PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LIMS SYSTEM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85-00988R000100060019-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 23, 2005
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: December 6, 1982
• Content Type: REPORT

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S E C R E T
December 6, 1982
1. The LIMS system is envisioned as a network of ADP ter-
minals within Agency facilities in the Washington metropolitan
area, through which all local Agency customers can input
materiel and service requests to the OL support system. In
essence, these terminals will electronically link customers and
system users to expedite the flow of requirements and the
exchange of information. The system will require the use of
line printers, graphics terminals, communication links and the
equipment necessary to support these linkages. In the long
term it is anticipated that, as overseas communications are
improved, remotely located customers, using office automation
equipment already in place, will be able to directly input
their request.
2. The current developmental activity within LIMS embraces
the necessity to define requirements for system software. No
substantive identification of system hardware requirements has
yet been undertaken, for two reasons: system IOC will not
occur until mid-FY 85; as currently conceived, LIMS will use
ODP mainframe CPUs and the network of terminals, line printers
and peripherals in place at that time--plus additional ter-
minals and printers as may be required, over and above the then
existing facilities. It is premature to forecast LIMS hardware
requirements for FY-85 and beyond, in light of planned ADP
equipment growth during the interim period. An example of an
early hardware requirements package for a specific location is
attached; by IOC some of this equipment may already be in place
and in use for other than the specific LIMS application. This
example will undoubtedly apply to many Headquarters installa-
tions. In sum, LIMS is a software package to be applied to
ODP's hardware facilities and capabilities.
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