PROCESSING WEEKLY REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 14 JULY 1981

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00933R000400200055-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 13, 2003
• Sequence Number: 55
• Publication Date: July 15, 1981
• Content Type: MF

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15 July 1981
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Data Processing
STAT FROM:
Deputy Director for Processing
STAT
SUBJECT: Processing Weekly Report for
Week Ending 14 July 1981
1. Systems Availability: Attached is the Systems
Availability Report.
2. A software system update, System BO, was implemented in
the Ruffing Center on 15 July. Included in the system update are
six months of IBM maintenance, Release 2 of Networking, ACF2 main-
tenance, and some local code. The IBM maintenance includes a
PTF which should eliminate some of the CTC hangs experienced by
GIMPROD the past six months. Release 2 will enable testing of
that capability to begin.
currently being evaluated.
3. On 14 July a modification was installed in VM/CMS
to eliminate some of the overhead associated with CMS terminal
I/O. The modification batches groups of output lines into a
single I/O operation rather than an I/O operation per output
line. The impact of the modification on system performance is
4. VM went into production on 13 July, and is now available
to the users of the Special Center.
5. The IBM 6670 Laser Printer has been installed in ~he
Special Center. Currently it is used in the offline mode.
6. On 13 July the Ruffing Center Output Services Branch
assumed all duties d
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7. The Ruffing Center had a poor week. Another VEPCO
power problem Wednesday afternoon caused JES and Batch a loss
of 68 minutes. Both also lost 30 minutes due to a bad Cambridge
memory card. A JES error contributed to a loss of 45 minutes for
most of the OCR applications on Friday. TADS had an excellent
week until Monday's outage of 140 minutes, when a power supply
failed in the IBM 370/158. All applications had at least 20 minutes
of lost time for the week, and most of them had considerably more.
8. There were few Special Center problems. CAMS was down
four times on different days, averaging 27 minutes per incident,
due to spool pack errors, an Amdahl memory error, CAMS software,
and GIMS software. TPSTAR had paging pack and applications software
difficulties which resulted ir; RE s lost on Monday. DDOGIMS
had no significant problems. 1 -1
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UNCLASSIFIED
DDA/ODP
SYSTEMS AVAILABILITY SUMMARY
MONDAY 06 JUL 1981 THRU SUNDAY 12 JUL 1981
SYSTEM
CURRENT WEEK
06 JUL - 12 JUL
PREVIOUS 90 DAYS
06 APR - 05 JUL
DIFFERENCE
BATCH
94.32
97.88
- 3.56
INTERACTIVE
92.88
97.10
- 4.22
GIMS
91.47
97.90
- 6.43
CAMS
97.84
97.73
+ .11
OCR-COLTS
90.00
96.07
- 6.07
OCR-RECON
87.57
96.95
- 11.38
DDO-STAR
98.91
96.90
+ 2.01
OSWR-TADS
95.16
97.76
- 2.60
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, and VEPCO power problems.
BATCH experienced 6 hours and 18 minutes of outages as a result
of VEPCO power fluctuations, 2 hours and 35 minutes of hardware
problems, and a 40 minute software error.
INTERACTIVE (VM) had 3 hours and 19 minutes of outages as a
result of VEPCO power fluctuations and 36 minutes of hardware
problems.
GIMS experienced 3 hours and 11 minutes of outages as a result
of a VEPCO power fluctuation, 53 minutes of hardware outages,
and a 12 minute software error.
OCR-COLTS had 2 hours and 5 minutes of hardware problems, a 1
hour and 35 minute outage as a result of a VEPCO power fluctuation,
1 hour and 5 minutes of procedural errors, and a 5 minute software
problem.
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- OCR-RECON experienced 2 hours and 5 minutes of hardware problems,
1 hour and 48 minutes of software errors, a 1 hour and 35 minute
outage as a result of a VEPCO power fluctuation, and 55 minutes
of procedural problems.
- OSWR-TADS had a 2 hour and 40 minute outage as a result of
a VEPCO power fluctuation.
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