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System's
Management
K-S
Migration
StorageTek
Tape
Robot
Call Centre
Interface
MQ Series
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In November 2001, began working with the system's management team at
Credit Card Services (CCS) department of Interpay, Utrecht .
The team looked
after 3 Compaq Himalaya S-Series systems. These had only recently been
migrated from
several K series systems. Assisted in completion of any outstanding K-S migration
activities.
The Credit card processing application ( CPMS) ran on a 4 cpu S70000
system, running NSK G06.13. A second identical system provided fallback
and test facilites, and a third S7400 was used for addition
testing/training. All 3 machines could be linked via Expand, over the
in-house TCP/IP network. The application ran primarily in Batch mode, but
did incorporate a real-time interface for call centre personel to
make enquiries on the credit card database.
All system backups, and TMF on-line dumps were done using a 4 drive StorageTek
Nearline tape robot. This was configured via TCP/IP, with 2 drives allocated to
the Compaq production system and 2 drives to the fallback/test
system. Production usage was approximately 160 tapes per day.
Call Centre enquiry screens were managed by an NT broker system,
and connected to the S74000 Himalaya databases, and VAX/VMS
databases via a set
of MQ-Series application interfaces, written in Cobol, over TCP/IP links. Was responsible for monitoring, supporting, re-configuration and troubleshooting the
MQ-Series infra-structure between the the S74000 Himalaya production
system and the NT broker. Also responsible for the setup of similar
uitwijk and various test MQ
environments on the 'fallback' Himalaya system.
Another set of enquiry screens were connect to the S74000 Himalaya
database via a set of RSC processes..
The Credit card processing application ( CPMS) project reduced in scope in June 2002 and the support team was
reduced in size from 4 members to one. As the remaining person, Tony was assigned
the duties of all other
ex-team members. Overall responsibilities now covered System's
management, Application and Database management, Security administration,
daily troubleshooting and out-of-hours stanby.
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