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All SPOCs and Technical Contacts in Mariposa County: The California Department of Technology (CDT) has scheduled maintenance on Wednesday, February 19, 2025, beginning at 12:01 AM and concluding at 6:00 AM. Users at the listed site will experience a one-hour interruption in connectivity to CWS/CMS and CARES-Live within the scheduled Verizon mai...

All SPOCs and Technical Contacts: The CWS/CMS Workstation Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) Install Options guide has been updated to version 7.3. The date of this updated guide is February 5, 2025. IBM/Kyndryl have loaded this updated guide to the Co-Existent Counties’ shared folder (CodeDist\COTS_Software\Windows_11) If a Co-Existent County doe...

To: Child Welfare and Probation CARES SPOCs and Child Welfare Implementation Coordinators CC: County, Tribe, Probation, and State Leadership, and OCM Coordinators February 14, 2025 UPDATE: We would like to notify everyone that the January 2025 Q&A (PDF) is now posted to the website. CWS-CARES Stakeholder Briefings | Child Welfare Digital...

To: External Systems Points of Contact and CARES SPOCs CC: County Leadership, CARES Implementation Coordinators, and OCM Coordinators This email provides an update on the CWS-CARES Data Dictionary information previously communicated to External Systems Points of Contact and CARES SPOCs on September 27, 2024. Current Status: The CWS-CARES...

All SPOCs: The CWDS Office and IBM have scheduled a patch update for the System Change Request (SCR) website. The patch window is scheduled for Wednesday, February 12, 2025, beginning at 7:00 PM and concluding at 11:00 PM. The SCR website will be unavailable for approximately one hour within the patch update window. Action Required No actio...

All SPOCs and Technical Contacts: The California Department of Technology (CDT) has scheduled maintenance on Sunday, February 2, 2025, beginning at 7:00 AM and concluding at 11:00 AM. During the maintenance window, there is no anticipated outage. Action Required If users experience any issues with CWS/CMS, please follow your county process ...

All SPOCs, Technical Contacts, and CAD Contacts: The CWS/CMS CAD BusinessObjects (BO) server was unavailable last night, January 29, 2025. It was rebooted this morning at 10:10 AM, and the service was restored. The Search indexing caused logging issues for the DB2. Therefore, the Search indexing has been temporarily paused until the issue is re...

All SPOCs and Technical Contacts: Effective January 30, 2025, CARES-Live 2.8.32 Release is Scheduled to Move into Production The CARES-Live team has scheduled release activity that will interrupt connectivity to the CARES-Live application. The release activity will begin at 6:00 PM on Thursday, January 30, 2025, and conclude at 9:00 PM. Durin...

All SPOCs, Technical Contacts and CTW Registered Testers: To accommodate the CARES Pilot Support activities, the CWDS Executive Leadership Team has decided to postpone the CWS/CMS Release 9.6 by three months, originally scheduled for Saturday, May 17, 2025. We apologize for any inconvenience this postponement may cause. The new CWS/CMS Relea...

All SPOCs, Technical Contacts, and SBC Administrators: The California Department of Technology (CDT) has scheduled maintenance on Saturday, January 25, 2025, beginning at 6:00 AM and concluding at 10:00 AM. During the maintenance window, CDT will apply Standard Monthly OS Security Patches to SBCS Infrastructure Servers. There is no anticipated ...