MAINFRAME CONNECTIVITY FOR OFFICE OF FINANCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91B00060R000100190029-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2013
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: August 4, 1988
• Content Type: MEMO

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CONFIDENTIAL
OIT-0804-88
174 AUG 198S
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Financial Systems
Office of Finance
125X1 FROM:
Deputy Director, Office of Information Technology
SUBJECT: Mainframe Connectivity for Office of Finance
1. Your request for connectivity is being handled by our Customer
Service Group. The Key Building is scheduled for a commulications upgrade the
first week of August. This is needed to provide additional voice and data
connectivity prior to connecting your WANG-VS system.
2. We estimate to have most of the details worked out by the end of the
25X1 month. If you have further questions, please contact
25X1
25X1
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SUBJECT: Mainframe Connectivty for Office of Finance
25X1 DC/TS/CSG/OIT
Distribution:
Orig. - Addressee
1 - DC/TS/CSG
2 - DD/OIT
3 - ISC/OIT
3 Aug 1988
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12 July 1988
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director, Office of Information Technology
FROM
Deputy Director for Financial Systems
Office of Finance
SUBJECT : Mainframe Connectivity for the Office of Finance
T /TE
4.0
19 JUL 1988
1. As you know, the lack of mainframe computer ports throughout the
Agency has become a serious problem. The Office of Finance has received no
additional mainframe ports in nearly four years. While our mainframe
connectivity has remained static, our dependence on ADP services has increased
dramatically. The Audit and Certification Division, which is one of our major.
operating components utilizes the CONIFIII system extensively to process the
accurate and timely payment of over 60,000 invoices a year. The workload in
this Division has been increasing at an annual rate of nearly fifteen percent
while the number of mainframe devices has remained constant at eighteen.
Further pressure for increased mainframe access will result from legislation
effective in October that increases the possibility of large penalty payments
if we are unable to access the mainframe system to permit timely payments. We
have three or more employees sharing a single device in processing invoices
25X1 for payments at In addition, the available mainframe
connectivity at Key Building is also woefully inadequate. In October 1985, we
created the new Financial Systems Division which consists of Office of
Finance, Office of Information Technology and contractor personnel. This
25X1 Division has people located in Key Building with port capacity to
support only eig t devices. This is a major impediment to orderly development
of major financial system applications.
2. In January 1988, we submitted a request to the Customer Service
Group/OIT to use our Wang VS system as a communication node to the VM system.
This proposal would increase mainframe connectivity at Key Building and. at
25X1 the same time, free up ports that could be transferred to to
satisfy the dire need explained above.
25X1
3. Although there have been several discussions about this proposal, we
have received no formal reply to our request. I would appreciate your
assistance to achieve a positive response to our proposal. I would be happy
to meet with you to discuss this request in more detail, if you desire.
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