Tomorrow, Tuesday 11th April, we are upgrading the systems on which Horizon runs. This is quite a major change – we are moving to a newer version of the Sybase database and Horizon will be running from a new Server.

There will be some disruption although the time-consuming processes will occur before we open

First thing on Tuesday, there will be no Horizon access and the Catalogue will be down. If things go smoothly, I’m hoping that the Self Check machines will be running by 8.30 am.  If you try logging into Horizon you will get error messages.

Your staff machines will need a file updated to connect to the new server. This is scheduled by ITS to happen automatically, but we can’t test this.

Reports will not run until Margaret has amended some of her scripts. This may be quick – but again it is something we haven’t been able to test.

The Catalogue may be running by 9 am but will need to be reindexed which will take a couple more hours.

We’ll provide more details on the day, as events unfold.

Thanks, Peter K