I don't know how ISV's monitor the IBM ISV center activity, but IBM's Zxplore student education website (url below) which is also hosted at the ISV center posts a warning about "maintenance" outages starting the Wednesday or Thursday before the "maintenance" weekends.
The message on that website today says: DATA CENTER UNAVAILABLE SUNDAY NOV. 20TH 14:30-20:30 UTC So it *should* be back online by 3:30PM EST HTH Peter Zxplore url: https://ibmzxplore.influitive.com/ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2022 12:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Anyone know why IBM ISV center is down? They are down every other Sunday from roughly 9:30 to 15:30 US Central time. I don't think they have ever said "it will be exactly every other Sunday" but it pretty much always is exactly every other Sunday (including today). I would guess the reason is something like "routine maintenance." Why do they have to take z/OS down to apply maintenance? I don't know, but they have a non-standard configuration in which system volumes are shared across VM guests. The impact on US-based ISVs is minimal but I can see how if you were in Asia or perhaps Israel it would be somewhat inconvenient. Charles -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
