Our staff consists of 10 full time and 4 student employees. Operations handles the scheduling, processing, and printing of all batch programs run on the mainframe. Operations is also responsible for ensuring that online systems are available for customers all over campus and taking the necessary action when they are not. We create and maintain schedules of all production batch programs that are used for nightly processing.
Information is stored on disk or cartridges and used as input for the various batch programs.
The cartridges are controlled by tape management software that allows us to set retention dates and keep track of that information. Since Operations is the only area at University Computing that is staffed 24 hours a day we take care of the emergencies that may arise during off hours. We are responsible for assessing the situation and taking the appropriate action such as contacting other UC staff as needed.