Spring 2016 Mainframe Updates

NWRDC’s annual mainframe disaster recovery exercise was successfully conducted on April 22, 2016 through April 23, 2016. The recent conversion to the Luminex Virtual Tape facility allowed for the entire tape library to be available for the exercise, and significantly reduced the length of time for the restore process.

Staff continues the installation and configuration of z/OS 2.1. An expected conversion date has not yet been set.

Shadow Direct software has been upgraded to the latest release. The upgrading of Shadow Web is in progress and should be completed by May 16, 2016. Control M will also soon be upgraded to the latest release.

All mainframe information and documentation will be reposted to the NWRDC website in the next few weeks. Several items now require a mainframe ID and password to access. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

NWRDC Maintenance and Meetings Calendar

Tomorrow

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, October 2nd
- Start time: 02:00am
- End time: 06:00am
- Mainframe system time begins at 2:00AM Monday mornings. The system is shutdown to a minimal state to allow for a pristine snapshot of all DASD volumes. Maintenance and upgrades are typically scheduled during this time as well. An IPL is performed before production services are made available by 6:00AM.
- Click for details on Google calendar.

Wednesday, October 4th

NWRDC BaaS Maintenance in Atlanta
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Wednesday, October 4th
- Start time: 09:00am
- End time: 08:00pm
- Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC) would like to inform you upcoming BaaS maintenanceService(s): Atlanta Backup and Recovery ServicesMaintenance Start Time: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 0900 (ET)Maintenance End Time: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 2000 (ET)Service Availability: Atlanta BaaS Service InterruptionDetails: We will be performing a hardware upgrade to the Data Domain in Atlanta. During the maintenance, this Atlanta Data Domain and Atlanta Backup and Recovery Services will be offline, and there will be no backup or recovery activities possible for the Atlanta Avamar or Atlanta Networker during the upgrade. We will make our best effort to keep the outage as short as possible. We thank you for your patience as we work to improve Backup and Recovery services at the data center. Questions?We are here to help. If you experience issues after the maintenance has concluded or have any questions, please contact the NWRDC Operations Team at (850) 645-3500, it_support@nwrdc.fsu.edu.
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Friday, October 6th

NWRDC Policy Board Meeting
- Calendar: NWRDC Meetings
- Start date: Friday, October 6th
- Start time: 02:00pm
- End time: 04:00pm
- Meeting of the NWRDC Policy Board. If you are interested in attending this meeting, please contact kate_wasson@nwrdc.fsu.edu.
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Monday, October 9th

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, October 9th
- Start time: 02:00am
- End time: 06:00am
- Mainframe system time begins at 2:00AM Monday mornings. The system is shutdown to a minimal state to allow for a pristine snapshot of all DASD volumes. Maintenance and upgrades are typically scheduled during this time as well. An IPL is performed before production services are made available by 6:00AM.
- Click for details on Google calendar.

Monday, October 16th

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, October 16th
- Start time: 02:00am
- End time: 06:00am
- Mainframe system time begins at 2:00AM Monday mornings. The system is shutdown to a minimal state to allow for a pristine snapshot of all DASD volumes. Maintenance and upgrades are typically scheduled during this time as well. An IPL is performed before production services are made available by 6:00AM.
- Click for details on Google calendar.

Monday, October 23rd

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, October 23rd
- Start time: 02:00am
- End time: 06:00am
- Mainframe system time begins at 2:00AM Monday mornings. The system is shutdown to a minimal state to allow for a pristine snapshot of all DASD volumes. Maintenance and upgrades are typically scheduled during this time as well. An IPL is performed before production services are made available by 6:00AM.
- Click for details on Google calendar.

Monday, October 30th

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, October 30th
- Start time: 02:00am
- End time: 06:00am
- Mainframe system time begins at 2:00AM Monday mornings. The system is shutdown to a minimal state to allow for a pristine snapshot of all DASD volumes. Maintenance and upgrades are typically scheduled during this time as well. An IPL is performed before production services are made available by 6:00AM.
- Click for details on Google calendar.

Monday, November 6th

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, November 6th
- Start time: 02:00am
- End time: 06:00am
- Mainframe system time begins at 2:00AM Monday mornings. The system is shutdown to a minimal state to allow for a pristine snapshot of all DASD volumes. Maintenance and upgrades are typically scheduled during this time as well. An IPL is performed before production services are made available by 6:00AM.
- Click for details on Google calendar.

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