PROCESSING WEEKLY REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 17 MARCH 1981

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00933R000400180015-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 2003
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: March 18, 1981
• Content Type: MF

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18 March 1981
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Data Processing
Deputy Director for Processing
SUBJECT: Processing Weekly Report for
Week Ending 17 March 1981
1. Systems Availability: Attached is the Systems
Availability Report.
2. PCB and OSWR reached an agreement on our assuming
production responsibility for several OSWR developed applications.
An OSWR representative and the CLS Administrator are working on
the procedures for moving the programs to a Production Librar .
When this is complete our processing will begin. 25X1
3. On Friday, 13 March, a meeting was held with 25X1
from OF concerning the elimination of the courier service that DCB
provides. It was decided to let the regular Agency courier service
transport any material that had to be sent to Key Building, but with
special handling instructions. 25X1
4. Version 10 of TROLL was installed on VMPROD on Thursday,
12 March. OER has been notified for additional acceptance testing.
5. The modifications to the TADS system for running in a
CMS/SP environment have been completed. The enhanced TADS software
was put into production on Monday, 16 March. 25X1
6. The initial hardware/software testing and operator training
for the IBM MP System is continuing. Phase I testing is now scheduled
for Monday, 23 March.
7. Phase I of Project SAFE Pilot Mail Operation (PMO) was
completed on 16 March. Ten Delta Data 7260 terminals were delivered
and installed for OSWR in support of PMO.
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8. The Ruffing Center had some bad days
in the
past
week.
On Wednesday, Recon was down for 90 minutes due
to a
data
set not
having been cataloged. All OCR applicatons and
Batch
were
down
about two hours, Thursday, due to problems with
Telex
disk
controller.
The controller problem also interrupted GIMS for 27 minutes. Left
in service, the controller hung the next day and was finally taken
offline for repair. Another Telex controller failed on Friday,
causing OCR a further 45 minute outage. Multiple hardware and
software problems caused repeated VM failures and degraded service
on Monday. The Versatec plotter failed on Friday, and after Monday's
repair, produced poor quality output.
9. The Special Center had some problems, but a good week
on the average. DDO applications lost about 30 minutes each on
Wednesday due to a bad card in a Telex disk drive. CAMS lost 47
minutes Sunday, when CAMPROD terminated due to an application problem.
DDO had several outages on Monday, the most serious when NIPS lost an
hour due to a hung IBM 158B. 25X1
10. TRW completed conversion of the TADS software from
CMS360 to the IBM 3033 MP.
11. On 21 March, CEMB will cable the M 3033 MP into a
production VM configuration. The IBM 3033 will no longer have
access to VM devices after this change. The 3033 MP will support
the production VM system, while the Amdahl 470/V8 will remain idle
for immediate VM backup.
12. Operator training and procedure development for IBM 3033 MP
support as the Production VM system will continue.
'.13. The tape problems reported in the Special Center in previous
weekly reports appear to have subsided. The increased efforts and
awareness of IBM, MMB/ED and OD have played a major role in reducing
the problems.
14. Operations Division's involvement with the SAFE Project
has begun with the newly appointed Chief of the SAFE
Computer Center attending briefings provided by the Burroughs
Corporation, Burroughs is the major supplier of hardware and software
for the SAFE Project.
25X1
Att: a/s
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UNCLASSIFIED
DDA/ODP
SYSTEMS AVAILABILITY SUMMARY
MONDAY 09 MAR 1981 THRU SUNDAY 15 MAR 1981
SYSTEM
CURRENT WEEK
09 MAR - 15 MAR
PREVIOUS 90 DAYS
08 DEC - 08 MAR
DIFFERENCE
BATCH
96.63
96.57
+ .06
INTERACTIVE
94.64
97.76
- 3.12
GIMS
96.44
95.32
+ 1.12
CAMS
99.07
98.51
+ .56
OCR-COLTS
92.57
94.00
- 1.43
OCR-RECON
87.50
88.25
- .75
DDO-STAR
98.94
96.53
+ 2.41
OSWR-TADS
100.00
97.34
+ 2.66
INTERACTIVE, OCR-COLTS, and OCR-RECON all reported below
the goal of 96 percent for the week with each application recording
outages due to hardware, software, and procedural errors.
- INTERACTIVE (VM) experienced 1 hour and 38 minutes of
procedural errors, 41 minutes of software problems, and
38 minutes of hardware outages.
- OCR-COLTS had 3 hours and 23 minutes of hardware problems
and a 20 minute procedural outage due to a UPS power loss.
- OCR-RECON experienced 4 hours and 25 minutes of hardware
problems, a 1 hour and 30 minute software error, and a
20 minute procedural outage due to a UPS power loss.
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