End of Service for 3.7 is 1.01.03

Keith Davey


On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Williams, Tim wrote:

>         shame on Tivoli if this was truly not in any readme as a WARNING....
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>         Kevin Corning-Hyman <kcorning AT MHC DOT NET>
>         12/15/2000 08:11 AM
>         Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
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>         Subject:        Supported COMMMETHOD for v4.1
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>         I'm not sure if this has been covered before, but IPXSPX, NETBIOS
> and SNA are no longer valid COMMunication METHODs in your dsmserv.opt in
> v4.1  We found out the hard way after upgrading from v3.1 to v3.7 then to
> v4.1 yesterday.  Our three hour install ended up being 11 hours after having
> to downgrade back to v3.7.
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>         We did not find any references to this in any of the v4.1
> documentation, but a support call to Tivoli did confirm that these are no
> longer supported communication methods.
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>         I hope this helps others of you trying to decide whether to upgrade
> to v3.7 or v4.1.
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>         This brings up a question.  Does anyone know how long v3.7 will be
> supported?
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>         Kevin Corning-Hyman
>         Information Center Consultant
>         Munson Healthcare
>         kcorning AT mhc DOT net
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