The MCIS Technical Services staff plans to make the VM/CMS system unavailable from 8am-10am on Saturday, Dec. 17, for an operating system upgrade and to remove version 5.18 SAS System software. This Saturday falls between the last day of finals/fall commencement & the Monday final grades are due. While the system is unavailable, the following VM services will also be unavailable: 1) access to Miami Root 2) access to the administrative mainframe via 'dial VTAM' 3) mail forwarding from VM userids to other addresses Technical Services staff consider the upgrade to be equivalent to a maintenance application and expect no visible change in client interfaces. Please direct any questions to Lisa Ehrichs at [log in to unmask] (x6231) or Steve Moore at [log in to unmask] (x1452). Information regarding SAS 5.18 currently apprears in the mu.sas UseNet NetNews newsgroup (and the MU-SAS LISTSERV list). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Lisa Ehrichs, Data Support Analyst Voice: (513)529-6231 Miami Computing & Information Services Fax: 529-1705 22 Hughes Laboratories Mail: [log in to unmask] Miami University Oxford, OH 45056