Hi Del!
Your statement "Customer always have the option of not installing a fix
release, and waiting for the next PTF or release of that Data Protection
client" may be true in most cases, but not when new platform support is
added. You don't have the option to wait for a new release because you
cannot backup your production data in the meantime!
We normally use the most recent maintenance levels for all TSM and DP
clients. Only when customers encounter a bug which is fixed in a fix
release, they will upgrade to that fix release, until the next
maintenance release (containing the APAR) is there. The customer will
replace their fix level with this new maintenance level a.s.a.p. I think
most TSM customers work this way.
Why didn't Tivoli add the Windows 2005 support and release this as
maintenance release 5.3.0? That was a nice chance of synchronizing the
level with other DP clients like DP for Exchange, DP for Lotus Domino
and DP for mySAP...
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Del Hoobler
Sent: maandag 7 augustus 2006 17:37
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: SQL Server 2005 support?
Hi Eric,
Data Protection clients do not have a "new release" (or even a PTF) near
as often as the BA client does. But, there are still situations like
this where we try to get customers the support they need, as soon as we
can. Sometimes that means, putting this kind of support into a fix
release. Customer always have the option of not installing a fix
release, and waiting for the next PTF or release of that Data Protection
client.
Also note that Microsoft made it quite easy for vendors to add SQL
Server 2005 support because they made almost everything backward
compatible. There were only very minor changes that had to be made.
Thanks,
Del
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 08/07/2006
10:00:00 AM:
> Hi Del!
> Thank you very much for your quick reply!
> I wasn't expecting new support in a fix release... Wouldn't it be more
> logical to create a 5.2.2.0 version containing 2005 support? Now we
> have to backup production nodes by using a fix release, which I
> normally would not recommend...
> Kindest regards,
> Eric van Loon
> KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
>
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