PROCESSING WEEKLY REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 4 AUGUST 1981

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00933R000400200039-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 13, 2003
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: August 5, 1981
• Content Type: MF

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5 August 1981
MEMORANDUM FOR: Acting Director of Data Processing
ATTENTION: Executive Officer
STAT FROM:
Deputy Director for Processing
SUBJECT: Processing Weekly Report for
Week Ending 4 August 1981
STAT
STAT
1. Systems Availability: Attached is the Systems
Availability Report.
had an unusually large number of problems this week.
2. Applications availability in the Ruffing Center was
average this week. TADS was out for 1.3 hours Wednesday because
of CDC disk drive and controller failures. On Friday, a hardware
error in the Multiprocessor halted VM for 68 minutes. The Versatec
plotter, the 6670 and 9700 laser printers and the line printers
3. The Special Center had an average week. A printer hung
an I/O channel on Thursday, which cost TPSTAR 1.8 hours and TPNIPS
50 minutes. Monday CAMS lost 3.8 hours due to CAMS software,
Telex disk errors, and Amdahl power supply failure, and teleprocess-
4. Release 1 of the VM ETECS support has been delivered
to P&PD and is now being used for a majority of the ETECS jobs.
This software permits files to be transported automatically from
VM to the P&PD document composition system. It represents the
culmination of over four years of efforts to create an automated
link. An enhanced version of the software is currently being
5. The search continued for the four missing cables mentioned
in last week's report. We were able to track down other addresses
on the cables and determine that they had not received their copies.
The customer, OPA, has had their hardcopy version from Cable Secre-
tariat turned off for sometime. Due to this, their analyst did not
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STAT
STAT
invited to all future GAS monthend meetings.
6. Applications is looking into a means of verifying
cable traffic through the t ystems. As of now no progress
has been reported.
7. The monthly GAS meeting was held Wednesday. A
special fiscal year-end schedule was presented by OF and accepted.
OF also questioned Xerox procedures, now that Reports Printing
and Distribution area part of OD. A representative from OD will
be
8. Due to several power outages and power surges, it was
necessary for IV Phase customer engineers to realign and replace
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some disk, d
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re scheduled for implementation on 30 August.
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y e ME data and a general survey of the user community. The
response problem area cannot be immediately ide but is
currently under review by PD/DBMB and SPD.
11. The new CAMS passwords and receipt forms were delivered
to CMB/PTO and A Division for distribution on 3 August. The new
passwords
STAT
9. Three additional disk drives and a controller will be
added to the GIMPRODUCTION system within 2 weeks. These drives
will be used to redistribute some of the high activity data bases
and to accommodate for projected new data bases. STAT
10. Over the past several weeks the response time on
GIMPRODUCTION has been noticeably degraded. This has been confirmed
b +_ in GI M
12. Testing continues on the IBM 360/20 conversion effort
to the IBM 3505/3525 reader/punch. Some del been experienced
due to both hardware and software problems.
The newly installed 1000 line per minu VM
STAT was thoroughly tested from 26-31 July.
STAT
required to respond to service calls daily.
14. The lI Facility experienced severe problems with Hetra
Printers the en ire week. Hetra service representatives were
Att: a/s
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UNCLASSIFIED
DDA/ODP
SYSTEMS AVAILABILITY SUMMARY
MONDAY 27 JUL 1981 THRU SUNDAY 02 AUG 1981
SYSTEM
CURRENT WEEK
27 JUL - 02 AUG
PREVIOUS 90 DAYS
26 APR - 26 JUL
DIFFERENCE
BATCH
95.86
97.37
- 1.51
INTERACTIVE
94.85
96.95
- 2.10
GIMS
93.94
97.36
- 3.42
CAMS
99.23
97.52
+ 1.71
OCR-COLTS
93.30
95.22
- 1.92
OCR-RECON
87.20
96.07
- 8.87
DDO-STAR
97.82
96.69
+ 1.13
OSWR?-TADS
94.61
97.97
- 3.36
BATCH, INTERACTIVE, GIMS, OCR-COLTS, OCR-RECON,
and OSWR-TADS all reported below the goal of 96 percent
for the week with each application recording outages due
to hardware, software, procedural (telephone company pulling
cables), and UPS power problems.
- BATCH experienced 5 hours and 15 minutes of outages due to
UPS power failures, 1 hour and 8 minutes of hardware problems,
and a 35 minute procedural problem.
- INTERACTIVE (VM) had 1 hour and 48 minutes of hardware
problems and 1 hour and 2 minutes of outages due to UPS power
failures.
- GIMS experienced a 1 hour and 59 minute procedural problem
and a 1 hour and 3 minute outage due to a UPS power failure.
- OCR-COLTS had 1 hour and 56 minutes of procedural problems,
a 40 minute outage due to a UPS power failure, 35 minutes of
hardware problems, and a 5 minute software error.
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- OCR-RECON experienced 1 hour and 15 minutes of hardware
problems, a 1 hour software error, a 40 minute outage due to
a UPS power failure, and 3 hours and 29 minutes of
procedural problems, including 1 hour and 33 minutes of OCR
data set problems.
- OSWR-TADS had 2 hours and 46 minutes of hardware problems
(CDC) and a 12 minute outage due to a UPS power failure.
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