Admissions Purge

This FOCEXEC and COBOL procedure will purge all of the admission data in SIS for selected students. Check out this case study for information on my theory behind using COBOL in conjunction with FOCUS. The COBOL program is used to enter in the student id. This information is saved in an external data file. Next, the first FOCEXEC will check to make sure the prospective students can be legitimately purged from SIS. Those who pass that round of error checking will have batch transactions created that will remove most of the on-line data. Unfortunately (at least in SIS 88.1), the student id cannot be completely removed in one cycle. This is where the second part comes in. It will create batch transactions that will remove the student ids from SIS. As you will see, these routines need to be coordinated with the running of the batch maintenance cycle. One caveat; if you have prospect information in the system for a student, this could present a problem as SIS (please correct me if I'm wrong) does not have a batch transaction to remove this type of data. Finally, as I was putting the program code together, I found the VMS command procedure for running the COBOL program was missing. It should be fairly easy to create by hand. Please e-mail me if you have any difficulties.