Email, MyUNIverse, WebCT, & ResQPortal will be unavailable starting at 11:59pm Friday evening, February 8, 2008, for up to two hours for system maintenance.
The following systems and their associated applications will be impacted:
Due to system maintenance scheduled for Saturday, March 15, MyUNIverse and HEAT will be unavailable from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The following systems will be unavailable from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday, March 16: e-mail (mail will still be received), MyUNIverseCT (formerly WebCT), MyUNIverse, MEMFIS, and many other smaller distributed systems.
In order to adjust our SAN (Storage Area Network) to support the new imaging project we have scheduled the following maintenance to occur Sunday, March 16 from 7am - 1pm.
Due to system maintenance scheduled for Saturday, March 15, MyUNIverse and HEAT will be unavailable from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The following systems will be unavailable from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday, March 16: e-mail (mail will still be received), MyUNIverseCT (formerly WebCT), MyUNIverse, MEMFIS, and many other smaller distributed systems.
The production database WEBP will be unavailable on Saturday, March 15th beginning at 8:00am through 5:00pm. The outage is necessary to upgrade the Oracle database to version 10.2.0.3. This outage will impact the following applications:
My UNIverse
HEAT
AD_ASTRA
Residence applications
BALANCE
UNI ID card system
LIB_PROD systems
ASCC
These databases work with the following applications: Ad Astra, Balance, Equitrac, Heat, Library and the My Universe applications.
The upgrade will take approximately 6-8 hours to complete. Please let me know if you have questions about the upgrade or the proposed dates for the upgrades.
Saturday, May 24, 2008, ITS will be performing system software maintenance on our central IBM mainframe system. Affected systems include Admissions, Registration, Public Safety, Residence, Cashiering, Financial Aid, Web services for registering, etc. The systems will not be available starting at 8:00 a.m.
If you need additional assistance please contact the Computer Consulting Center (CCC) at (319) 273-5555. The CCC is located in Room 36 ITTC Building (old East Gym). Consultants are available to provide hands-on assistance daily Monday through Friday during University Business Hours.
On Saturday May 24, 2008, ITS will be installing a new software operating system for our central IBM mainframe system, which will affect the following applications:
Admissions
Registration
Public Safety
Residence
Cashiering
Financial Aid
All Web services for registering, instant transcripts, degree audits, etc., applications.
The systems will not be available starting early Saturday morning with completion anticipated sometime Saturday afternoon.
If you need additional assistance please contact the Computer Consulting Center (CCC) at (319) 273-5555. The CCC is located in Room 36 ITTC Building (old East Gym). Consultants are available to provide hands-on assistance daily Monday through Friday.
during University Business Hours.
ITS will be applying operating system patches beginning at 6am on Saturday July 12, 2008. Maintenance is expected to be complete by 10am.
The following systems and services will be unavailable during the maintenance window:
CatID
Campus E-Mail (Collab)
MEMFIS
MyUniverse
WebCT
Student Web Registration (ResQPortal)
Student Registration (Mainframe)
Discoverer
Webfocus
COD XML System
ResNet Registration
Phone Book (all J2EE applications)
Heat
Library systems
If you need additional assistance please contact the Computer Consulting Center (CCC) at (319) 273-5555. The CCC is located in Room 36 ITTC Building (old East Gym). Consultants are available to provide hands-on assistance daily Monday through Friday during University Business Hours.
The Facility Services message below explains that the electricity will be shut off in the Curris Business Building August 2, 2008. In preparation, Email, WebCT, and MyUNIverse will be shut down at 5:30 a.m. and all computer systems in the computer room in Curris will be shut down at 6:30 a.m. This includes the mainframe (QWS3270/IBM Mainframe) application transactions (SI12, SI70, etc.) include Cashiering, Admissions, Accounts Receivable, Financial Aid, Registrar's, Public Safety, Residence, and all Web services for registering, instant transcripts, degree audits, parking permits, etc. Campus access to the internet will be maintained during this outage.
The systems will come back online once power becomes available and we expect all the various systems to become available by mid-afternoon.
If you need additional assistance please contact the Computer Consulting Center (CCC) at (319) 273-5555. The CCC is located in Room 36 ITTC Building (old East Gym). Consultants are available to provide hands-on assistance daily Monday through Friday during University Business Hours.
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UNI Information Technology Services is planning the integration of mainframe authentication with the CatID Central Authentication System effective at 7:30 a.m. Monday, August 11, 2008. Mainframe QWS3270 authentication (password and userid) is required for using transactions such as SIF5, SR05, RS04, SI12, FVSM, PS19, CVBH, etc.
After this change, all users with mainframe access (QWS3270) will use the same username and password to access mainframe transactions that they use to login to the UNI Email, MyUNIverse, and WebCT systems.
This initiative is part of a larger project to reduce the number of different methods of authentication required at UNI.
In March 2007, the first step in that project was to establish your CatID username and password with the Collaboration Suite email system. The second phase was implemented in May 2007 to bring MyUNIverse into CatID authentication and the learning management system (WebCT) was added in January 2008.
If you need additional assistance please contact the Computer Consulting Center (CCC) at (319) 273-5555. The CCC is located in Room 36 ITTC Building (old East Gym). Consultants are available to provide hands-on assistance daily Monday through Friday during University Business Hours.
IBM will be applying hardware maintenance on the mainframe CPU December 7 from 10:00 a.m. to approximately 1:00 p.m. The IBM mainframe (QWS3270) application transactions (SI12, SI70, RS04, SI19, CVBH, etc.) which would include Cashiering, Admissions, Accounts Receivable, Financial Aid, Registrar's, Public Safety, Residence, and all Web services for registering, instant transcripts, degree audits, parking permits, etc. will be affected by the outage.
Barb Charley will notify all IBM mainframe users by e-mail when the mainframe system is available after the above outages.
If you need additional assistance please contact the Computer Consulting Center (CCC) at (319) 273-5555. The CCC is located in Room 36 ITTC Building (formerly known as the East Gym). Consultants are available to provide hands-on assistance daily Monday through Friday during University Business Hours.
The Collaboration Suite team needs an estimated eight hour maintenance window to perform a database upgrade and increase space for email recovery, there will be an outage on Saturday, December 27, 2008 from 12:01 AM to 8:00 AM. This outage will affect *all* applications authenticating with CatID including E-Mail, MyUNIverse, eLearning (WebCT) and mainframe QWS3270 transactions.
All mainframe (QWS3270) application transactions (SI12, SI70, RS04, CVBH, SI19, etc), which includes Cashiering, Admissions, Accounts Receivable, Financial Aid, Registrar's, Public Safety, Residence and all Web services for registering, instant transcripts, degree audits, parking permits, etc.
If you need additional assistance please contact the Computer Consulting Center (CCC) at (319) 273-5555. The CCC is located in Room 36 ITTC Building (formerly known as the East Gym). Consultants are available to provide hands-on assistance daily Monday through Friday during University Business Hours.
Maintenance originally scheduled for Saturday, June 13 has been postponed until Saturday, June 20. The following systems and services will be unavailable during the maintenance window on June 20:
The Oracle database server requires a restart on Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 6:00 a.m. – 6:30 a.m. This will impact eLearning (Blackboard/WebCT) and WEBP (MyUNIverse portal) databases. The system will be available by 6:30 a.m.
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Due to hardware changes related to preparing for the new student system, all oracle based systems will be down Saturday 07/25/2009 from 7am - 10am, with the exception email will be down from 5AM to 10AM.
Email and CatID will be shut down for operating system and application patches, specifically to fix web based email client problems with regard to email attachments and timeout errors.
This will take a period of one hour Friday, August 7, starting at 10pm.
The administrative systems will shutdown at 8:00 P.M. for nightly processing and backups due to severe weather conditions.
The systems will return to production by 10:00 P.M. for overnight queries and updates.
The administrative systems will shutdown at 5:00 P.M. for nightly processing and backups due to severe weather conditions.
The systems will return to production by 7:00 P.M. for overnight queries and updates.
The UNI mainframe (student records and related applications) is
currently down. It appears as if it may be a hardware issue requiring a
service call and parts. If that is the case, it will be down for
several hours. Additional information will be provided as it becomes
available.
The service was corrected and the outage lasted less than one hour
Due to an unforeseen hardware problem this morning, we are running in an emergency state, and would like to reset to a normal mode of operating at 12:00 p.m (noon). for the mainframe (QWS3270) system, which include online transactions (SI12,SIF5,PS19,RS04,etc.) for the following departments: Admissions, Registration, Public Safety, Residence, Cashiering, Financial Aid, etc. Also included are web transactions such as registration, instant transcripts, and degree audits. The outage should not last more than 15 minutes.
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