• NIH’s Year 2000 testing domain is available. * §
• SILK RACF is available for all registered users. *
• WYLBUR’s new, enhanced—Year 2000 compliant—date functions are in effect. *
• MVS &PUBLIC data sets are available via SILK Web. *
• "Web of Science" and "Porpoise" are available for searches in the scientific literature. These powerful, Web-based search facilities replace some of the functions of NIH Gopher, which has retired.
• Control-T is now production. *
• The NIHCU node is no longer part of BITNET.
• MVS North system operations coverage is now 24 hours, 7 days a week. §
• TMS Version 5.2 is now production. §
• MVS North system now has access to SILK Web technology. §
• Enterprise Oracle licenses
can still be purchased from DCRT for a variety
of platforms.
| March 31 | • DCRT support for the ADSM DOS client used for NBARS (NIH Backup and
Recovery Service will be discontinued.
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| • The Convex system (coil.nih.gov) will be decommissioned. The system
and users’ scientific applications will be running on newer, faster SGI
Challenge and SGI PowerChallenge computers.
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| April 6 | • TCPaccess is scheduled to become the production version. |
| • PC/TCP and OnNet 32-bit upgrades will be available on the Web. |
| June 14 | Several WYLBUR commands will be retired. Enter Training and Enter Eguide
facilities have Web equivalents
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| June 30 | Oracle will drop support for SQL*Forms 3.0. §
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| August 3 | TSPRINT will completely replace EPS network printing. *
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| August 9 | WYLBUR’s Enter Sponsor will no longer be available. *
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| October 1 | Charges begin for applications using Disaster Recovery Services. *
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• The MVS/ESA operating
systems for both the MVS North and South systems will
be upgraded to OS/390 (Version
2, Release 4)—a level that is Year 2000 compliant. * §
• The MVS system’s Oracle will be upgraded to 7.3. §
* South MVS System
§ North MVS System