IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WANG TO AIM CAPABILITY

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• Publication Date: September 19, 1988
• Content Type: MEMO

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OIT-0899-88
EG-0028-88
1 9 SEP? ~gg~
[?1FP40RANDUM FOR; Acting Chief, Information Management Staff, DO
FROM: Edward J. Maloney
Director, Office of Information Technology
SUBJECT: Implementation of the Wang to AIM Capability .
REFERENCE: Memorandum for D/OIT from AC, IMS/D0, dtd 17 Aug 1988,
Same Subject
l.i The Office of Information Technology is developing a facility to
allow the interchange of electronic mail between Wang OFFICE systems and
AIM. This system is being developed as a response to a formal
requirement from the DS&T and will be operational in the General Services
Center. This project is called the Agency Document Distribution System
(ADDS). We will be happy to assist the DO to establish a similar system
to link its Wang VS computers with mainframes in the Special Computing
Center.
2. Before this implementation, however, there are critical
questions concerning mainframe processor capacity, data storage, and
security that need to be addressed. To help answer these questions, OIT
will assist the DO in setting up a test facility for exchanging
electronic mail between the IMS Wang VS-65 and the DO's AIM system in the
Special Center. OIT will nave this system available for mutual
evaluation by 1 Uct 88. This will be a test system only. It should be
limited to no more than four concurrent VS workstations at any one time..
Document transfer should be limited to no more than 100 documents between
the AIM and Wang system each day. These limitations are necessary to
reduce the risk of impacting your production environment. Before this
system can enter a production environment the DO will need to develop a
security plan for review by OS/ISG.
3. During the testing phase, IMS should be aware that a software
failure of the VTAM gateway induced by the load link interface, which
links the SC2 AIM system to the ADDS application on the MVS host, will
cause a lock-out of all VTAM users while the system restarts itself.
Such failures can be expected.
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SUBJECT: Implementation of the TAang to AIM Capability
4. We expect that the evaluation should run at least sixty days to
produce meaningful results. By 1 November, IMS should provide OIT/EG
with a proposed architecture of the final system. With this data and the
architectural plan, EG should be able to provide you-with costs and
capacity impacts within four weeks of the end of the evaluation period.
5. Some of the costs to be quantified by the evaluation include
additional communications., data storage, and data processing capacity.
Initially, the license fee for the Soft-Switch software will be a minimum
of $69,000 to support up to six Wang VS systems. This cost will
increase as your VS network expands. The DO should plan funding for FY89
and FY90 at a level of 15~ of the initial costs for Soft-Switch
maintenance. There will be costs for additional Wang software that will
depend on your configuration.
6. The project manager for ADDS is of OIT/EG who
can be reached on secure has already formed a project
team to implement the ADDS project in the Special Center. He will be
contacting you with a status r Wort on 15 Sept 88. We ask that you also
appoint a project manager as counterpart prior to
introduction o= the test program. I have appended a capabilities and
impacts statement as an appendix to assist your staff in the evaluation
of critical issues in more detail.
F^Edward J. Maloney
Attachments:
A. Reference
B. Appendix
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SUBJECT: Implementation of the Wang to AIM Capability
C/DCD/EG/OIT/~ (9 Sept.88)
Distribution:
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1 - D/OIT w/atts ~~
1 - C/DCD/EG w/atts
2 - OIT Registry w/atts
1 - EG Chrono w/atts
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STAT
1 7 AUG 1988
STAT
MEi~1ORFNDUM FOR: Director, Office of Information Technology
cting ie n ormation Management .Staff,
DO
SUBJECT: Implementation of the Wang to P.IM Capability
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1. I'am requesting your immediate support in implementing
the interface, developed by your staff, to connect the Wang
mail system and AIM. The demise of the tube system is going
to place an insurmountable amount of work on the DO to move
cables and memos for coordination and information purposes.
While there has been considerable discussion about the loss of
the tube system, the rest ~of the DO has yet to fully realize
its impact. We have been studying the problem and looking for
options to reduce the impact. It was determined that within
the DO, approximately 750 of the material sent via the tubes
is cables for internal coordination and requests for IMS
services. With the entire DO now creating their cables with
Wang systems or AIM and the severe resource limitations with
which we are faced, the implementation of the connection
between the Wang systems and AIM is the best thing that can be
done immediately. This would allow us to take advantage of
the existing equipment and pass correspondence electrically to
the extent possible. There have been several conversations
between our staffs, and this will formalize our request to
install this capability first for IMS and then subsequently
for the entire D0.
2. We have identified the mone needed for the Softswitch
STAT software and are wor:~ing with to order it. We
have all of the Wang components and are in the process of
preparing that side are. However, it was brought
STAT to our attention by that there are a few things
that need to be done to prepare the IBM systems in the SCC and
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that -tee couldn't use our existing communications line between
our Giang system and the SCC, as it needs to be moved from VM
%o MVS. We urgently need your support to accompZ~sh this so
that ~f~e can develop and demonstrate an electronic coordination
procedure for the DO. ~rlith 26 August being the termination
date of the tubes, our desire was to accomplish this
connection by the end of August. we need to develop software
and procedures prior tc October, so that we can offer an
alternative to the DO when FY-89 money becomes available. The
remainder of the DO~would be connected as quickly as we can
purchase and install the required Gdang VS systems. This would
also require additional communications lines between the Wangs
ar~d the SCC. Our staffs can jointly develop an implementation
plan and schedule for the remainder of the Directorate.
3. The DO is highly dependent upon the tube system and is
just now starting to react to the fact that we will no longer
have it. We are going to be inundated with cries for help on
the 29th of August. I very much need your help in
accomplishing this effort so that we can begin to answer the
STAT pleas. The IMS focal point for this effort is
STAT and he can be reached o
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Capabilities and Impacts Statement
for ?
DO/IMS Wang Soft-Switch Implementation
1. ADDS will provide several capabilities to OIT customers. DO/IMS
is developing a system to provide proper coordination on cables which may
originate on either Wang systems or AIM. As a result of the coordination
process, hard copy will be produced for release. Additionally, DO
intends to transfer internal mail between these systems.
2. ADDS provides an electronic mail connection between Wang OFFICE
and AIM. In this type of connection, Wang customers do not need to learn
AIM or to log on to AIM to send mail to AIM. This is an easy type of
connection for the customer to use and understand since he does not have
to be able to log onto different systems or even change environments
within the same system (such as setting up a telecommunications
session). This is one of the essential features of the OIT ADDS
project. Interactive logon to mainframe systems is not provided.
Itl should be noted that the DO would be the first operational
customer for ADDS. IMS intends to set up a demonstration system as soon
as possible and if this is successful, IMS will implement this connection
for some larger number of systems. The purpose of this test system is to
provide a meaningful evaluation of ADD S. in a customer environment.
3. The following resources are necessary for your test
implementation.
a. The Soft-Switch central must be licensed to run on an MVS
processor. This software will provide the function to translate and
route electronic mail between AIM and the Wang VS systems. This
will require an initial license fee of $34,560 for the Soft-Switch
SNADS gateway (to connect to AIM). In general for any Soft-Switch
product licensed, it is necessary to budget 15$ of the original cost
for license renewals in follow on years, so that the DO should
budget for these additional funds being available in FY 89 and 90.
The Soft-Switch translation is a CPU intensive process and this will
place an additional load on the MVS system. OI'1 has just begun a
performance evaluation effort on Soft-Switch and at this time cannot
predict the impact of running this software. However, given the
recent. impact of MPS and MDS-3 running on the same MVS system, and
the problems that it caused MPS with ramifications for ECOH, it is
not recommended that the Soft-Switch server reside on the same MVS
processor as MPS. Since the DO will be OIT's first test customer,
OIT is very interested in assisting IMS to produce a highly
responsive and reliable system. OIT is also working closely with
Soft-Switch to enhance the security capabilities of its product and
OIT and IMS, part of this pilot program, should cooperate
extensively to define and evaluate these security features.
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b. The AIM gateway must be installed. This will permit
documents to move between AIM and the Soft-Switch server. SNA is
used for this connection. Although ADDS will allow documents to be
exchanged between Wang UFFICE and AIM, it cannot extend the
functionality of AID; to tY;e Wang, or vice versa. For example,
features such as routing through releasing authorities or querying
the disposition of a document is not extended across systems. The
AIM gateway is provided by OIT and is a VM VTAM application. There
is very little operational experience with VM VTAM applications, but
it is known that a failure of such an application can lock all
logged on VTAM users while the system automatically recovers.
c. For each VS connected to this system, a Comten port will
be required. For the test system, IMS has reserved the port. If
interactive logon to the mainframe is desired in addition to the
proposed electronic document transfer, then another Comten port is
required. For the ADDS connection, the port must then be connected
to the MVS system since that is where Soft-Switch is resident. Use
of'the Mailbridge server on the Wang VS dictates that an MVS address
be dedicated this connection. OIT is working with Wang to develop
software that will allow this to be an SNA connection. This will
remove the resource requirement of the MVS address but, more
importantly, it will significantly increase the throughput of the
system. These ports must be on DLC-MIMs. The Comtens providing
connectivity for the Wang VS systems must be operating with the SNA
software. For the long term this may require upgrading the Comten
operating system to be able to support additional memory and
additional MIMs. OIT has already funded and ordered an additional 1
Mbyte of memory for the Special Center Comtens as part of the NEWS
project and ItrS may want to plan for the procurement of additional
i~;Ii`;s. These resource requirements can be better quantified after
the evaluation is complete.
d. The Soft-Switch Mailbridge software will need to be
licensed for the Wang VS system. The license fee is $34,560 to
support up to six Wang VS systems. There are a number of Wang
software packages that must be procured for the Wang VS. In
general, this list depends on specific configurations and
applications. OIT/EG has had Mrs. Cyndy 0?Neill from Wang at
Bethesda, Md., under contract for the past year on the ADDS
project. She can be contacted at 657-5283 to assist in obtaining
the required Wang software. OIT/EG will fund her time under its
contract.
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e. For the electronic mail to be routed correctly from Wang
to AIi~i and vice-versa, a coordinated directory scheme must be
designed and installed. The model chosen for the General Services
implementation is to allow Soft-Switch knowledge only of certain
twang nodes and not of each individual user. It is then the
responsibility of the Wang OFFICE system at that node to distribute
the documents to users on that system. Initially, each Wang user
will have to have their USERID placed in the AIM directory. In
addition, each AIM user who will receive mail from a Wang. user will
have to have their AIM USERID placed in the Wang OFFICE directory.
Furthermore if it is planned to connect several Alliance systems to
a vS system, the user must provide unique user identifiers across
those Alliance systems. As in the case of other system directories,
it will be necessary to implement an administrative function.
~. ~n the long term, the %0 will need the resources mentioned in
~~racraij:. ~ and there ~.oill be additional considerations. Soft-Switch
licenses their products suer: that there is a cost increase for each
additional t;~ree nodes or devices over the initial six. The maximum
license fee for any one product is $?6,600. As the volume and length of
aocu:;:ents increase, anu as the system becomes more popular, the impact:::on
the t4~,~S s~?stem will increase. she system will need to be carefully
monitore:: as twang ~'S systerr,s are incre;:~entally added to determine if and
wren adcitional CPL and LASD resources will be required. Additional CPU
resources may require additional system software licenses and further
additional DASD. The Comten resource issue has been discussed and as
Wang VS systems are added, additional Comten resources will be required
depe~rding on plans for connectivity. UIT needs some lead time to procure
and install the hardware and to upgrade the software as discussed.
Although it is anticipated that the bulk of DO requirements will be
satisfied by the electronic mail connection, should there be a desire to
add interactive connections, the impact of these additional users on VM
systems must be considered.
5. ADDS is a multifaceted project. In addition to the capability
that DO desires initially, ADDS will also provide connection to other
mail systems, including DEC and various LAN mail systems. As part of
this program, the Message Electronic Transfer Service (METS) is being .
developed. This is a locally developed system that will deliver cables
from POPS to Soft-Switch and from there to the connected electronic mail
systems. Technically, there is no reason that this function cannot be
extended to electronically originated cables.
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26 August 1988
SUBJECT: Response to IMS Requirements Memo:
Implementation of the Wang to AIM Capability
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FROM:
Appended is our suggested response to the subject memo. I
realize it is longer than you would normally like to see. My
troops feel pretty strongly, however, that they would like to see
this material covered. There is a substantial background to all
of this, particularly to the configuration and who pays issues.
Our experience with IMS is that a thorough mutual understanding of
what we are going to do is essential to a smooth working program.
An alternative to the D/OIT signing out such a long memo is to
make it an addendum to a shorter forwarding one. Should you
prefer this approach, we would be happy to work with you to
execute it.
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RE: (et al.) note dated 09/07/88
On the Wang to AIM capability, I understand that DO has contacted Wang
to connect alliances to the first test system. This is in contradiction
to the spirit of the original request. I would like to hold up on our
response until we can get a stronger memo back which defines what .the
25X1 system has to be. My number is
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CONFIDENTIAL
8 September 1988
25X1
25X1
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
Response to IMS Requirements Memo:
Implementation of the Wang to AIM Capability
Bob, I have a number of problems with and questions about the
draft response. Please pardon me if I ask some technically naive
questions; I've been out of the loop for quite a while...
The original memo from o D/OIT asks a yes/no
question: Will we help IMS implement an interface between Wang
mail and AIM? The draft response is more like a project
implementation plan -- with four pages of details and caveats. I
believe our response should start with a simple YES or NO
statement followed by the appropriate BUTs.
Our memo must clearly identify the costs and impacts which we
expect the DO to bear., As I read your memo, the impacts are:
(1) This will be a testbed. We're not scheduled to complete the
full-up ADDS system for DS&T in the near term.
(2) The DO must fund $34,560 in FY-89 and $6,00 a year thereafter
for the Soft-Switch MVS central license.
(3) The Soft-Switch central MAY have a.negative impact on MPS
and/or MDS-3 performance.
(4) EACH Wang VS the DO connects via this link will require its
own COMTEN port. Since there are no new ports available, the
DO must reassign ports from their existing pool to provide
these, or else fund for new DLC-MIMs and ports.
(5) In addition, the DO must purchase a configuration-specific
number of Wang software packages of unspecified cost for EACH
VS they connect.
(6) There will be an extensive amount of start-up and on-going
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administrative work (both from the DO and from OIT) to make
this interface work.
Did I miss any of the key impacts/costs?
On a more editorial note,
-- I don't think we should mention the three options in paragraph
3 of your note. Since we clearly recommend option C, and that
is the one that IMS wants anyway, why not just say 'We
recommend a technical approach in which'...and include the
text from 3.C.
-- In paragraph 4.A, we raise the potential problem of Soft-
Switch's performance impact on MPS and MDS-3, but we do not
give any suggestions of what the DO should do about it.
Should they: plan to buy another processor or a bigger one?
go slowly in adding VSes?
-- In paragraph 4.A, we mention something about enhancing
security capabilities of Soft-Switch. That whole section lost
me. Is there a problem the DO should know and worry about?
Do they have reservations we need to address?
-- In paragraph 4.B, we allude to routing/releasing/querying
across systems. Is this a problem? If not, let's drop it.
If so, let's highlight it under .the section on costs/impacts.
-- In paragraph 4.C, we talk about MVS addresses and Wang's SNA
connection software. Are these problem areas? Do they affect
cost, schedule, or functionality? What happens if the DO
doesn't fund additional DLC-MIMs? Do they need to? In short;
we raised a lot of issues but didn't give the DO some required
or recommended courses of action.
-- In paragraph 5, we talk about license fees of $96-,000 maximum.
I missed the point. Is this something else we expect the DO
to fund?
I guess the bottom line of my comments is that our memo had no
bottom line. Will we help the DO on this or not? And if we will,
what are the approximate schedule, cost, and impacts? Most of the
rest of the memo belongs in an implementation plan.
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