Infrastructure – Enterprise Systems George Dranes, Assistant Director of the Computer Center Zach Pratt, Systems Programmer

ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS

Current Mainframe Configuration Separated into four logical partitions

Production z/OS operating system

Includes STARS, WIUP and all administrative batch processing

Student z/OS operating system

Maintained for WIU’s CS 220 and CS 230 COBOL courses

Test z/OS operating system

Testing ground for major subsystem upgrades

z/VM operating system (hypervisor)

Currently supporting 9 SUSE Linux images

Resource shortages on mainframe have forced a restructuring of the system

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z/OS Production System

FY12 Accomplishments

Migrated operating system from z/OS release 1.11 to release 1.12

Migrated Transaction Server (CICS) from release 3.2 to release 4.2

Successfully performed a disaster recovery test at Sungard’s Chicago facility

Replaced 60+ years of Production Control experience due to Marcia Blackledge’s and Fred Combite’s retirements

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z/OS Production System

System availability and throughput

Processed 1,041,581 jobs in 2011 requiring 7706 hours of CPU

Increase of nearly 1000 CPU hours over 2010

STARS and WIUP CICS systems processed 58,333,120 transactions in 2011 requiring 1051 CPU hours

Decrease of 8,000,000 transactions yet an increase of 168 CPU hours over 2010???

CICS system availability over the previous 52 weeks is 99.99% (8,120.9 hours out of a possible 8,121.25 hours)

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z/OS Production System

Goals and New Projects for FY13

Migrate from release 8 to release 10 of DB2

Migrate from release 1.12 to release 1.13 of z/OS

Work with AIMS to CASify STARS

Continue to maintain our 99.9%+ availability rate and our sub-second CICS transaction response time

Perform yearly disaster recovery test in June

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Morgan Hall Data Center Updates and Ongoing Projects

Computer Center modernization project kicked off

Upgrade HVAC system

Reorganize Data Center to follow hot/cold aisle approach

Make electrical upgrades required for future growth of the Center

Several walk-throughs with Stanley Engineering architects and engineers

Currently the project is in the hands of the Capital Development Board

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Pentaho and Data Warehouse – FY12 Accomplishments

AIMS added two full-time data architects to the team: Jeff Brown and Brian Jarmy

Worked closely with the following departments to implement business intelligence solutions for them:

Macomb and Quad Cities Admissions

Foundation and Development

University Housing and Dining

We are continuing to add new features for each of these departments in addition to maintaining our current implementation

Upgraded the Pentaho BI Server to the latest release: 4.1

Switched to using RACF credentials for Pentaho authentication

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Pentaho and Data Warehouse – FY12 Accomplishments continued

Began the implementation of a Changed Data Capture solution, which will allow for efficient ETL processing and reduce the load on the transactional database system which supports STARS and WIUP

This has been fully implemented for the Foundation Phonathon System and partially implemented for other areas

Created an internal data governance group to define our strategy for Pentaho and data warehouse stewardship and security

Began working on an web-based method for handling requests for access to Pentaho and the data warehouse

ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS

Pentaho and Data Warehouse – FY12 Accomplishments continued

Three team members (Jeff, Jon, and Zach) were able to attend multiple training events, which included:

A TDWI (The Data Warehouse Institute) Conference

3 Pentaho classes – Bootcamp, PDI, and Pentaho Architect

A Kimball University Dimensional Modeling

Installed and configured separate test and production Pentaho servers

Began working on separate test and production data warehouse servers

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Pentaho and Data Warehouse – FY13 Goals

Continue the implementation of the university’s data warehouse by expanding into additional subjects areas within Admissions and Foundation and Development

Continue to improve our strategy for data governance and stewardship by working closely with AIMS, our users, The Office of the Registrar, and the Chief Technology Security Officer

Finalize our implementation for a system that will handle requests for access to

Pentaho and the university’s data warehouse

Continue to expand and refine our Change Data Capture implementation

Maintain the latest release of Pentaho

Upgrade the data warehouse to the latest release of DB2 LUW (9.7)

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z/VM Accomplishments – FY12

Deployed the SUSE Subscription Management Tool (SMT) server to manage licenses and updates for all of our z/VM guests running SUSE Linux

Updated our CIS Secure-based lockdown procedure for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and applied it to all new guests

Upgraded 4 of our 9 z/VM guests from SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 SP2 to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1

Supported the Interpersonal Violence Prevention Education Program (IVPE) by hosting their education application on z/VM

Continued providing support for the WEPPAS web application, which in turn supports COEHS’ Teacher Education program

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z/VM Accomplishments - FY 12 continued

The Pentaho BI Server had a 591% increase in pages views and a 777% increase in hits from calendar year 2010 to 2011

80,912 page views and 278,815 hits during calendar year 2011 compared to 11,711 page views and 31,780 hits in calendar year 2010

The WEPPAS web application had a 133% increase in page views and a 109% increase in hits from calendar year 2010 to 2011

180,730 page views and 824,697 hits during calendar year 2011 compared to 77,664 page views and 394,165 hits in calendar year 2010

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ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS

z/VM Goals - FY 13

Continue to improve the security and reliability of our environment

Maintain the latest releases and maintenance levels of DB2 LUW and Pentaho

Upgrade z/VM from release 5.3 to 5.4

Finish the upgrade of all z/VM Linux virtual machines from SLES10 to SLES11

Install the latest release of CEG connector for u.select

Implement an NFS v4 server on z/OS for incremental backup storage for Linux and

also for mounting users’ home directories