Please make a note and inform your appropriate staff that card swipe readers will not work from 1:30 PM to 2:00 PM on Thursday, January 5, 2006. During this time, a maintanence upgrade will be performed to fix several bugs reported related to Optim 9.2. While OneCard server is down, all of card swipe readers will remain off-line and all access to Optim (Krell) will be restricted.
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* POS readers (cash registers) and activity readers (guard desk swipe readers) will work from the off-line status without validating transactions and store them in their local memory, ie readers will display “TRANSACTION ACCEPTED” instead of “TRANSACTION VALID.” Once readers are back on-line, the off-line transactions will be downloaded automatically to the system.
* Value Transfer Stations, vending readers, sentry readers (turnstiles), and laundry center readers will not accept any transactions while they are off-line.
* Bookstore interface (Bookstore) and equitrac reader interface (Library) will not process any transactions during this time.
* SSOL Dining Dollars and FlexAccount deposits won’t be processed until the system is back on-line; however students can still request deposits on-line.

We will notify you when the upgrade is completed. Please contact me if you have any concerns or questions regarding to this upgrade.

Thank you.

Byungjae Kim
Assistant Director, MIS
Housing and Dining, Columbia University
212-854-8644

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