Maine's Public Universities - University of Maine System

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Mainframe End of Service
Announcement

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This letter is to inform you of our plans for retiring the mainframe from service. You or your department have been identified as either having a mainframe userID or having tapes stored at the datacenter. Please carefully read the following information.

Migration of our administrative software applications (HR, Finance, Student Records, Student Financials and Financial Aid) from the mainframe to MaineStreet is nearly complete and we will be decommissioning the mainframe this year. It is important that you copy any programs, files and data you wish to save off the mainframe and tapes before it is turned off. Once the mainframe is turned off there will be no way to retrieve these data!  


Who this affects

If you now or have in the past used CMS, CICS, ISIS, HRIS, Financier, FAMS, FAST, Natural or Nomad, or if you have used Hummingbird or tn3270 software to connect to maine.maine.edu - then you are a mainframe user and this notice affects you.

What data you need to copy

Data that is stored in the enterprise level applications that were on the mainframe will be copied by ITS (formerly UNET or CAPS) and made available to functional offices. This will cover HR, Finance, Financial Aid, Student Records and Student Financials.

So individuals need to review personal, individual and departmental files, programs or data and copy data that should be preserved. These data may be held on mainframe disk or on tapes stored at the datacenter and can be transferred from the mainframe using FTP (file transfer protocol).

There are some help files for FTP and the mainframe at:

http://saturn.unet.maine.edu/unet/user/cmsdocs/cmschapt2.html#xfer
http://saturn.unet.maine.edu/unet/user/cmsdocs/xfer2.html

Important dates

May 1 -

By May 1, all departments who have mainframe users will receive a list of those ids. The department must designate which userIDs need continued service from the mainframe. All others will be inactivated July 1.

July 1 -

1) ID renewals must have been completed by departments and returned by this date.

2)A new pricing schedule with increased rates goes into effect. See chart below.

October 1 -

Second phase of new pricing schedule goes into effect. See chart below.

November 1 -

All functional systems on the mainframe with the exception of Financial Aid are closed. Mainframe access is suspended for all users except Financial Aid and ITS staff who are migrating functional data.

December 1 -

Financial Aid is closed. ITS staff will begin migration of Financial Aid data.

December 31, 2009

Mainframe is turned off and mainframe services cease.

We appreciate your patience and understanding as we go through this process. If you have questions about this process or your id, please contact us at operations@maine.edu or by calling 561-3557.

Mainframe Service Rates

* services not listed here are not scheduled to be changed as part of the mainframe end of service readiness