I really question whether IBM has any committment to ADSM/HSM as a
strategic product.
I have owned two licenses for the HSM component since last September,
and have never been able to use them.

By the time we got ADSM installed, I found out that the AIX servers that
were our intended ADSM clients were all running AIX 4.1.4, and there was
no HSM support.

So I waited until HSM support became available for 4.1.4.  But by the
time that was available, we already had orders in to replace our
stand-alone RS/6000's with an 8-node SP, which just arrived with AIX
4.2.

And there is STILL no HSM support for AIX 4.2.


> ----------
> From:         Mark J. Cecil[SMTP:mjc AT WAYLOO.TCS.TULANE DOT EDU]
> Sent:         Wednesday, July 30, 1997 1:42 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: AIX 4.2 and ADSM
>
> >
> > Hello,
> > I have ADSM Server 2.1.5.12 and ADSM Client 2.1.0.6 running on SP
> nodes
> > with AIX 4.1.5 and I am planning to migrate AIX to version 4.2 .
> > Has someone experienced the same situation???
> > Is this environment running without problems???
> > Can You help me with this ??
> > Thanks,
>
> We don't have a prob with 4.2 on a backup level, but there is no 4.2
> support for HSM.  At least at last check...
>
> Mark
>
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