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
ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS
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
ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS
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)
ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS
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
ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS
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
ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS
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
ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS
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
ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS
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)
ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS
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
ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS
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
ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS
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