By end April 1994 there were 120 errors and queries with phase II (00606).1994 Jul-SepBy end June 1994, things were improving (00521, 00575), some bugs had been fixed and Gordan thought there no outstanding data problems (01050).
By early July 1994 of the 178 errors and queries raised with version II, 100 were bugs in the programs or data (00606) although there were only about 50 or 60 different problems (00525).By August 1994 the bugs had been reduced to manageable proportions (00633, 00747).
At end June 1994 the transfer of data between Holland and London was not working (00586) and there were still transfer problems in August (00711).1994 Oct-DecIn September 1994 the newsletter reported that the backlog of policy transfers between offices had been cleared but there was still confusion over the operation of the transfer mechanism which they hoped would be alleviated by the new System Manual (00802).
In October 1994, Gordan reckoned that the electronic transfer was now working (01061).
Around November 1993 they had problems with the Novell communication protocol and Sybase which particularly affected Essex. This was eventually solved by installing a Unix communications protocol but 2 weeks were lost on the phase II work by the team putting in a temporary fix (00337).1994 Apr-Jun
In June 1994, the database was crashing sporadically with a Sybase error. This mainly affected London and sometimes occurred once a fortnight and sometimes more than once on one day (00583, 00522, 00561).1994 Jul-Sep
In August and September 1994 the Sybase crash only occurred once (01058).
In January 1995, Keith found that endorsement premiums were not always shown correctly in reports (00825).
By January 1995, there was general agreement that the migration to Unix had not improved performance which was still too slow in some areas (01064, 00830) particularly in claims (01120).
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