May 9, 2007

Extended Outage on Production System 4 Scheduled for May 20th

The NIH Data Center is in the process of upgrading the mainframe operating system to version 1.7 of z/OS (see Titan News articles of August 31, 2006 and April 9, 2007). Production system 9 (which runs DB2) has already been successfully upgraded.

On May 6th, during the scheduled service outage to upgrade production system 4 (which runs NIHTSO), we ran into problems and had to abort the upgrade. Now everything has been fixed and we are ready to fully upgrade system 4 to the new operating system.

Therefore, we have rescheduled the update of system 4 for Sunday, May 20, 2007. On that day, there will be a complete service outage of approximately 6 hours from 12:01 am to 6:00 am while we install z/OS version 1.7 on production system 4.

Need help or have questions?

If you need help or have any questions regarding the move to the new processor, please contact the NIH Help Desk at 301-496-HELP (301-496-4357), 866-319-4357 (toll free), or 301-496-8294 (TTY).