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RESEARCRAND DEVELOPMENT, NEUCHATEL - QUARTERLY REPORT DIVISION, . EDP SUPPORT SUBJECT TITLE . COt,PUTER'APPLICATIONS PERIOD COVERED~: JULY-SEPTEMBER 1'.988' WRITTEN BY . Clark-D. (DOC) KEYWORDS . COLDAC, electronic agend'a;, quality audit, TLA, data base, cigarette modelling, simulation, TLA sample control, CIR applications. CICS-2 for R&D We have decided to use the second CICS production system for all R&D applications. The migration from CICS-1 to CICS-2'will be done on an "application by application" basis over the next twelve months. This decision was initially forced by the use of CSP for our new/modified applications, but provides a useful separation of responsibility for R&D versus FTR applications, especially considering the move to the European Data Center during 1!989. TLA - TOBACCO LOT ANALYSIS TQA - TOBACCO QUALITY AUDIT Modification / re-implementation of the entire set of programs for the TLA group has been completed and tested!. Transfer into production is scheduled for mid-October, with the new application for the TQA (Tobacco Quality Aud!it)'. PROJECT-COST/REBILLING APPLICATION This entire application has been re-written in CSP (Cross-System Product from IBM). Modifications and enhancements were made as required by the users. Transfer into production required development of new procedures for CSP generated applications. These are being coordinated with the European Data Center Group in Lausanne.

RESEARCH'AND DEVELOPMENT, NEUCHATEL - QUARTERLY REPORT NON-TOBACCO MATERIAL INSPECTION Business-level d'efinition, including Data Flow Diagrams, of the Non-Tobacco Material Inspection area have been~developed with the users. A fairly good understanding of the requirements for the routine activities in this area is now available. An Affiliate-level application needs to be developed for their day-to-day activities, which will be coordinated - if possible - with activities at other affiliates. Additionally, a European data-base with analysis and reporting capabilities for data fromm all affiliates needs to be developed. Program design has beguni, with the objective of a first operational system.by year-end. Obviously, coordination with all other affiliates for their local aspects will require assistance from:Lausanne and:lextend well into 1!989. SMOKING LAB/QC AUTOMATION Our DEC/VAX system for the Smoking Lab Automation project has been received and installed. A common DEC/Vax development system with FTR has also been received and instalied. We received andil!oaded the Holland developed version of the Beckman CALS system. We also received and installed the newest release (6.3) of the basic Beckman CALS system. Several training courses fr=Beckman and from Digital Equipment have been followed by our MIS development staff. Smoking lab supervisors who are involved in this project have received some training and! an additional week's course at Beckman in EnQland is scheduled for the end of October. Definitions of the data base, tests, and'screen images will be actively begun end of October whernthe users have completed their training course. The TETA (Technicon Tobacco Analysis) workstation, basedlon a "'standard" IBM-PC has been modified and installed in Holland for their CALS-based Smoking Lab Automation system. Communication between the systems works well. "Final" modifications will be made during, October, at which time this workstation will be considered "completed"'for the European project. The programming of the DIGIMETRY workstation in LIL for the CO/NO instrument has been "complet+ed,". Electrical modification of the instrument to replace the BCD Digital voltmeters with RS-232 output digital voltmeters is underway. Problems were encountered with the first units we received, and replacements shoul'dbe available about end-November. Final developments and testing of the workstation will be done at that time.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, NEUCHATEL - QUARTERLY REPORT The Ungermann-Bass Net-One LAN has been extended to the R&D buildinq for development and testing of the Vax-CALS system. Extension to the Smoking Lab area will await modification to that building. Our temporary help of an additional person~for 6 months to assist with the implementation of the Beckman CALS system for the Smoking Lab ended in July. His assistance helped greatly with this project, especially all aspects related to network communication. COLDAC SMOKING LABORATORY SYSTEM We have experienced'many minor (and some not so minor) problems with the current hardware and software. Obviously, the system is beginning to show its age - and possibly its attitude about being replaced. The current schedule calls for the new system based on VAX and Beckman CALS to be operational by April 1989, so minimum effort will be expended on modifications to the oldsystemi. HARDWARE/SOFTWARE - INSTALLED/ORDERED 4 IBM-3192-G (Graphics) Terminals received and installed 4 IBM-PS/2 systems receivedland installed 1 IBM-3812 Laser printer received and installed. PROFS TRAINING Twenty additional users were trained during th~is period. There are now 77 "userids" and 901"nicknames"' in R&D. DATA RESOURCES MANAGEMENT Work has continued slowlyonthisreviision of thePMII Reference-of-Codes. Input has been supplied to Lausanne for the definition of the chapter concerning Cigarette code. A brief presentation of the new software product SPITAB, tolbe used for this project, was received from Lausanne.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, NEUCHATEL - QUARTERLY REPORT STRATEGY: MARKETING DATA BASE The strategy system being used by the Lausanne-EEC Marketing Department has been installed on~a PC here in Neuchatel for the Product Development Division. Many difficulties were encountered, especially with~managing the HP laserjet printer. The tool is now under evaluation by the user department. CDB - Cigarette Data Bank Most of the modifications to this set of programs have been made and are in production. A few additional "cosmetic" changes remain which~wilL be incorporated as soon as time permits. The major remaining activities relate to management of materials - which is directly related'to the Incoming Materials project; improved reporting capabilities - which relates to replacement of APLDI with FOCUS; and replacement of the D L/1 data base - which is related to transfer of this application to the European Data Center in 1989:. The schedule for addressing these issues will be defined in the 4th quarter. CIM = CIGARETTE-INSPECTION-MODULE-EVALUATION A significant amount of effort has been expended on supporting the data analysis from the European Cigarette-Inspection-Module study. Many statisti:cali treatments of the data were performed, and an interimireport was written with the project leader responsible for this project. The final report for this phase of the study is being preparedinow. DOC/elli/'12'.10.88