COBOL Related News

From: Charles Hottel (chottel_at_cpcug.org)
Date: 01/23/04 

Date: 23 Jan 2004 16:15:42 GMT

Our production Librarian has 8,419 modules with 4,578 COBOL programs and
3,841 other modules which are mostly CICS maps, DatacomDB copy books, and
some Easytrieve programs. Here are some of the results:
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection Wins
 Worldwide Scalability Award With CA
           Date: Wednesday, Dec 15 @ 07:27 PST
          Topic: Government News

Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) today announced that U.S.
Customs and Border Protection has taken first place in workload, OLTP
systems, in
Winter Corporation's worldwide scalability competition with a system
built on CA's Advantage CA-Datacom.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection system processes more than two
billion online and batch database requests daily against more than four
terabytes of
data. With peak activity of more than 51,000 transactions per second, the
system was
found to be more than 13 times faster than the second-place finisher.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is an agency of the Department of
Homeland Security and is charged with preventing terrorists and terrorist
weapons
from entering the United States. In addition to processing border-
crossing information for tens of thousands of people each day, U.S.
Customs and Border Protection processes more than 100,000 daily batch
jobs representing billions of dollars of trade shipments entering and
leaving the United States.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is also responsible for apprehending
individuals attempting to enter the United States illegally; stemming the
flow of
illegal drugs and other contraband; protecting U.S. agricultural and
economic interests from harmful pests and diseases; protecting
businesses from theft of their intellectual property; and regulating and
facilitating international trade, collecting import duties, and
enforcing U.S. trade laws. U.S. Customs and Border Protection became an
official agency of the Department of Homeland Security on March 1, 2003,
combining employees from the Department of Agriculture, the Immigration
and Naturalization Service, the Border Patrol and the U.S. Customs
Service.

"Our mandate is extremely challenging from a technological perspective
and extremely critical from a national security perspective," said Linda
Jacksta,
director, systems engineering, U.S. Customs and Border Protection. "As
Winter
Corporation's assessment has shown, the system we have built with the help
of CA's
technology and expertise delivers the world-class performance and
scalability we need to fulfill
that mandate."

Another Winter Corporation study showed that the U.S. Customs and Border
Protection 's OLTP database is one of the world's 10 largest.

CA's Advantage CA-Datacom is a powerful, Web-enabled database platform
that supports some of the world's largest transaction processing systems.

"We are delighted to see one of our customers recognized for this
extraordinary feat of database engineering," said Mark Combs, senior
vice president at CA. "It's particularly rewarding to know that CA
technology is contributing to a system that is playing such an important
role in the protection of this country's citizen's from such a wide
range of potential threats."

The Winter TopTen Program identifies the world's leading database
implementations based on database size, most rows/records and highest
workload achieved.
The program recognizes the database practitioners whose accomplishments are
advancing the boundaries of database size and power.

Complete results of the Winter Group survey can be found at:
http://www.wintercorp.com/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners.asp.

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More results:
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January 21, 2004

Dear [snip]
Department of Homeland Security
Acting Assistant Commissioner, Office of Information TechnologyBureau of
Customs and Border Protection1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20229

Dear [snip],
As the Automated Commercial System (ACS) celebrates its 20th Anniversary,
the e-Customs Partnership (eCP) would like to extend sincere
congratulations to you and the entire Office of Information Technology.
This milestone represents a tremendous accomplishment.

Since the inception of ACS in 1984, the system has facilitated dramatic
advances in productivity, selectivity, and enforcement, transporting
Customs through markedly different eras. Based upon Census statistics, the
period from 1984 to 2002 saw a staggering increase in the volume of trade
imports from approximately $331 billion to $1.2 trillion, equating to well
over 300% growth. Originally designed for a 15-year lifecycle, ACS remains
in operation today, enabling CBP to process vast amounts of information,
and carry out extensive organizational operations. ACS is widely
recognized as the one of the world’s most sophisticated, large-scale
business processing systems.

ACS has overcome many challenges over the past two decades. When ACS was
first launched, your organization brought the Trade community on board by
providing new functionality that delivered compelling benefits. In more
recent years, OIT ushered Customs into the 21st Century by moving ACS
through Y2K in a remarkably seamless transition. Upon entering into the
new millennium, OIT successfully navigated the trials of brown-outs and
hardware shortages, implementing an ACS Life Support program to help the
system maintain its outstanding performance record.

The eCP has great respect for the foresight, dedication, and perseverance
of all those who have contributed to the success of ACS. In addition, we
are extremely grateful for the effort your team has invested to partner
with us in the development of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE).
We look forward to the continued growth of our collaborative relationship.
All of you can take great pride in your contributions to a system that has
provided 20 years of exceptional service to our nation. On behalf of the
e-Customs Partnership, we would like to take the opportunity to express our
admiration for you and your team’s commitment to supporting the mission.

Best regards,
[snip}
  

-- 
Charlie Hottel
chottel@cpcug.org

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