PROCESSING WEEKLY REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 10 MARCH 1981

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00933R000400180020-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 2003
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: March 11, 1981
• Content Type: MF

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11 March 1981
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Data Processing
ATTENTION: Executive Officer
Deputy Director for Processing
SUBJECT: Processing Weekly Report for Week Ending
10 March 1981
1. Systems Availability: Attached is the Systems
Availability Report.
2. The 0 data base was established on DDOGIMS this
past weekend. This data base is for DDO/IMS and will be used for
creating and editing transactions for input to the NIPS system.
3. The CCCC data base for the 4C project is scheduled to
be implemented on GIMPRODUCTION the end of March.
4. PCB met with OSWR representatives to discuss three
applications for which PCB will assume production responsibility.
A Memorandum of Understanding was presented to OSWR. If the memo
is agreed to, we will begin production processing by the end of
March.
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the problems that caused the loss of 800 cables in Feb
6. On Friday, 6 March the entire Data Conversion Branch met in
Rosslyn for an informal branch meeting. This was the first time that
this had ever been done and was the result of a suggestion made at
the PD conference this past February. The meeting was held so as
not to drastically affect production processing. The results were
very positive and this type of meeting will be held quarterly.
7. On Saturday, 7 March, a power outage at 12:40 caused the
Four Phase System to hang when power was restored. It was decided
to let the system sit until Monday morning, when the system manager
could check for any lost data or damage. A check on Monday revealed
no problems and the system was operational by 8:30.
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8. Software testing of VM for the multiprocessor environment
began on 9 March. Running of regular customers on the 3033MP is
targeted to start on Friday evening, 2Q' March.
9. DDO personnel have completed partial maintenance on the
STAR Database. Approximately 10 hours of processing time remains to
complete the job.
10. TRW will be testing/converting the TADS software from
CMS 360 to CMS 370 from 9 through 17 March. Per the request of the
TADS Project Leader, increase system access will be needed during
the week and on weekends.
11. The IBM 6670 has suffered multiple outages this week due
to continuous paper jams. Major repairs by IBM appears to have
corrected the jamming problem.
12. Xerox 9700 customers have been experiencing problems with
poor quality output. Xerox maintenance personnel have replaced
the Photo Receptor on two occasions.
13. On Saturday, 7 March, HEB/OL conducted a test on the
automatic start capability of the two new 2500KW diesel generators.
Only one of the DG's would come online during the test. HEB and
Ernest Electric Company will continue to work on the problems.
14. On Tuesday, 10 March, at 1640, a module on the 400 Hz
Teledyne UPS went offline. When this occurred, it caused a transient
on the feeder lines to Ruffing Center, resulting in loss of power
to 168s (1, 2 and 3), 3033-1, V6 and V8. HEB reset the UPS and
power was restored by 1700. All modules are currently online.
15. IBM completed the installation and turned over to the
Agency the 3033MP system on Monday, 9 March. The system is now
undergoing the initial hardware/software test.
16. VM. Some progress has been made in locating the system
overhead problem, but heavy user loads this past week resulted in
degraded response. Note: On Friday, 6 March, 352 users were
logged on, a new all-time high.
17. A fix was installed on Comtens 5, 4, and 1 to eliminate
an abend when the CNS line flushes.
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18. The Ruffing Center availability was very good for the
week until Monday, when a series of Telex disk drive, controller
problems and procedural errors caused a loss of JES and the batch
system for much of the day. Thursday, VM lost 3 hours due to CalComp
disk drive failures, forcing the disconnect of the CP3 bank of drives,
a cold start, and rebuilding of spool files. On Friday morning,
TADS was out of service for nearly 4 hours due to a power supply
failure in the IBM 158 and the batch system was down for 75 minutes
due to two power supply problems, one in JES local and another, later,
in the JES global. Saturday, two failures in the JES global, one
on a paging pack, the other not yet diagnosed, caused a loss of 98
minutes to JES and batch. A failure of 400 Hz power from the
uninterruptable power supply caused a loss of 6 mainframes on
Tuesday in prime time, which teak up to 75 minutes for full recovery.
19. The Special Center had a good week for applications,
although there were numerous hardware and procedural problems. TP
STAR lost 108 minutes Wednesday due to Telex disk drive controller
problems. On Thursday, the online applications lost about 30 minutes
when the IBM 158B computer hung. Saturday, GIMPROD lost 51 minutes
due to a Telex drive problem and TP STAR was unavailable for 2 hours
and 18 minutes due to a Telex Disk controller problem
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UNCLASSIFIED
DDA/ODP
SYSTEMS AVAILABILITY SUMMARY
MONDAY 02 MAR 1981 THRU SUNDAY 08 MAR 1981
SYSTEM
CURRENT WEEK
02 MAR - 08 MAR
PREVIOUS 90 DAYS
01 DEC - 01 MAR
DIFFERENCE
BATCH
97.53
96.75
+ .78
INTERACTIVE
94.46
98.09
- 3.63
GIMS
99.77
95.28
+ 4.49
CAMS
95.74
98.79
- 3.05
OCR-COLTS
96.87
93.87
+ 3.00
OCR-RECON
93.20
88.83
+ 4.37
DDO-STAR
94.44
96.19
- 1.75
OSWR-TADS
92.34
97.84
- 5.50
INTERACTIVE, CAMS, OCR-RECON, DDO-STAR, and OSWR-TADS
all reported a below average week with each application recording
outages due to hardware, software, procedural, and unresolved
errors.
- INTERACTIVE (VM) had a 2 hour and 30 minute CALCOMP hardware
outage.
- CAMS experienced 4 hours and 9 minutes of outages due to
software problems, 1 hour and 55 minutes of hardware outages,
and 46 minutes of procedural errors.
- OCR-RECON had 1 hour and 47 minutes of procedural outages,
1 hour and 21 minutes of hardware problems, and 16 minutes
of software errors.
- DDO-STAR experienced 3 hours and 30 minutes of telex hardware
outages, a 48 minute procedural error, and a 24 minute
unresolved looping problem.
- OSWR-TADS had 4 hours and 13 minutes of hardware outages.
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