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Subject: Re: Solaris 2.5.1 is not supported at this time; Sol 2.5 ful
Author:  "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> at Internet
Date:    1/10/97 1:41 PM


Mj Lopatin wrote:
>
> Melinda, et al,
>
>   The ADSM Solaris 2.5 client is not supported on the Solaris 2.5.1 operating
> system at this time.  Customers that attmpted to run PTF 5 on the Solaris
2.5.1
> operating system anyway encountered some problems. Since we do not support it
> yet and have not yet tested it, we now prevent the installation of the
> Solaris 2.5 client on the Solaris 2.5.1 operating systems with PTF 6,
> to prevent any further problems.
>
>   We hope to support the 2.5.1 operating system in the near future.
> Meanwhile, if you want to get around our restriction, at your own risk,
> you can use the 'pkgtrans' command on the Solaris 2.5 package, and change
> the uname check in the preinstall file in the IBMDSMba5 install directory
> to allow 5.5.1 in addition to 5.5.  But please do not call in any problems
> you encounter to IBM service, because you are using this at your own risk
> until we support it.  Thanks.
>
>   Also, if you did Sol 2.5 backups using PTF 5, you will get a full
incremental
> backup the first time after you install PTF 6.  This is because of a fix for
> APAR IC15350, where customers that used the Solaris 2.3/2.4 client before
> the Solaris 2.5 client came out were getting a full incremental with the
> new client due to the way we designed our ACL support.  Now they won't get a
> full incremental backup if they skip from PTF 3 or 4 to Solaris 2.5 PTF 6, but
> Solaris 2.5 client customers that started their backups with PTF 5 when the
> client came out will have one full incremental after installing PTF 6.
> This is all documented in the Solaris 2.5 PTF 6 README and in APAR IC15350,
> and should not happen again with any future PTFs.  We apologize for the
> inconvenience, but the design is right this time with PTF 6.
>
> MJ Lopatin
> ADSM Client Development

Please bear with this one more time (for what may be obvious to most of the
audience) but I just want to get clarification on this issue.  We just got a
Solaris 2.5.1 operating system on which we want to test SQL/Backtrack with ADSM.
Is the above saying that no ADSM client is supported on Solaris 2.5.1? Or can I
install the 2.3/2.4 client on the 2.5.1 operating system?  To achieve my stated
goal what ADSM client code (ptf# IP20xxx) do you recommend?  Thanks.

Frank Rehor
The Clorox Services Company
frank.rehor AT clorox DOT com
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