ITEC Newsletter
Volume 17, No. 1
March 18, 2009
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. HP
VMS/TRU64 License Paks Expiring
2. SunGard
Banner Support for Open VMS
3. Classic Metalink to be Retired
4. Oracle's Chronicle
5. Dell, SunGardHE, Oracle, ITEC POC
6. Newly
Hosted Institutions:
7. New Staff at ITEC
1. HP
VMS/TRU64 License Paks Expiring
Your HP VMS and TRU64
License Paks are about to expire on MARCH 31, 2009. The new license
paks are now in ITEC’s Web Getsoftware. Please have your site
license manager request the license paks:
http://www.itec.suny.edu/scsys/getsoftware
HP Alpha Software Offerings or
Third Party/Oracle Offerings – Alpha LICPAKS31DEC09
OR
Third Party / Oracle Offerings –
for the TRU64 License Paks -- PAKS09_TAR; expiration December 31,
2009
Submitted by Wayne Reling (Wayne.Reling@itec.suny.edu)
2.
SunGard Banner
Support for Open VMS
Our friends at SICAS sent us two important notices regarding Banner
on OpenVMS. They are below in their entirety:
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Banner
UDC Customers:
SunGard Higher Education is planning to de-support Banner 7.x on
September 1, 2010. Please use this information and the information
provided in the Unified Product Calendar (available for download on
the Customer Support Center) to make the necessary project plans for
upgrading to the Banner 8.x Unified Product Release. Should you
require assistance in upgrading to Banner 8.x, we encourage you to
contact your SunGard Higher Education Account Manager to discuss
possible Banner Upgrade Support services.
You will continue to have the ActionLine support and
maintenance-release support in addition to what is outlined in the
product calendar for the Banner 7.x products through September 1,
2010. After that date, all ActionLine support and maintenance
releases for versions 7.x will terminate.
If you are a customer outside of the United States, your local
solution centers will issue specific information regarding the
phasing out of the support for the statutory localizations
compatible with Banner 7.x and Banner 7.x dependent applications.
Although the de-support date for Banner 7.x is more than 19 months
away, we encourage you to plan your upgrade to the Banner 8.x
Unified Product Release as soon as possible so that you can take
advantage of the functionality and the continuity it provides across
the unified digital campus. You will be hearing success stories from
our Banner 8 Unified Product Release early adopters in the coming
months and at Summit.
We are also targeting the first half of 2010 for release of the
Banner 9 Unified Product Release. We will provide more detail at
this year’s Summit in March, and perhaps sooner. And remember, you
can always refer to the Unified Product Calendar, updated monthly on
the Customer Support Center, for information about future releases.
If you have any questions regarding the Banner 7.x de-support plans,
please contact the ActionLine.
Regards,
Jack Kramer
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Dear Banner Customers,
I’m writing to inform you that SunGard Higher Education is planning
to de-support the Banner database running on OpenVMS. After
researching current and planned customer usage and evaluating
SunGard Higher Education’s ability to provide technical currency on
the OpenVMS operating system, we decided to discontinue support in
order to use our resources more efficiently within the Banner
Unified Digital Campus.
You will continue to have ActionLine support through the life of
Banner 8.x. After the de-support date of Banner 8.x, to be announced
sometime in the future, all support for the Banner database running
on OpenVMS will terminate. There are no plans to support the Banner
9.x database running on OpenVMS.
Although the de-support date for the Banner database running on
OpenVMS is several years away, we want to ensure that you experience
a smooth transition and we encourage you to start planning today for
your move to a new operating system. To that end, we are working
with HP to help you leverage the latest HP technology for use with
the Banner Unified Digital Campus. The Banner 8.x database will be
fully supported to run on Integrity with OpenVMS, just as it is now
with HP-UX and Linux. This provides you the flexibility to move to a
more cost effective platform, leverage Banner 8's rich
functionality, and retain OpenVMS for the timeline described or move
to HP-UX or Linux today.
If you have any questions regarding the Banner OpenVMS de-support
plans, please contact your account manager.
Regards,
Alan Hansen
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3. Classic Metalink to Be Retired
From Oracle:
Later this year, Oracle will retire the Classic MetaLink support
portal and provide a single support interface through My Oracle
Support. Be prepared for the upcoming changes. Review Document
784634.1 for important information about My Oracle Support technical
requirements.
I would urge us all to start using the new 'flash based' interface
and make use of the 'feedback' link to apprise Oracle of any issues
you have so that they can address these before the classic interface
disappears.
Submitted by Dan Brint (Dan.Brint@itec.suny.edu)
4. Oracle's Chronicle
SUNY's
Oracle sales team has been kind enough to forward us copies of their
'Chronicle publication. We will endeavor to include future copies in
upcoming ITEC newsletters.
November 2008
December 2008
January 2009
February 2009
March 2009
Submitted by Dan Brint (Dan.Brint@itec.suny.edu)
5. Dell, SunGardHE, Oracle, ITEC POC
SUNY ITEC has engaged with Dell, SungardHE and Oracle on another
proof-of-concept. This one is based upon use of Oracle Virtual
Machine as the virtualization enabler at all tiers of the
application stack. ITEC will be presenting on this project at
SunGard Summit and will be making results available once the effort
is complete.
Submitted
by Dan Brint (Dan@itec.suny.edu)
6. Newly Hosted Institutions:
ITEC
is pleased to welcome the following new institutions to our
environment as we deliver remote and /or hosted services:
University Center for Academic Workforce and Development (UCAWD) and SUNY IT.
7. New Staff
at ITEC
Please join us in welcoming two
new staff members to ITEC:
Deepa Brown is an MS SQL Server DBA and brings with her many years
of experience from the corporate world, most recently at GE Digital
Energy and GE MDS. Deepa is working towards her M.S. in Information
Technology at RIT and has a M.A. in Teaching French as a foreign
language from the Universite de Rouen, France. She also has a B.S.
in Computer Science from St. Ann’s College in Hyderabad, India.
Deepa is supporting the Angel Learning Environment hosted by ITEC.
Jon Alessandrello joins us from SUNY IT and will be applying his
years of experience in support of our Unix environment. Jon is
(amongst other things) also a member of our Grid Control adoption
team - which is pushing forth with delivery of a quality
reporting/monitoring infrastructure for ITEC. Jon has a B.S. in
Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology from SUNY IT and an
A.S. in Electrical Technology from Dutchess Community College.
Submitted by Barbara Boquard (Barb@itec.suny.edu
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Buffalo State College
