INFORMATION AND MANAGEMENT SUPPORT STAFF WEEKLY REPORT FOR PERIOD ENDING 19 JANUARY 1988

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00078R000100010037-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 13, 2013
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: January 19, 1988
• Content Type: MISC

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INFORMATION AND MANAGEMENT SUPPORT STAFF
WEEKLY REPORT FOR PERIOD ENDING 19 JANUARY 1988
1. Progress Report on Tasks Assigned by the DCl/DDCI:
2. Items or Events of Major Interest that have Occurred During
the Preceding Week:
A. TECHNICAL GROUP
Federal Automated Requisition System (FARS).
demonstrated the log-on procedure in VM to
he Interdepartmental Support Branch
(IDSB/SD/OL). She also completed changes to the parameter
files for Integrated Database Management System/Relational
(IDMS/R) FARS. All errors have been corrected and the files
are ready for use with other programs in IDMS/R FARS. Also
completed were the menu changes that were requested by
(FARS DBM). As a result of the changes there
are five new menus that have replaced one menu for working
with suspense requisitions. There now is a separate menu
for adding, modifying, deleting, querying, and cancelling
requisitions. In addition she wrote process code to remove
data from the FARSUSP file for Integrated Database
Management System/Relational (IDMS/R) FARS.
discovered that there was data in the file wnen testing a
CULPRIT report. also wrote process code to add,
modify, delete and query data in the FARSUSP file. The new
process code will require testing; so has asked
IDSB/SD to input sample data
to test various programs.
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attended the FARS Engineering Review
Board (ERB) meeting, where the discussion centered around
the progress made on the conversion of FARS from the Data
General (DG) to Integrated Database Management System/
Relational (IDMS/R). The ERB also discussed concerns on the
3812 printer, the relocation of VM terminals and phone lines
for the new system. The next FARS ERE meeting will be held
on Tuesday, 16 February 1988, from 1000 until 1200 in room
Building.
(3) (IDSB/SD/OL) has arranged a meeting with
Department of the Army representatives to discuss their data
processing procedures in relation to the FARS system
interface. The meeting is scheduled for 21 January 1988.
TG/IMSS will be in attendance.
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(4)
conversion.
has requested a briefing for
(C/SD/OL) on the status of the FARS
The briefing is scheduled for 19 January.
""(-5-)----FtrIXT-CWIYarer-Syst'artrtFCS`rt. On 14 January,
received control of all General Electric
Company's (GE) documentation, notes, and software code that
dealt with the Logistics Automated Data System (LADS III)
conversion. This action cormallitx_a_c_t_--
with the Office of Logistics
(6) informed TG/IMSS/OL that a TK50 tape
cartridge had become lodged in the Micro VAX II tape drive
during system backup. Office of Communication technicians
were able to remove the tape drive to be Tech-Rec'ed back to
Headquarters to remove the tape cartridge and repair the
drive. A new tape drive will be sent back to
is still running, but does not have backup/restore
capabilities.
(7)
Logistics Overtime Tracking System (LOTS).
completed rewriting the LOTS NOMAD system. This
procedure and
significantly
included major modifications to the menu and
one minor SCHEMA correction. The new system
enhances the presently-used OVERTIME s ste
submitted her new system to
successfully with one minor
completion of a user manual
production.
who tested 1.L
suggestion, and with the
it should be ready to go to
(8) Inventory Control System (ICS).
responded to a request by the Data Base Manager of ICS to
examine the impact in providing "read only" access to the
ICS dictionaries for an organization which has read-only
access for many ICS files, but not dictionaries. Meeting
the request would involve changing the GIMS security for all
the data dictionaries, which would entail about one week of
changes, testing and implementation on ICS production.
(9) Contract Team Local Area Network (CTLAN). A
representative attended the CTLAN working group meeting.
The meeting, chaired by (PMS/OL), addressed
the duties and responsibilities of the contract teams. By
understanding their current situation, the group can look
for ways to increase their productivity through automation.
The group also began defining what actions would take place
on the CTLAN and which would take place in CLAS.
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(10) Logistics Employee Training and Tracking System
(LETTS). A file has been created that lists employees in OL
by social security number and the number of courses they
have taken, in addition to the extracts from the PRIM and
PYRAMID databases. The extracts will be used to create
individualized personnel history statements for OL employees.
(11) In response to a memo received from Operations
Support Branch, Supply Division (OSB/SD/OL), portions of the
User's Manual for the Wang/CRAFT Accountable Property System
(APS) are being revised by a TG Programmer Trainee. Upon
completion of these revisions, the manual will be sent
forward for final review and approval. A representative of
the Audit Staff, who has been involved in the development of
APS, advises that an approval memo has been prepared by his
office and is in the process of being signed by the
appropriate Audit Staff officials.
B. PLANNING
IMSS is working with Budget and Fiscal Branch (B&FB) to
revise the written justification for the OL Base Program.
C. CLAS
(1) Meeting with Cullinet: Representatives of the
CLAS/BARS Project met with Cullinet at their office on
Wednesday to discuss the trip to Boston for the three Office
Directors. We conveyed to Cullinet our concerns regarding
Cullinet's delivery schedules of software that affect our
project implementation schedules and asked them to propose a
scenario for an IOC on 1 October that they can guarantee
with respect to software availability, contractual support
for interfaces and on-site support. An agenda is set as
well an objectives paper that will be given to the Office
Directors.
(2) The CLAS Supply Team has successfully completed
two additional prototype test packets
Both tests were considered satisfactory
and the details of how to format and print this information
is being investigated.
(3) The data base error #3026, which self-corrected on
the first test packet has resurfaced. The error is
appearing in the receiving function in an erratic manner
which increases the difficulty to pin point the problem
area. The CLAS technical staff is continuing their rese rch
in coordination with Cullinet representatives.
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WEEKLY REPORT FOR PERIOD ENDING 19 JANUARY 1988
. REGULATIONS
(1) The following OL regulation was signed and
published:
Small Purchases Branch
(2) The following Agency regulations were originated
by OL and submitted to the Regulatory Policy Division, DA:
Change in Electric Typewriter Repair Contract
New Agency Shuttle Service
(3) The following Agency regulations originating
outside OL were coordinated within OL and concurred in:
Waiver of Claims for Erroneous Payment
3. Significant Events Anticipated During the Coming Week
4. Perspective of Staff Activities
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