will need access to the Internet to Retrieve current
	documents.

Project: General Administrative -	Est -	Act 14	Week 14
	Phil met with Rex to discuss project status
	Rex met with Tom to discuss projects, plans, and priorities.

Projects On Hold:

Project: Daily News Electronic Feed

	*	EPSDSP still has "Invalid Value Block" messages.

	*	Changes need to be made to the distribution to
			   allow use of VMS system locks.

	 COMMENTS/ISSUES:

	 *	I have not heard from Morgan Stanley re: X.25 testing.

	 *	There is now 1 Microcom 3270 Protocol Converter (formerly
		  used by Quick America) available as a HOT spare.




New Customers & Upgrades:
Company Name	Product Name	Format	Transmission	Notes
Compuserve	Stock Reports	PDF	TCP/IP		line installed, router to be configured by March 23
Wall St. by Fax	Stock Reports	PDF,PS	TCP/IP		line installed, router to be configured by March 20
M.A.I.D.	Stock Reports	PDF	X.25		Currently testing feed via Timenet. Last contact
							March 20.
Sandpoint	Stock Reports	PDF	X.25		Conversion for page-based marketscop to MarketScope
							via generic feed.  Using existing X.25 cricuit.
Paine Webber	MarketScope		Tape		Sample tapes provided.  Now discussing TCP/IP.
		Stock Reports	PS
ILX Systems	MarketScope	text	3270>X.25	Conversion to X.25. Line installed; waiting for application testing.
Morgan Stanley	Marketscope	text	3270>TCP/IP	Conversion to TCP/IP being discussed.
							They are working with ISS. Will follow up next week.
CS First Boston	Stock Reports	text	X.25		Application testing Continues.
Bear Stearns	Stock Reports	text			Discussions in progress re:feed requirements.
Royal Alliance	MarketScope	text	X.25		Discussions in progress.  Three phase migration, depending on market.
UBIQ		MarketScope	text			Architecture being firmed up.  Delivery to News Machine at UBIQ.
Prudential	MarketScopeACE	text			Sent test tapes.
Quick America	MarketScope				Decommissioned at Walt Arvin's request.


To:	Tom Gerhard