PROCESSING WEEKLY REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 2 DECEMBER 1981

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00933R000400210024-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 26, 2003
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: December 2, 1981
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Data Processing
Deputy Director for Processing
SUBJECT: Processing Weekly Report for
Week Ending 2 December 1981
Briefings - I briefed 2 contractors working on
CAMS2 Development and other representatives of the COMIREX Staff,
on the services that are provided to CAMS1 by the Data Base
Management Branch. A tour of the Data Base Control Center and
OC/Data. Communications Center followed the briefing.
IBM completed the initial installation of the new 3081
Processor on Monday 23 November. Checkout of this processor is
underway. Initial diagnostics are being run by IBM remotely
through a diagnostic phone link.
The Amdahl 470/V6-2 processor was upgraded to 6 megabytes of
memory on Saturday, 28 November. Physical installation of the
memory has been completed but additional check out is required
before the new memory can be turned over for use.
A tour of the Ruffing Center was given to 15 members of OTS
on Tuesday, 24 November.
The Ruffing Center had a good week for production. On
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Tuesday, 24 November, the OCR applications lost an hour when
incorrect software was loaded, and a similar mistake on Wednesday
cost RECON 75 minutes. All OCR applications and GIMDEV lost about
100 minutes, Wednesday, due to paging errors on a Telex disk pack.
A system software problem caused a loss of JES for 50 minutes,
Wednesday. Monday, the IBM 370/168-1 was down for 7-1/2 hours,
caused by a bad card. The Special Center had an excellent week.
The major problems were an 18 minute loss by TPNIPS on Friday
because of applications software errors, and a 30 minute loss of
VM on Tuesday, 1 December, which has not yet been resolved.
During the week of 1 - 4 December, two operators from DIA
will be at the SAFE Center as part of an indoctrination and
training program.
SYSTEMS AVAILABILITY SUMMARY
MONDAY 23 NOV 1981 THRU SUNDAY 29 NOV 1981
CURRENT WEEK PREVIOUS 90 DAYS
SYSTEM 23 NOV - 29 NOV 22.AUG - 22 NOV DIFFERENCE
BATCH 96.43 98.06 - 1.63
INTERACTIVE 97.95 98.74 - .79
GIMS 95.55 96.42 - .87
CAMS 99.29 97.80 + 1.49
OCR-COLTS 77.92 96.53 - 18.61
OCR-RECON 77.09 95.76 - 18.67
DDO-STAR 98.82 97.13 + 1.69
OSWR-TADS 100.00 98.61 + 1.39
GIMS, OCR-COLTS, and OCR-RECON all reported below the
goal
of 96 percent for the week with each application recording
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outages due to hardware, software, and procedural errors.
- GIMS experienced 1 hour and 47 minutes of hardware outages.
OCR-COLTS had 5 hours, and 40 minutes of hardware outages
(including 5 hours of IBM channel problems), 2 hours and 10
minutes of software errors, and a 1 hour OD procedural
problem.
- OCR-RECON had 5 hours and 35 minutes of hardware outages
(including 5 hours of IBM channel problems), 2 hours and 35
minutes of software errors, and a 1 hour OD procedural
problem.
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