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---- OPERATIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS ----1. The annual holiday moratorium on changes to the CCS Production Suite will begin on Wednesday, 17 December 2008. With the transition to the IBM Power6 system beginning in January 2009, the moratorium will continue through approximately 1 July 2009.
As usual, changes to resolve operational problems will be accepted throughout the moratorium.
Our intention is to implement all CCS related RFCs by Tuesday, 16 December. Any outstanding CCS related RFCs remaining after that date will be returned to the users for testing and validation on the Power 6 system.
2. NCEP Central Operations (NCO) is preparing the WWB 5th floor swing-space for NCWCP testing. The WWB swing-space will be provisioned with a scaled-down version of the NCWCP data center. NCWCP future tenants will use the swing-space to test operational applications and processes in preparation for the WWB-NCWCP transition.
The overview of the schedule is:* Nov – Dec 2008: NCO provisions WWB 5th floor swing-space with a scaled-down version of the NCWCP data center and NCWCP LAN * Jan – Apr 2009: NCWCP future tenants test operational applications and processes using the WWB swing-space * May – Sep 2009: NCO leads the IT provisioning for the NCWCP IT infrastructure
* Sep - Dec 2009: Tenants move to NCWCP, vacate WWB3. NCO is scheduling a 2-hour window twice a week for testing revisions to the RFC application software. Testing will be conducted on Tuesday and Wednesday from 0600L to 0800L beginning on Tuesday, 23 September 2008. All users should avoid using the Request for Change (RFC) application during this time or risk the possibility of losing or replicating data.
4. Upcoming major changes to NCEP's production suite and details on any product or timing changes associated with upcoming implementations can be viewed at the following website:
http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/changes/Test data for each of these proposed changes should be available six weeks prior to implementation. Anyone wishing to receive formal notice of the final pre-implementation testing and the opportunity to provide feedback on the proposed changes can subscribe to the Model Evaluation mailing list via:
https://lstsrv.ncep.noaa.gov/mailman/listinfo/ncep.list.modelevalinfo5. Maintenance of subscriptions to the Scheduled Operational Changes and Upgrades mailing list can be performed via the following website:
https://lstsrv.ncep.noaa.gov/mailman/listinfo/ncep.list.rfcmemo
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