PROCESSING WEEKLY REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 17 FEBRUARY 1981

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00933R000400180035-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 2003
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: February 18, 1981
• Content Type: MF

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18 February 1981
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Data Processing
ATTENTION:
FROM:
Deputy Director for Processing
SUBJECT: Processing Weekly Report for
Week Ending 17 February 1981
1. Systems Availability: Attached is the Systems
Availability Report.
2. The new release of the VM operating system software
(VM/SP) was installed 8 February. High user activity levels
and performance problems with the new VM software resulted in
degraded response all week. Problems with the new software also
resulted in 1:40 of downtime for the week (availability = 96.97%).
The source of the additional overhead required by the new operating
system is being investigated. (Note: New all time user level on
10 February was 327 users.)
3. The GIMPROD service was available for only 90% of its
scheduled"up" time during this week. The primary causes of down-
time were GIMS software problems and an Amdahl processor failure.
4. The Ruffing Center had a moderate week. On Wednesday,
the batch system lost 20 mintues due to software-related problems,
and on Thursday 161 minutes due to a bad paging pack and JES pro-
blems induced by applications software. JES was down 131 minutes
due to V6 hardware problems and paging difficulties; GIMDEV and
the batch system lost a somewhat lesser amount. OCR also lost 106
minutes on Friday due to hardware problems. Acceptance testing
for the new Telex drives (subsystem 14) was completed during the
week.
5. The Special Center had a good week. On Wednesday there
were Comten failures and also a loss of communications with all
tape drives due to a bad card in one of the drives. This and some
other difficulties caused a loss of DDOGIMS for 192 minutes, TPNIPS
for 175 minutes, and TPSTAR for 105 minutes. CAMPROD had very little
di:Eficulty,and a perfect week since Thursday.
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6. New sysgens have been installed on Comten 6 in the
Special Center and on Comtens 4 and 5 in the Ruffing Center. The
sysgens incorporate fixes to allow the Delta Data 7260 to use
CAM and full screen edit. Also included are additional switching
characters for DDO and VM.
7. The installation of the raised flooring for the 1D16
expansion area was completed during the 13-16 February weekend.
Progress continues on the installation of the 60Hz and 415Hz
power panels for the area.
8. TBAR and ED personnel upgraded the TEAR II matrice in
the Ruffing Center from a 4x8 to 8x8 matrice. This is in antici-
pation of the expanded number of byte channels available with the
new VM processor.
9. A 3350 Disk Pack was allocated to OCR to meet partial
allocation of the Pilot Mail DASD Requirement for FY-81.
10. The CMS component of VM/SP was installed on the general
timesharing and TADS systems. This completes the migration from
VM/370 to the VM/SP operating system as the base for our interactive
services.
11. CPR Cleaning Systems, a professional cleaning service
under contract to the Agency, gave the GC-03 Computer Center a
thorough cleaning on Saturday, 14 February.
12. Two megabytes of Cambridge Memory will be installed on
the 370/168-2 on 21 February. The system will be unavailable for
approximately 40 hours.
13. A 20 hour chilled water outage is scheduled for 21
February. This outage is scheduled to allow connection of the new
SAFE Computer Center to the power plant. Both the Ruffing and
Special Centers will be supported on the backup chiller system.
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UNCLASSIFIED
DDA/ODP
SYSTEMS AVAILABILITY SUMMARY
MONDAY 09 FEB 1981 THRU SUNDAY 15 FEB 1981
SYSTEM
CURRENT WEEK
09 FEB - 15 FEB
PREVIOUS 90 DAYS
10 NOV - 08 FEB
DIFFERENCE
BATCH
96.06
97.57
- 1.51
INTERACTIVE
96.97
98.26
- 1.29
GIMS
90.30
96.78
- 6.48
CAMS
99.74
98.89
+ .85
OCR-COLTS
95.30
95.05
+ .25
OCR-RECON
95.44
90.18
+ 5.26
DDO-STAR
97.83
97.23
+ .60
OSWR-TADS
98.49
96.92
+ 1.57
GIMS, OCR-COLTS, and OCR-RECON all reported a below
av.arage week with each application recording outages due to
hardware, software, and unresolved errors.
- GIMS experienced 3 hours and 3 minutes of software problems
and 1 hour and 48 minutes of hardware outages.
- OCR--COLTS had 1 hour and 46 minutes of hardware errors
and 35 minutes of unresolved I/O problems.
- OCR.-RECON had 1 hour and 46 minutes of hardware problems
and 31 minutes of software errors.
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