INFORMATION AND MANAGEMENT SUPPORT STAFF WEEKLY REPORT FOR PERIOD ENDING 11 JANUARY 1984

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87-00352R000100130023-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 28, 2009
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: January 11, 1984
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION AND MANAGEMENT SUPPORT STAFF
WEEKLY REPORT FOR PERIOD ENDING 11 JANUARY 1984
1. Progress Report on Tasks Assigned by the DCI/DDCI:
No tasks assigned during this reporting period.
2. Items or Events of Major Interest that have Occurred
During the Preceding Week:
a. LIMS - Information and Management Support
Staff initiated a paper on the requisition approval process to
be incorporated in LIMS. Both the Office of Finance and the
Audit Staff, OIG, concurred in the approach taken. The devel-
opment contractor has been informed that the approving
authority for each requisition must access the requisition and
provide his approval. If the approval of cognizant, technical
or special authorities is also required, they too, will be
asked to access the requisition and provide their approval. A
requisition will not be accepted by OL for processing until the
required approvals have been obtained.
(1) The above approach will provide a sound audit
trail and will eliminate the potential for misunderstanding or
abuse that could occur if requestors were allowed to certify
approvals had been obtained outside of LIMS. By virtue of
creating hard stops, this approach should help to separate
those "approvals" that are truly required in advance from
those that are informative or administrative in nature and can
be obtained through ad hoc reports after the request has been
entered into LIMS for processing.
b. DAS - On 10 January, the C/DAS conducted an
hour briefing on the DAS mission, functions, objectives and
organizational structure to 56 personnel. Of this number, 24
people are incumbents of DAS designated positions. The
remaining 32 represented various degrees of interest in the
DAS, from components within and without the OL. Of this latter
group, 19 have evidenced interest in seeking an ADP career and
desire to be considered as candidates for DAS positions.
Subsequent reaction to the briefing appears positive in all
aspects.
(1) I I C/DCB/SD, conducted a
briefing on ICS capabilities to key OF personnel, 9 January.
This is the first in a series of briefings to inform an OF task
force on OL ADP systems relationships to automated financial
data bases. CONIF, LIMS and possibly FARS briefings will follow.
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SUBJECT: Information and Management Support Staff Weekly Report
for Period Ending 11 January 1984
(2) RECD reports that construction of the WANG
Alliance CPU room will commence on or before 23 January. The
new second and third floor Alliance systems should be in place
in late February.
c. Regulations
HN 45-8, Electric Typewriter Repair Service -
This HN, orginated by LSD, was submitted to OIS/RCD for
publication.
Accommodations - Concurred.
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Technical Group/DAS/IMSS/OL
WEEKLY STATUS REPORT
Week of 2 to 6 January 1984
I. Major Activities During the Past Week:
A. Support to OL:
REALESTATE (Realestate System). Meetings were held on 3 and
4 January to discuss the status of the design of Domestic Real
Property System (DRPS). To date the System Requirements Document
(SRD) and the Data Specifications Document (DSD) have been
STAT completed. At the 4 January meeting Chief,
Real Estate Branch, requested an additional requirement for the
system which will be incorporated into the SRD and the DSD. The
next phase of the development will be to program the system and
STAT write a user's manual. (U)
STAT
STAT
STAT
CONIF (Contract Information System). Changes were made to
the CONIFGETICS nightly interface procedure and the mod and sep of
the ICS/DETAIL file in order to decrease the run time of that
procedure. The CONIFGETICS procedure processes the LINE/DETAIL
data received from ICS. (U)
MISCELLANEOUS.
attended the GAS Major Enhancements Project Bi-weekly Meeting on 4
January. The status of the outstanding problems were reported and
discussed. A plan to document and coordinate every problem is
under way. Attendees were representatives from OF, OL, and ODP
and included Data Base Managers for the interfacing systems.
(U)
A. Support to OL:
STAT
STAT
MISCELLANEOUS.I (from the Information
Support Branch, ISD ISG DP, reported to the Technical Group,
DAS/IMSS/OL, on 3 January 1984. Tom can be reached at
(U)
OL/IMSS/DAS/TG, 166 P&P Bldg.,
A. Support to OL:
FARS (Federal Automated Requisitioning System). Inability to
Transfer Data From the FARS System via DATEX. On 5 January
representatives from Data General, Computer Systems Support
Corporation, Datex, and Systems Engineering Branch/ODP, were asked
to participate in a test run. This had been set up to monitor the
flow of data from FARS to DATEX. With monitoring devices on both
ends, the test results pointed to a hardware problem. On 7
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January the Technical Center/ODP specialists found that the FARS
sending clock used to transmit between FARS and DATEX was not in
synchronization. They will return next week to determine what
caused the clock to go out of synchronization. (U)
ICS (Inventory Control System). Three procedures currently
in production have surfaced several flaws in their logic. REQNP,
which is used in confirming stock issue, has apparently been
allowing the issue of stock which does not exist onhand. The
procedure will be reviewed and the Data Base Manager will be
consulted to provide revised specifications. ICSGETCONIF and ADD-
INV re-Quire the addition of a N/E to the route statement.
(U)
AVRS (Agency Vehicles Records System). The NIPS database has
been restored. This is a recurring problem that will be
investigated to determine the cause and a remedy. (U)
IV. Upcoming Events:
None to report.
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