Gentlemen,

    IBM will not support ADSM as of 3/1/2000.....We have already migrated
account's to TSM 3.7   I have already recycled my ADSM Book's.

Michael Bingham
IBM/Tivoli Steady State Team
5600 N. 63rd Street
Boulder,Colorado 80314

From: Boris Feldman <tazpe AT IEC.CO DOT IL>
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Subject: Re: End of support for ADSM
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Hello Russell,

Yes,  I heard the same message from IBM and I'm not surprised.
After the ADSM v3.1 release  has been released I remember the same
message : "ADSM v2 will not support 12 months after v3.1 has been released
".

So, don't be surprised.
Just migrate to  TSM.

Boris Feldman
-----Original Message-----
From: Russell Street <russells AT AUCKLAND.AC DOT NZ>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
Date: iem gniyi 10 taxe`x 2000 07:28
Subject: Re: End of support for ADSM


>>   I heard a rumor that IBM will not be supporting ADSM (as it exists
now)
after
>> the end of this year.  I'm not sure what they meant by 'as it exists
now'
but I
>> was wondering if anybody else heard this or if anybody received an
'official'
>> announcement from IBM.
>
>If you go to IBM's web site and search for the annoucement letters on
>ADSM you will get the full story.  In particular:
>
>999-298 19990928 Software Withdrawal: IBM and Tivoli ADSTAR
>        Distributed Storage Manager for AIX, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, Windows
NT,
>        OS/2, and AS/400 and Selected ServiceWare, Inc. Offerings --
>        Replacements Available
>
>
>Basically, the next version from ADSM 3.1 is TSM 3.7 and IBM are
>ending support of the 3.1 version some 16 months after the next one
>has been released.
>
>
>Russell
>
>(who is still waiting for his 3.7 upgrade kit ;)
>
>

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