DD/A/ODP WEEKLY REPORT WEEK OF 17-24 JUNE 1981'

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00933R000400190009-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 8, 2004
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• Content Type: REPORT

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.1_ ^M I REX AUTOMATED MANAGEMENT SYSTEM) i= AM:'_:2 {.p/c..'.'
PERSONNEL ATTENDED THE i_ HM:'_:2 (T/S> MANAGER'S MEETING AT THE
TASKING SEGMENT CONTRACTOR'S FAC I L I T?Y . THE CHMSTAi_ k:. SOFTWARE
':.INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS.} WAS DISCUSSED. THE CHM:_2 (T'?:) PLANS To
USE THE CAM_THCK. SOFTWARE IN THEIR SYSTEM CONFIGURATION. THE
i_:HM :TAi= K DOCUMENTATION WAS PROVIDED AT THE MEETING. .':LIBSE-
MUENTLY9 THE CAM:-:TAI=:K SOFTWARE HAS BEEN FORWARDED.
__--_--_-- (::IMULATE AIR DEFENSE SYSTEMS TO DETERMINE CAPA-
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BILIT?Y. B DIVISION CONDUCTED A CRITICAL DESIGN REVIEW OF THE
AIRDEFENSE :?YSTEM ON 18 JUNE. ONLY MINOR EDITORIAL CHANGES TO
DESIGN DOCUMENTATION WERE REQUIRED. AIRDEFENSE WILL NOW ENTER
STAT ITS PROGRAMMING PHASE.
(CIA RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY SYSTEM) THE REQU I RE-
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MENTS PAPER FOR THE NEW CIHRD:?= PAYROLL SYSTEM HAS BEEN ACCEPTED
BY THE COMPENSATION DIVISION ^F THE OFFICE OF F I NANCE f AND WE
ARE CONTINUING EFFORTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PROJECT PROPOSAL
STAT FOR THE SYSTEM.
__-- (MESSAGE PROCESSING :'SYSTEM) DURING THE FIRST TEN DAYS
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^F OPERATIONS A VARIETY OF HARDWARE PROBLEMS IN BOTH ^DP AND DI_:
RESULTED IN MPS RECEIVING TRAFFIC ABOUT 87% OF THE TIME.
STAT
STAT
STAT
EDDED B DIV. AS A SUMMER ONLY EMPLOYEE.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Data Processing
Deputy Director for Processing
SUBJECT: Processing Weekly Report for
Week Ending 23 June 1981
1. Systems Availability: Attached is the Systems
Availability Report.
2. ACF2. Daily activity reports are now being run as a
part of the nightly SMF collection process.
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3. PANVALET. Software changes, provided by were
installed on 18 June and both libraries were restored; the ODP
library to 3 June and the non-ODP library to 8 June. Thus far,
there has been heavy activity and no further failures.
will be asked for an explanation of what the fixes corrected.
4. We provided special processing to support a GAS training
session conducted by OF.
5. MPS., Two extended outages were encountered due to what
appears to be a Datex problem. In both cases, the outage ended when
Datex fixed their system and restarted.
6. The Amdahl 470/V6-1 (SY6) is operational. At present
only batch work is being run on this processor. Other onlines are
due to be tested later in the week.
7. The second Xerox 9700 is installed and operational in
the Ruffing Center. Testing of this system is now underway.
8. Twenty-seven 'Data Interns' from NSA were given a tour of
the Buffing Center on 16 June and seven new OCR employees toured the
Center on 17 June.
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9. The Electro-Matic Conveyor. belt degausser was installed
and tested on Thursday, 19 June. One hundred and fifty-three tapes
were degaussed and every fifth tape checked using the look label
utility. Total time to degauss the tapes was approximately 4 minutes.
This time compares to about 3 hours work using a manual tape degausser.
10. Idea Incorporated delivered and installed the Automatic
Tape Deguasser in the Ruffing Center on Monday, 22 June. This
system will eventually replace the Data Erase Operation currently
used in both centers. Software testing will follow acceptance
testing.
11. OD personnel have been attendin weekly meetings concerning
the upcoming move of OD&E to the OD is currently STAT
reviewing the procedures to handle movement of tape between the
and Headquarters Building. Selection of the individual to be
in charge of the planned computer facility at the STAT
is forthcoming.
12. The VM service continues to deliver degraded response
during various periods of the day. IBM has placed a member of the
VM development team onsite to assist in locating the operations
system software problems.
13. ED/TB is testing the new Commo statistical multiplexor.
14. A failure of the Uninterruptable Power Supply halted all
Ruffing Center operations Wednesday afternoon, most of them for over
2 hours. VM was restored after nearly 2 hours of additional downtime.
Friday evening one of VM's multiprocessor computers failed, causing
a loss of 3 hours. Seventy minutes were lost to JES on Saturday
when a job caused JES to hang. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday were
relatively trouble-free.
15. The Special Center had a high number of major lost-time
incidents. CAMS had many interruptions early in the week, including
an outage of 62 hours on Saturday which began when a cable was
disconnected by mistake. On Thursday, TPSTAR lost 22 hours due to
tape and disk controller problems. NIPS lost 3 hours that day when
its computer was used as backup for the CAMS computer, which was
having memory errors.
STAT
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UNCLASSIFIED
DDA/ODP
SYSTEMS AVAILABILITY SUMMARY
MONDAY 15 JUN 1981 THRU SUNDAY 21 JUN 1981
SYSTEM
CURRENT WEEK
15 JUN - 21 JUN
PREVIOUS 90 DAYS
16 MAR - 14 JUN
DIFFERENCE
BATCH
96.30
97.66
1.36
INTERACTIVE
93.40
95.75
- 2.35
GIMS
93.70
97.04
- 3.34
CAMS
89.21
98.33
- 9.12
OCR-COLTS
95.10
95.64
- .54
OCR-RECON
95.50
95.99
- .49
DDO-STAR
97.03
95.51
+ 1.52
OSWR-TADS
96.07
96.70
- .63
INTERACTIVE, GIMS, CAMS, OCR-COLTS, and OCR-RECON
all reported below the goal of 96 percent for the week with
each application recording outages due to hardware, software,
procedural, and a UPS power problem.
- INTERACTIVE (VM) experienced a 2 hour and 10 minute outage
as a result of a UPS power fluctuation, 1 hour and 2 minutes
of software errors, and 26 minutes of hardware problems.
- GIMS had a 2 hour and 5 minute outage as a .result of a
UPS power fluctuation, a 37 minute Cambridge Memory hardware
problem, and 27 minutes of software errors.
- CAMS experienced 8 hours and 49 minutes of outages due to
an ED procedural error, 4 hours and 27 minutes of software
errors, 3 hours and 15 minutes of hardware problems, and a
1 hour and 6 minute outage as a result of a UPS power
fluctuation.
- OCR-COLTS had a 1 hour and 30 minute Cambridge Memory
hardware problem, a 50 minute outage as a result of a UPS
power fluctuation, and 7 minutes of software errors.
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- OCR-RECON experienced a 1 hour and 25 minute Cambridge
Memory hardware error and a 50 minute outage as a result of a
UPS power fluctuation.
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