CCS News

JANUARY 22, 2010

FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Oracle/Unicode conversion in Test Environment status – during the past week the computer room staff has been working with Sirsi to begin QA of our Oracle/Unicode conversion. This week the Test Server was taken offline for special backups and Sirsi has been configuring our machines for the test. We will be running a test conversion of all bibliographic and other text-based files during the week of Jan 25. This test will not affect the Production Server and since the conversion is being done to an in-house machine, you should still be able to use the TEST server as you are accustomed to doing. A later step will test offline operation (and we will need your help for this part to generate Test Server data). We will let you know closer to the time of the second test. Providing our testing goes well, the actual conversion will occur sometime in April on the Production Server.

DATE CHANGE FOR MARCH PAS MEETING:
The March PAS meeting has been moved from the 18th to the 11th, still at NSLS.

CCS MEETING NEXT WEEK:

Wed., 1/27, 10:00, NSLS: Annual And Regular Governing Board Meeting