Update #3: Reminder that DDS decommissioning date remains June 19, one weeks from today. This will happen whether we are in critical weather day or not, as the system has not been operational for many months. Some external providers have started to terminate their data delivery to DDS, so users will see some many products no longer available.
Update #2: Reminder that DDS decommissioning date remains June 19, two weeks from today. Some external providers have started to terminate their data delivery to DDS, so users may see some products no longer available.

Update #1: Reminder that DDS decommissioning date remains June 19, three weeks from today.

Topic: Shutdown of Data Distribution Server (DDS)
Date/Time Issued: June 12, 2018 1530Z
Product(s) or Data Impacted: All products currently distributed on DDS
Date/Time of Initial Impact: June 19, 2018 1500Z
Date/Time of Expected End: None
Length of Outage: Ongoing change
Details and Specifics of Change: As the final step in decommissioning the DDS system, user access to DDS will be shutoff on Tuesday, June 19, 2018 at 1500Z.
On January 22, 2018, PDA was declared as the primary distribution server for all legacy data, and support to DDS was dropped to 8x5. All legacy data has been available on PDA since Sep 13, 2017.

External data providers to DDS may shut off their delivery to DDS anytime after Tuesday, June 12, 2018. (Contact donna.mcnamara@noaa.gov if you need to do this sooner.)
Please note - Any DDS users who have not been re-validated for PDA access may complete and submit a Data Access Request (DAR) form. The DAR form is available at the website listed below.
Contact Information for Further Information: email: NESDIS.Data.Access@noaa.gov for DAR submission or other questions
Web Site(s) for applicable information: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Organization/About/access.html
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