We intend to upgrade Horizon over 12-13 Jan. This is a big upgrade so it will take awhile before everything is running smoothly. Please avoid running large reports Tuesday-Wednesday

Sunday 10 Jan – Horizon down 7pm-11pm for database checking
Monday 11 Jan – Library IT will be cleaning up unused collection codes etc.
Tuesday 12 Jan
4.00pm – All Horizon staff users except Lending Desks to log out. No reports to be run after this time
5.05pm – Everyone out of Horizon, the catalogue will be available after an hour but it will be slower than usual
After 9.00pm – Horizon will be down for 3 hours to run database checking
Wed 13 Jan
Horizon and the catalogue unavailable from 7.00am-11.30am. HIP (catalogue) will be upgraded while the custom views in Horizon are being fixed and staff test the Horizon upgrade. Library IT will run dayend.

Apart from Lending, Library staff should expect to have no access to Horizon from 4.00pm Tuesday to noon on Wednesday, and access for the remainder of Wednesday may be slow.

For users this will affect the catalogue, parts of the Library website that are dynamically created from Horizon and some Library applications such as interloans. While the catalogue will be available for large chunks of this upgrade, it will be going up and down without warning and when up will be slower than normal.

As we are upgrading Horizon, Sybase, HIP and Java, we need to do this upgrade when Library, SirsiDynix and ICTS staff are available so we will not be able to do it in the weekend as usual.

There is not a lot of immediate benefit in this upgrade but it does put us on the latest Sybase and Java versions which provided administrative and security benefits as the current version of Sybase is no longer supported.