PROCESSING WEEKLY REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 22 SEPTEMBER 1981

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00933R000400200009-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 13, 2003
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: September 23, 1981
• Content Type: MF

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23 September 1981
MEMORANDUM FOR: Acting Director of Data Processing
STAT FROM :
Deputy Director for Processing
SUBJECT: Processing Weekly Report for
Week Ending 22 September 1981
1. Systems Availability: Attached is the Systems
Availability Report.
2. The Hetra multi-leaving Mark V 1000 line per minute
STAT units have arrived and are being tested. The
Building Comten was down from 15:32 Monday, 21 September o
Tuesday, 22 September, due to a failure of the air handler
STAT Wednesday, Comten 4 and 5 will be changed back to 2400
au Far- from 4800 baud. Comten 2 remains to be done. This
is being done to allow for backup scheme in the event a Comten
goes down until problems are resolved with running at 4800
STAT baud.
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3. The had an excellent week for production.
The most significant outage occurred at midafternoon, Friday,
when GIMPROD lost 35 minutes due to faulty MVS software. JES
and OCR had no lost time this week. PMOMAIL lost 12 minutes. All
major applications in the Special Center lost more than an hour
each this week. Wednesday evening, CAMS lost 80 minutes because
of bad data on a paging data set. The cause of the problem has not
been resolved. An hour was lost by CAMS on Sunday due to a bad
fan in Amdahl equipment. A Telex Disk drive failure on Monday
cost DDOGIMS 63 minutes; TPSTAR 48 minutes; and TPNIPS 24 minutes.
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the need for everyone to save old Tech Notes.
4. Tech notes are now accessible on the VM system for
all users. A Tech Note will be published this week telling users
how to access them. This will help speed up the information ex-
change and eliminate some of the paper we now produce and also
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5. Work continues on installing a PANVALET Library in
the Special Center. We have created a library, established CMS
access and moved our procedures into the Special Center. We still
have to build the user VM disk, run full system checkout, and brief
6. Applications is investigating 28 cables which were
delivered in hard August but which do not appear in
STAT any MPS logs.
7. Thirty day acceptance testing for the newly installed
Microdata Reality 8000 System ended on Monday, 14 September.
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8. The IBM 6670 VM Laser Prj-n~er e operational in the
ORD Computer Facility on Thursday.
9. Wednesday, 23 September, is the scheduled date for ED/TP
to install and test switch mechanism on the CAMS (VM backup)
Hetra printer in the Computer Facility. This will allow the
CAMS printer to be used as a backup device for the VM printer.
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en a_ive date for a secure building is 9 October.
, 16, 11 an 18 October have been set for the OSA/NFAC relocati
OD&E/DDS&T have tentative dates of 23 October through 1 November.
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15 10. The working group reports that tentative dates of
11. Final acceptance inspection of the new SAFE Computer
Center for Phase I construction is scheduled for Monday,28
Sept ember
12. The first delivery of Burroughs equipment to support
the SAFE Project is expected on Tuesday, 29 September.
13. The Versatec Plotter was out of service d
ue to hardware
iDroblp-ms, J rom Tuesday, 15 September through Tuesday, 22 September.
14. Operations personnel visited the IBM Center in Gaithersburg
on Thursday, 17 September, to gather information and view their newly
STAT installed 3081 Processor.
15. Considerable progress has been made towards restoring the
Special Center tape library to normal. As a result of the water
leak on Wednesday, 16 September, the reported number of suspect
damaged tapes is presently 900. All users have been notified and
procedures are in place for handling the damaged tapes. Approximately
40% of the suspect 900 ta
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are permanent retention tapes that
have been in the library and not used for one or two years. Tn rla+-o
we have not had
a request to use one of the damaged tapes.
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UNCLASSIFIED
DDA/ODP
SYSTEMS AVAILABILITY SUMMARY
MONDAY 14 SEP 1981 THRU SUNDAY 20 SEP 1981
SYSTEM
CURRENT WEEK
14 SEP - 20 SEP
PREVIOUS 90 DAYS
13 JUN - 13 SEP
DIFFERENCE
BATCH
100.00
97.72
+ 3.28
INTERACTIVE
99.74
98.13
+ 1.61
GIMS
97.67
97.29
+ .38
CAMS
98.11
96.44
+ 1.67
OCR-COLTS
98.50
95.61
+ 2.89
OCR-RECON
100.00
94.87
+ 5.13
DDO-STAR
98.18
97.23
+ .95
OSWR-TADS
99.55
98.01
+ 1.54
ALL systems reported above the goal of 96 percent for
the week.
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