Maintenance

ALL SPOCs, Technical Contacts and CAD Contacts:

The California Department of Technology (CDT) has scheduled maintenance of the SAFE Cloud service. The maintenance begins on Saturday, March 28, 2026, at 8:00 PM and concludes on Sunday, March 29, 2026, at 2:00 AM. The activity will cause interruptions in the SAFE Cloud service. Some Business Objects (BO) reports will fail to send, or automated scripts may fail to retrieve from SAFE during this scheduled maintenance.
 

Action Required

All users should logoff of the SAFE Cloud service prior to the start of the stated maintenance timeframe. Please check on your scheduled BO SAFE reports and automated FTP scripts. If needed, re-run the reports and scripts.

Contact the IBM Help Desk (800-428-8268) to report any issues with your Business Objects content in SAFE.

All SPOCs and Technical Contacts: 

March 16, 2026 UPDATE: This is a reminder that there is a CWS-CARES RFA outage window scheduled for Thursday, March 19, 2026. Beginning at 5:00 PM and concluding at 8:00 PM, the RFA Greenfield production environment will be unavailable while it transitions to a secure FedRAMP (Okta) environment.

After the transition activities, users should clear their web browser cache before logging in to the Okta RFA Greenfield production environment. For guidance on how to clear the web browser cache for Chrome or Edge, please follow the steps provided here: Clear cache & cookies - Computer - Google Account Help

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Over the past half-year, we have actively coordinated and worked with the various stakeholder organizations to perform the transition to a secure FedRAMP IAM (Okta) environment, which has been completed and operational in the CWS-CARES non-production environment. Now, we are ready to perform this transition for the current CWS-CARES RFA Greenfield production environment.

As some of the cutover activities require coordination with stakeholder organizations, we will be requesting for your IT team’s support to execute specific tasks on your systems. A separate communication addressed to the designated SPOC and technical representative will specify the required actions and schedule, which will be provided closer to the transition date.

We recently engaged with your organization during a preliminary meeting and discussed timeline, availability, and outcomes of this transition. During that discussion, no concerns were raised from your organization if we conduct the transition activities in the upcoming weeks.

The date for this transition cutover from non-FedRAMP to FedRAMP IAM environment is scheduled for Thursday, March 19, 2026, from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM. During this time, the RFA Greenfield production environment will be unavailable.

Action Required

After the transition activities, users should clear their web browser cache before logging in to the Okta RFA Greenfield production environment. For guidance on how to clear the web browser cache for Chrome or Edge, please follow the steps provided here: Clear cache & cookies - Computer - Google Account Help

All SPOCs and Technical Contacts:

Forwarding this bulletin as a “For Your Information” communication only, for CWS/CMS.  There is no expected outage for CWS/CMS due to all of the CWS/CMS users rolling over to the SOCP mainframe LPAR during the maintenance window.

CARES-Live access will be impacted by this upgrade, from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM, on March 21, 2026, while the California Department of Technology (CDT) performs the upgrade.

The CDT has scheduled maintenance on Saturday, March 21, 2026, beginning at 1:00 PM and concluding at 9:00 PM. During the maintenance window, CDT will upgrade the CWDS SOC mainframe LPAR operating system to version 3.1. The SOC system will be unavailable during the maintenance window; however, all CWS/CMS users will roll over to the other production LPAR, SOCP.

CARES-Live will not be available from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM while the upgrade is occurring on the SOC mainframe LPAR. CARES-Live is located solely on the SOC LPAR; CARES-Live users will not be able to roll over to the SOCP LPAR.

Action Required

CWS/CMS Users
If users experience any issues with CWS/CMS, please follow your county process for reporting issues or you may contact the IBM Boulder Help Desk at 1-800-428-8268.

CARES-Live Users
If users experience any issues with the CARES-Live, please follow your county process for reporting issues. CARES-Live County Administrators may contact the CARES Service Desk through the CWDS ServiceNow Customer Support Management (CSM) Portal. Alternate methods are phoning 1-855-292-3444 or via email at Servicedesk@cwds.ca.gov during normal business hours. You may also email after hours, and a Service Desk representative will contact you the next business day.

All SPOCs and Technical Contacts:

Forwarding this bulletin as a “For Your Information” communication only. There is no expected outage due to all of the CWS/CMS users rolling over to the SOC mainframe LPAR during the maintenance window.

CARES-Live access will not be impacted by this upgrade.

The California Department of Technology (CDT) has scheduled maintenance on Sunday, March 29, 2026, beginning at 3:00 AM and concluding at 12:00 Noon. During the maintenance window, CDT will upgrade the CWDS SOCP mainframe LPAR operating system to version 3.1. The SOCP system will be unavailable during the maintenance window; however, all CWS/CMS users will roll over to the other production LPAR, SOC.

Action Required

No action required.

CWS/CMS Users
If users experience any issues with CWS/CMS, please follow your county process for reporting issues or you may contact the IBM Boulder Help Desk at 1-800-428-8268.

CARES-Live Users
If users experience any issues with the CARES-Live, please follow your county process for reporting issues. CARES-Live County Administrators may contact the CARES Service Desk through the CWDS ServiceNow Customer Support Management (CSM) Portal at https://cwds.service-now.com/csm. Alternate methods are phoning 1-855-292-3444 or via email at Servicedesk@cwds.ca.gov during normal business hours. You may also email after hours, and a Service Desk representative will contact you the next business day.

All SPOCs and Technical Contacts:

Forwarding this bulletin as a “For Your Information” communication only. There is no expected outage due to all of the CWS/CMS users rolling over to the SOC mainframe LPAR during the maintenance window.

CARES-Live access will not be impacted by this upgrade.

The California Department of Technology (CDT) has scheduled maintenance on Sunday, March 29, 2026, beginning at 3:00 AM and concluding at 12:00 Noon. During the maintenance window, CDT will upgrade the CWDS SOCP mainframe LPAR operating system to version 3.1. The SOCP system will be unavailable during the maintenance window; however, all CWS/CMS users will roll over to the other production LPAR, SOC.

Action Required

No action required.

CWS/CMS Users

If users experience any issues with CWS/CMS, please follow your county process for reporting issues or you may contact the IBM Boulder Help Desk at 1-800-428-8268.

CARES-Live Users

If users experience any issues with the CARES-Live, please follow your county process for reporting issues. CARES-Live County Administrators may contact the CARES Service Desk through the CWDS ServiceNow Customer Support Management (CSM) Portal. Alternate methods are phoning 1-855-292-3444 or via email at Servicedesk@cwds.ca.gov during normal business hours. You may also email after hours, and a Service Desk representative will contact you the next business day.

All Pilot County RFA Implementation Coordinators and SPOCs:

The CWS-CARES team has scheduled maintenance activity for the CWS-CARES production environment for Monday, March 16, 2026, beginning at 5:00 PM and concluding at 8:00 PM. During the maintenance window, the CWS-CARES Resource Family Approval (RFA) Application Submission, Review, and Approval Process will be accessible for pilot counties Fresno, Placer, and Santa Clara.

During the maintenance window, Tableau reports refresh will be on hold in the CARES application.

Action Required

No action required from end-users during this maintenance window.

If users experience any issues with the CWS-CARES, please follow your county process for reporting issues. CWS-CARES County Administrators may contact the CARES Service Desk through the CWDS ServiceNow Customer Support Management (CSM) Portal. Alternate methods are phoning 1-855-292-3444 or via email at Servicedesk@cwds.ca.gov during normal business hours. You may also email after hours, and a Service Desk representative will contact you the next business day.

All Pilot County RFA Implementation Coordinators and SPOCs:

The CWS-CARES team has scheduled maintenance activity for the CWS-CARES production environment for Monday, March 16, 2026, beginning at 5:00 PM and concluding at 8:00 PM. During the maintenance window, the CWS-CARES Resource Family Approval (RFA) Application Submission, Review, and Approval Process will be accessible for pilot counties Fresno, Placer, and Santa Clara.

During the maintenance window, Tableau reports refresh will be on hold in the CARES application.

Action Required

No action required from end-users during this maintenance window.

If users experience any issues with the CWS-CARES, please follow your county process for reporting issues. CWS-CARES County Administrators may contact the CARES Service Desk through the CWDS ServiceNow Customer Support Management (CSM) Portal. Alternate methods are phoning 1-855-292-3444 or via email at Servicedesk@cwds.ca.gov during normal business hours. You may also email after hours, and a Service Desk representative will contact you the next business day.

All Pilot County RFA Implementation Coordinators and SPOCs:

The CWS-CARES team has scheduled maintenance activity for the CWS-CARES production environment for Tuesday, March 3, 2026, beginning at 5:00 PM and concluding at 8:00 PM. During the maintenance window, the CWS-CARES Resource Family Approval (RFA) Application Submission, Review, and Approval Process will be accessible for pilot counties Fresno, Placer, and Santa Clara.

During the maintenance window, Tableau reports refresh will be on hold in the CARES application.

Action Required

If users experience any issues with CARES-Live, please follow your county process for reporting issues. CWS-CARES County Administrators may contact the CARES Service Desk through the CWDS ServiceNow Customer Support Management (CSM) Portal. Alternate methods are phoning 1-855-292-3444 or via email at Servicedesk@cwds.ca.gov during normal business hours. You may also email after hours and a Service Desk representative will contact you the next business day.

All SPOCs and Technical Contacts:

The CARES-Live team has scheduled maintenance for the CARES-Live application. The maintenance is scheduled for Thursday, February 26, 2026, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM. During this scheduled maintenance the CARES-Live team will focus on application maintenance changes that are not visible to CARES-Live users.

NOTE: Users will not be able to access the CARES-Live application during the scheduled outage.

Action Required

If users experience any issues with CARES-Live, please follow your county process for reporting issues. CARES-Live County Administrators may contact the CARES Service Desk through the CWDS ServiceNow Customer Support Management (CSM) Portal. Alternate methods are phoning 1-855-292-3444 or via email at Servicedesk@cwds.ca.gov during normal business hours. You may also email after hours and a Service Desk representative will contact you the next business day.

All Pilot County RFA Implementation Coordinators and SPOCs:

The CWS-CARES team has scheduled maintenance activity for the CWS-CARES production environment for Thursday, February 26, 2026, beginning at 5:00 PM and concluding at 8:00 PM. During the maintenance window, the CWS-CARES Resource Family Approval (RFA) Application Submission, Review, and Approval Process will be accessible for pilot counties Fresno, Placer, and Santa Clara.

During the maintenance window, document related functionality in the CARES application will not be accessible.

Action Required

No action required from end-users during this maintenance window.

If users experience any issues with the CWS-CARES, please follow your county process for reporting issues. CWS-CARES County Administrators may contact the CARES Service Desk through the CWDS ServiceNow Customer Support Management (CSM) Portal. Alternate methods are phoning 1-855-292-3444 or via email at Servicedesk@cwds.ca.gov during normal business hours. You may also email after hours, and a Service Desk representative will contact you the next business day.