Text item: Re: Installation information for Marketscope Feed




>I have requested a 4.8Kbps circuit from our Wide-area Network Engineering
>Group for this service. The engineer, Maurice Matthias, called Rex Ballard
to
>notify him, as requested in your install doc. Rex said that this was an
>obsolete speed, not supported any more, and suggested 9.6Kbps. Which
>speed modems should we order? If it's all the same with you, we would,
>of course, prefer 9.6!

The equipment currently in production for Smith Barney only supports 4.8,
but we're in the process of testing equipment that will support 9.6.
I'd suggest installing a 9.6 line and settting the modems to actually clock
at 4.8.  Then, if you're still on 3270 when we upgrade, it will simply be a
modem configuration change.


>Do you have a specification or an IBM NCP definition for the device(s) at
>your end of the line?

No, I',m sorry we don't.

>Do you have any pre-defined way of starting a session in the morning, such
> as a logon sequence, or do you expect that the logon is automatic?

The system sends a 'hello'-type message; if it doesn't get the expected
response, it will try a logon using a username and password you supply.
We'd prefer an automatic logon, as we've experienced all of the problems
you might imagine with passwords expiring, etc., and since the logon is
done without human intervention, it sometimes takes a while to determine
what went wrong.

>Do sessions "idle" overnight, or are they dropped and restarted daily?

Generally, they drop in the evening and come back in the early morning.  If
there is backlogged data, we'll run overnite (with a break in the evening
while we close our production day).

We'd like to know what your normal hours of operation are so that we can
make sure that we make best use of your available time.

>Also, we had a thought about the nightly tapes that you send us. If we
>install a TCP/IP connection between the two organizations, are these files
> of a size which we could transmit using FTP, and would you support such
> a service?

The TCP/IP feed is moving toward the direction of not requiring any tapes;
hopefully by the time you convert, that will be the case...

>John Lister.
>201-524-2045

>John_Lister@nyccip01.lehman.com
>jnlister@lehman.com

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