There were a few patch levels of the TSM client 5.4.1 that would work on 
Win2000 machines, but the client was actually operating at 5.3 levels despite 
the 5.4 label.

IIRC, 5.4.1.6 was the latest patch level that did this.

--
Mark Stapleton
System engineer, CDW



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????? ?????
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Hi All,

I am working with 5.4.1.3 client on W2K machines.
TSM server is 5.5.2.0.

Gideon Brown
System Administrator
03-5319085,052-8395641

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Ochs, Duane
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That's what I figured.

5.3.6 is the last TSM client version that states it supports W2K.
5.4.3 is the last TSM client version that states it supports AIX 5.2

Thanks.


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km
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Subject: Re: Version Interoperability...

On 11/02, Ochs, Duane wrote:
> Hi all,
> Is there a rule of thumb for version interoperability ?
> I'm prepping to upgrade my three TSM servers to 5.5.1.1 from 5.4.3.0
>
> I'm going through and upgrading my clients to 5.5.*.* and found some
> W2K boxes running 5.2.2 and some AIX 5.2 boxes running 5.2.2 .
>
> Neither of those are listed as being supported by the client TSM
> version of 5.5.
> Any suggestions for interoperability before I start researching the
> last TSM version that supported W2K and AIX 5.2.2?
>
> Thanks,
> Duane
>

If you're only using the baclient (normal tsm backup client) there is
practically no limit on version intermixing. I've hade customers running
3.x clients against 5.4 servers so 5.x against a 5.5 shouldnt be be a
problem but YMMV.

On Windows you _might_ get problems with systemstate on wildly different
TSM versions but running TSM 5.3 client on Win2k (last supported
version) works without a hitch against 5.5 server, even so for the
5.2/5.3 baclient on AIX.

My rule of thumb is, try it, it will most probably work!

Ofcourse this is is not supported but neither is win2k :)

-km

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