Archiving of applications: this will take place in our production environment between Saturday 28 and Tuesday 31 October and will result in applications being flagged as ‘old’. Affected applications will no longer be available in the usual ODBC-Link and XML-Link tables and will allow us to prepare for the generation of HESA data. Deferred applications and applications that have had a delayed confirmation functionality (DCF) decision applied will not be affected.
Clear down of HESA data: in preparation for the delivery of data for your 2023 cycle statutory HESA return we will be clearing down the data from the 2022 cycle in our production environment. This will take place on 8 November and when completed you will no longer be able to access HESA data for the 2022 cycle. A flat file of this data can be requested via our self-service support portal.
Deployment of system changes for statutory HESA data return. The changes made for the 2023 cycle statutory HESA data return are being deployed on Saturday 4 November between 08:00 and 23:59. During this time the following services will be unavailable:
- ODBC-Link
- XML-Link
- Web-Link
Details on the changes can be found in the technical briefing document on UCAS.com