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Maintenance windows

Maintenance windows

To ensure that IBM OpenPages® as a Service environments are up to date with the latest software and security patches, routine maintenance windows are required.

The schedule is as follows:

Schedule of maintenance windows by region
Region Schedule
AWS US East (Northern Virginia) Sunday 11 PM - Monday 7 AM EST (Monday 4 AM - 12 PM UTC)
AWS Europe (Frankfurt) Monday 8 PM - Tuesday 4 AM CET (Monday 6 PM - Tuesday 2 AM UTC)
IBM Cloud Sydney (au-syd) Monday 9 PM - Tuesday 5 AM AEST (Monday 11 AM - 7 PM UTC)
IBM Cloud Dallas (us-south) Sunday 11 PM - Monday 7 AM CDT (Monday 4 AM - 12 PM UTC)
IBM Cloud Frankfurt (eu-de) Monday 8 PM - Tuesday 4 AM CET (Monday 6 PM - Tuesday 2 AM UTC)

The maintenance window might be extended in some circumstances, for example due to public holidays.

During the maintenance window, the IBM OpenPages® as a Service system is available for use, except for background or asynchronous operations such as the following operations:

  • FastMap import
  • Import configuration
  • Export configuration
  • Reporting schema operations
  • Object Reset operations
  • Large volume copy, move, and associate operations
  • Start workflow operations for applicable objects from the administrative page
  • Start calculation operations for applicable objects from the administrative page
  • ObjectManager load, dump, batch, and validate operations from the IBM Cloud® command-line plugin
  • Scheduler jobs
  • Questionnaire program launch operations

The underlying infrastructure, relational database system, and application server pod are restarted with patches and updates during the maintenance window.

For information about the overall status of the service, see the Status Overview page.