Infrastructure Systems & Services

Infrastructure Systems & Services is charged with support for the central servers operated by CIS. This support focuses primarily on the operating system and closely related utilities and programs.

The group is comprised of three teams and is led by Associate Director, Cheryl Cato, reporting to the Executive Director of CIS.

Database Services
The Database Services Group provides database administration and support services for Oracle, MS SQL Server, ADABAS, Natural, CICS, and a variety of MVS/OS390 applications.

Continuance and Mainframe Services 
The Continuance and Mainframe Services Group provides systems software support for the IBM z/OS operating system and subsystems. Reliability, availability, serviceability, security, ability to handle high transaction rates, maintenance of large amounts of data, and provisioning of full backup and recovery functions are the hallmark of this system. These functions are supported by the MVS teams in cooperation with the CIS Operations group.

Infrastructure Systems 
The Infrastructure Systems Group provides system administration, applications and system programming, and engineering support for a general access Unix computing resources available for use by all Texas A&M students, employees, faculty, and staff including those systems that support campus email and directory services. Also provided are publicly available www, ftp services, Usenet News, and Listserv services.