Early notification of essential Unity database update taking place 27 January, 1am

December 31, 2020

Please be aware for early visibility that there is an essential update in Unity taking place in the early hours of Wednesday 27 January in order for our supporting vendor Cerner to apply the latest oracle day light saving time zone conversion updates to the Unity databases.  This will result in Unity being unavailable and is required to ensure continued Unity functionality.

This work is scheduled to begin at 1am and should be completed by 3am on Wednesday 27 January.

This activity will result in 2 hours full Unity planned down time and will require all departments to revert to business continuity plans and utilise 724 boxes.  This is because the update requires a number of database cycles and restarts to take place in order to apply the change.

We will of course provide further reminders with more details to ensure all departments are fully aware of action required to accommodate this over the coming weeks.  

In the meantime please do call the 24 hour IT service desk if you have any further queries on ext 4050 or 0121 507 4050 for home workers.