PROCESSING WEEKLY REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 21 APRIL 1981

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00933R000400190052-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 52
• Publication Date: April 22, 1981
• Content Type: MF

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22 April 1981
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Data Processing
ATTENTION:
STAT FROM:
STAT
Deputy Director for Processing
SUBJECT: Processing Weekly Report for Week
Ending 21 April 1981
1. Systems Availability: Attached is the Systems Avail-
ability Report.
They plan to use GIMS as part of
a -technology demonstration involving the Arpanet.
base was retired from the GIMPRODUCTION system on 17 April.
3. As requested by the Chief of C/Division, the DCI data
4. Data Base Control Center is participating in a 72 hour
load test for the new Message Processing System. This test will
STAT run from 21-24 April.
5. All the changes necessary for the new FEGLI processing
were put into production. MASTERFILE ran successfully with only
STAT two minor problems.
6. The new PERSEAS interface to PERSIGN ran successfully
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and was accepted into production.
7. We accepted into production two OSWR applications. One
of the applications is the monitoring of the OSWR cable traffic.
This is the first customer for whom we will be responsible for
their entire cable process, from AMPS to their data base. The second
application is a reporting facility for an overhead collection data
base. A third application is expected to be turned over to use in
the near future.
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8. All the necessary data needed for the PCB study on
paper consumption has been collected and is being loaded into a
database. We will begin examining the data as soon as the loading
process is complete.
9. Last week the VM service was supported on the new processor
(3033 MP) all week. Trivial and minor command response times were
0.19 and 4.39 seconds, respectively. The Expansion Factor for major
commands was 15.87. All of these metrics are within the performance
goals of the VM service.
history tape drive will be provided via a second channel.
GIMDEV waits. To alleviate this problem, access to the GIMDEV
10. During the past several weeks, there have been periodic
occurrences of slow response on the GIMDEV system. The source
of this problem is an over-utilized history tape channel causing
11. The Ruffing Center had a comparatively good week for
applications. VM, availability appears to be increasing to a normal
level as the SP and MP problems abate. On Wednesday a Telex controller
failed, which halted JES for 15 minutes, all OCR applications for an
hour, and the batch system for 75 minutes. VM was down 125 minutes
Thursday due first to a unsuccessful attempt to restore a disk pack,
and later to leaving that pack improperly allocated. On Friday
OLTA was out for 4 hours due to OLTA monopolizing a CPU, and later
attempts by SPD to fix the problem. GIMPROD lost 109 minutes Friday
due first to an SPD software problem, and later because its computer
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to this systems planned move to the Special Center in May.
12. The Special Center had a very good week through Monday
with only a few minor outages to CAMPROD, STAR, and NIPS. On
Tuesday DDOGIMS and NIPS were down for nearly 4 hours. The problem
began when a COMTEN failed, followed by a procedural error in
switching to a backup COMTEN, followed by a hang of the JES Global
computer due to a TBAR failure.
13. A four megabyte memory upgrade to Amdahl 470/V6 is
scheduled for Tuesday, 28 April. The upgrade is required prior
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UNCLASSIFIED
DDA/ODP
SYSTEMS AVAILABILITY SUMMARY
MONDAY 13 APR 1981 THRU SUNDAY 19 APR 1981
SYSTEM
CURRENT WEEK
13 APR - 19 APR
PREVIOUS 90 DAYS
12 JAN - 12 APR
DIFFERENCE
BATCH
99.26
96.16
+ 3.10
INTERACTIVE
96.76
95.43
+ 1.33
GIMS
96.00
95.07
+ .93
CAMS
99.45
98.05
+ 1.40
OCR-COLTS
94.84
93.89
+ .95
OCR-RECON
93.74
91.11
+ 2.63
DDO-STAR
98.13
94.85
+ 3.28
OSWR-TADS
99.94
97.35
+ 2.59
OCR-COLTS and OCR-RECON both experienced below the goal of
96 percent for the week with each application recording outages
due to hardware, software, and procedural errors.
- OCR-COLTS had 2 hours and 30 minutes of TELEX hardware
outages and a 5 minute software problem.
- OCR-RECON experienced a 1 hour and 39 minute procedural
problem, a 1 hour TELEX hardware outage, and 29 minutes of
software errors.
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