ODP REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 21 OCTOBER 1977

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83T00573R000600130012-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2001
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: October 21, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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ODP 3019-77
21 October 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR: Acting Deputy Director for Administration
Clifford D. May, Jr.
Director of Data Processing
ODP Report for Week ending 21 October 1977
Training Provided to FBI
ODP taught an eight day course, GIN--II Dictionaries,
which was completed by 13 students. Five of these students
are with the FBI and have been provided this training to
help the FBI become more proficient with their newly intro-
duced 1 IM-II system. GI-1-II is a data base management system
developed by TRW, Inc. for the Federal government and funded
primarily by CIA. CIA is cooperating with other Federal
agencies, like the FBI, to help them gain experience with
this sophisticated system. Our main vehicle for this is a
GIMP Users Group sponsored by CIA. STATINTL
Hearing
The budget hearing with OMB and Intelligence Co uiity
Staff examiners was held on Thursday afternoon. The hear
ing was conducted on the consolidated decision package leve4TATINTL
which was contained in the Zero Base ,Budget (ZBB) format
previously provided to OMB. ODP answered 12 specific ..ues-
tuns that had been provided prior to the hearing.
90P Trai.ninc Budget
OOP provided information to the i:DA Budget Staff on how
the cut in the I Y--78 'training Bud et was achieved and the
effect this would have in FY-79. STATINTL
Final Offers for IB 360/195 Coe. - utor Re lacement
The Office of Taogi stics has called for best and final
offers from bidders for the computer to replace the IBS
3601195. :Bast and final offers are due in by 21 October.
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view ofr .FP' s
nagement Staff reviewed and sent back corm:ents to
the originators o:i two s equasts for Proposal. One of the
fTP's was for a Federal Automated Requisition (FAR) ini-
computer; another was for management support services for
Engineering ',:)ivision. \n RP? from :-YFIC on a minicomputer
for a mensuration application has also been reviewed and
Additional 'PU for : PIC
GDP orally concurred with :PIC for the lease of a
UNIVAC 1110 Command and Arithmetic Unit (CAU). This is
an additional CPUJ for the `? PIC Data System (NUS)
Space for `1S Computer Facility
Representatives of am ge,;,ant S{-off, < nclineering vi-
sign, and A Division mot with representatives of the Office
of Logistics (UL) Real Estate and. Space :)ivision. ;,,5L i.nforn ri
ODP that there is no space available in the Headquarters
building for our requested expansion. }aanagement Staff, DDP'
will coordinate an impact stateaent that has been requested
by >OL.
Rea20nses Written on rIPS PUBS
Comments were furnished the :?ational Bureau of Standards
on two proposed Federal Information Processing Standard STATINTL
Publications (FIPS PUB). These proposed PIPS PUBs addressed
standards for a computer program abstact and revisions to
a publication on optical character recognition.
A briefing on the CIA and =`JIA Joint SAFE Project will
be presented to the Senate Select Committee Staff on 4 ..;over;..
ber 1977 as part of a briefing on FAC'a use of A .0P. The
SAFE Design competition Phase (DCP) Orientation .3riefings
for the LCP contractors, started on :londay, STATINTL
17 October. ':,'he briefings w 1 continue through 27 DCtoberSTATINTL
at Ames Building, with the exception of a 20 ictober briefing
and tour of the Office of communications F-eadquarter facil
ities and tour of the 0T)P fluffing Computer Center.
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ADSTAR
on 19 October 1977, Harris and PRC were debrie
the non-selection of their proposals for the `r:DSTrR request
for proposal.
'".`he contractor has stated they plan to continue "a
long term effect will depend on who is chosen as the repl.ace-
ment.
A RAPID Steering Committee ;fleeting was held on 21 Y?ctor)arTINTL
1977. : ng the items discussed was the Agency's position
on how, or if, the RAPID project should continue.
y S System Interru- ions
The -X AS system was down the night of 19-20 October with
hardware and software problems. The switch to the back-Up
computer was unsuccessful, making the system unavailable to
Community users from 1800 hrs. 19 October until approxir_:atel ,
1130 hrs. 20 October.
A reallocation of disk space for the CAMS data base in
the Special Center is scheduled for the weekend of 22 October.
To do this the data base must be '- frozen.. " Therefore, the data
base will be available to users in a retrieve-only rode for
a period of about 48 hours. - STATINTL
Sup rt to office of Finance
CON IF .R.. 'lanagenent of information on "agency contracts
and interface problems. of the 25 problems that have been
identified since the beginning of Phase II system tents, only
4 are still outstanding. Currently, project completion is
scheduled for 1 January 197$. Or re its that approximately
25% of the testing is now complete. STATINTL
CAS r=eneral ccounnting Systems. ? 'he review of fiscal
year--end closing reports has been completed by OF . >:11 files
were {updated correctly durin the year-end ,processing which
was completed recently. STATINTL
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and producing a "ser'a Guide. We expect to begin training
OCR personnel next week and to move this software to the
GIMS Production system in about two weeks.
S cial envelopes for mailin FE ctronic Funds `'ransfer
(EFT) promotional material. STATINTL
Sort to Office of Central Reference
OCRDIR - Automation of the OCR directories. OCR has
approved the page galleys for the publication of the Cninese
and Romanian directories. Wo expect P&PO to complote the
printing of these directories early next month.
We have completed the development of all menus and pro-
cedures which will be used to input and maintain standard
directory data. Currently, we are performing final testincSTATINTL
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changed to reflect the recent pay raise.
Address labels for all overt . gency employees were
-Arad for OF. OF is planning to attach these labels to
PAYROLL - The --agency payroll system. Pay scales have been
ch S stem software Problem .yiagnased
The serious problem which caused the batch system in
JES3problem was caused by a user's unusual reference to a
`generation data group" (a special feature of the operating
system). 17111is should have resulted in the termination of
the job with a JCL (Job Control Language) error. I3stead,
the job caused JES3 to terminate abnormally. IBM is working
on a permanent fix for the problem. STATINTL
The batch systems unavailability caused processing
schedules to slip on PAYROLL. r ? 1CA f GAS, FLSA, CCFC. and ^T ^ T . T
the Puffing Computer Center to he unavailable for about 30
raining
an eight day course, Basic PL/l, was completed by 14
students. 1 three day course, na.sic JCL, was completed by STATINTL
19 students. -
Clifford 1). May, Jr.
Distribution;
Orig + 2 arise
1 a -:)iv/Staff/ODP
1 - ODP Registry
2 - O/D/ODP
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