AKE 81 - FACTS AND STATISTICS

Report prepared immediately after the event

Machine time:	1300 hours on ME29 – 35
Senior analyst / Programmers man/weeks:	62
Other Programmers – man/weeks:	26

Design work started in Feb. 81, programming ; in March, testing in mid-Aparil. Everyti~ing was operational by beginning of July. Operators were trained during July, cup finals were August 15th and 16th, for 3 hours each day.

Number of programs written (TP programs between 1500 – 2100 COBOL source lines)	60 (20 TP programs + 40 batch)
Number of various parameter sets written	40 (including DDE format programs)

Configuration

· ME29 – 35/2, 512 Mbyte

· 4 x MD5 20 disc drives ( 2 drives actually used)

· 1 x PBS 720 line printer

· 2 x matrix printers

· 24 x workstation

· 1 x 7502 remote terminal with 1 x VT and 1 x HCP

Distribution of the terminals

Computer control room	- 4 workstations + PBS on the first day - 4 workstations + P8S + 7502 with 2xVT and l x HCP on the second day
Stadium	- 6 workstations
Call room	- 1 workstation
Stadium semaphore	- 1 matrix printer
TV	- 2 workstations
Press centre (stadium)	-1 workstation - 1 matrix printer
Press centre (in the town)	- 7502 remote terminal controller with 1 x VT and 1 x HCP (during the first day)

Software used

· TME 30 + M.AC

· 2903 COBOL

· MTS

· DDE

People involved in design and running the system

Consultant on athletics:

Mr. Zoran Vrbanac, secretary of Athletic federation of Croati.a.

Project management design and programming (TP and batch):

Mr. Radomir Vukina, Mladost, support manager (Zagreb area)

Message router and TP programming, TME settings:

Mr. Milan Matić., Mladast, support manager (Belgrade area)

TP programming supervision of junior programmers:

Mrs. Mila Mikić, ICL Yugosiavia

Testing, batch and TP programs, training and supervision of the operations staff:

Mr. Darko Špehar, Mladost, DP department

Testing batch programs:

Mrs . Ljilja Obradović, Mr. Božo Tojagić, Mr. Tugomi.r Popović , Miss Ksenija Krnajski - programmers from Mladost DP department, just back from their COBOL course (all are experienced ICL System Ten users, but it was their first contact with ME29).

0perations:

Console operator: Mr. Andrija Habrka, from Mledost DP department, who was also in charge of all admin. work during the AKE project)

Terminal operators:

12 data prep. operators from various users

People involved in hardware:

Project management:

Mr. Veljko Mudrinić, Mladost, maintenance supervisor

Engineers:

Mr. Denis Lobo, ICL

Mr. Rade Matović, Mr. Ivan Špelić, Mr. Duško Savatović, Mr. Branislav Filipović, Mr. Srećko Brezak, - all from Mladast maintenance

Import administration:

Mrs. Nada Gol, Mladost consignment store

Engineering coordination in ICL:

Mr. Allan Taylor

Overall management for the computer project:

Mr. Branko Sviben, assistant director Mladost IZ

Management for all Mladost operations:

Mr. Živko Marušić , director, Mladost admin.

Major obstacles:

· importing the ME29

· finding temporary locations

· moving and installing the machine 3 times

· a nasty software bug in TME

We had to Iearn how to:

· write COBOL programs (batch and TP)
(Mila and Milan knew how to write batch programs, other had not known even that)

· write MTS router

· use ME29

· use MAC

· use all rules for athletics

We started to work with stolen manuals, some of them were replaced with ones properly ordered, some are still missing.