Hello All TurboIMAGE, Image/SQL, and ALLBASE users:

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The SIGIMAGE and SIGHPSQL polls are now open !!
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The 2000 Enhancement Ballots for both SIGs are now up on the
web, and available for users to cast ballots for those HP 3000
database enhancements they would most like HP to do next....

*BUT*:  Before all IMAGE and ALLBASE users rush off to the
designated URL to vote, a couple notes on deadlines, procedures,
and changes to the ballots for 2000:

(1)   You do NOT have to be an Interex member to vote on the
SIGIMAGE and SIGHPSQL Ballots.  All users are encouraged to
vote (if you don't put in your two cents, others will get to make the
decision).

(2)   The SIGHPSQL Ballot (was SIGALLBASE) now contains ALL
SQL-related items that deal with both ALLBASE *and* the "SQL-
only" portions of Image/SQL.  Of 45 items now on the SIGHPSQL
Ballot, all but one or two also apply to SQL access to TurboIMAGE
via Image/SQL.  Therefore if you now do or plan to do *any* SQL
/ ODBC access to your TurboIMAGE databases via Image/SQL,
you need to VOTE ON BOTH BALLOTS.  The SIGHPSQL Ballot
also includes the 14 enhancement requests dealing directly with
the IMAGESQL utility program:  Items 08 - 21.  Note Items 22 - 38
on the SIGHPSQL ballot are "New / Improved SQL features for
both Allbase/SQL and Image/SQL";  Item 21 is the last IMAGESQL
utility enhancement.

(3)   With the SQL-related items moved to the SIGHPSQL Ballot,
the SIGIMAGE Ballot still has 40 items that deal with TurboIMAGE
and supporting utility programs:  DBUTIL, DBSCHEMA, QUERY.

(4)   In order to make what is now a hard deadline to get the "Top
20" results from each SIG Ballot to Interex in time for distribution
of the System Improvement Ballot (SIB) to all Interex members,
PLEASE VOTE BY CLOSE OF BUSINESS FRIDAY 14 APRIL 00.
That will give everyone 15 days to cast their ballot.  Note that just
as in '99, balloting is being done ONLY on the web this year....


Special thanks to my fellow member of the SIGIMAGE Executive
Committee Joe Geiser, for doing all the work to set up and host
the SIGIMAGE and SIGHPSQL 2000 Ballots on his web site.  The
results are of course being tallied in an Image/SQL database....
:-)

And now < drum roll > please proceed directly to a voting booth,
by pointing your browser at:          http://www.csillc.com/sigs/

Ken Sletten
SIGIMAGE Chair