THIS SITE. I created this site for a 2001 group project at DePaul University's Computer Career Program (CCP). In the project, my partners and I designed and created a turnkey brokerage system.

OUR SYSTEM. We wrote the system for an IBM mainframe running MVS, TSO and ISPF. The online components were several CICS programs. One group of programs accessed client accounts stored as 160-byte, VSAM records. The other group of programs allowed brokers to invest online. This second group of programs accessed another VSAM file, also composed of 160-byte records.

REPORT GENERATION. Batch Cobol programs prepared reports for clients and management. Other Cobol applications accessed a DB2 database that stored market information. A broker could select and run any of the CICS applications through an online menu system. Each of us partners wrote our own JCL for our programs.

DOCUMENTATION, including systems analysis and instruction manuals, appeared on the Web. I led the documentation effort, providing templates to the other team members.

MY CONTRIBUTIONS. My work began with the systems analysis phase. I designed, composed, tested and debugged 14 programs for the project. For each program, I prepared and published a brief, online instruction manual. One of my partners linked all the manuals to a central Web site.

WALKTHOUGH. We demonstrated the system during a walkthough on January 26, 2002. I hosted the client menu system portion of that walkthough. The walkthough succeeded even beyond our high hopes. Our work not only satisfied, but exceeded project requirements.