UNCTAD's Debt Management and Financial Analysis System (DMFAS

of DMFAS users. For any user or user group, the manager can determine the access rights that areappropriate and subsequently expand or restrict them according to its institution’s needs. For example, amanager can assign loans, bonds and grants exclusively to individual users or groups. In addition, a newfeature for password management has been introduced.D. Latest Oracle technology: Oracle 10GDMFAS 5.3 supports Oracle 9i and 10G, which is the latest RDBMS released by Oracle. Among the manyfeatures it offers are:• the ability to run a single database on a cluster of servers• new technology to reduce downtime thus allowing maintenance procedures on online databases• facilities to reduce disk fragmentation and improve applications performance• tools to define both e-mails and pager alerts for common database events•E. DMFAS HelpdeskThe DMFAS helpdesk offers extensive support in the use of DMFAS. The helpdesk provides timely andreliable advice and assistance on a wide range of functional and technical issues in response to any issueusers may have.V. Documentation and TrainingA comprehensive set of documentation is available for DMFAS 5.3. It includes:• A comprehensive User’s Guide, with its supplements and updates;• A basic tutorial “Introduction to DMFAS” and an advanced tutorial on how to register an AsianDevelopment Fund loan in DMFAS.• A Debt and DMFAS Glossary;• A Database Administrator’s Manual; and• An Installation Guide (for Oracle 8i, 9i and 10G).20