> Are most people planning on upgrading to 5.1?
        We are

> What are the implications of staying at 4.2 or lower?
        No Official IBM /Tivoli Support 

> Is there any additional cost to upgrade?
        If you have up to date paid maint no. See your sales rep....

> Are there any major issues with 5.1???
        We haven't hit any yet, We upgraded 4.1.6 to 5.1.0 then 5.1.5 in one day
        The server we upgraded is a AIX 4.3.3 , H8- with 4Cpu 2GB Ram 80GB TSM 
DB Took 9hrs total.  CLient     still mixed with 3.7 to 5.1


-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Levitan [mailto:marc.levitan AT PFPC DOT COM]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 11:00 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: End Of Support V4.2


I browsed the archives and could not find direct answers to my questions.
These are relatively short answered questions.  Could someone reply?






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                    10:09 AM
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> It appears that TSM 4.2 has reached end of support on 4/15/03.
>
> Is this for Clients AND Server?
> Are most people planning on upgrading to 5.1?
> What are the implications of staying at 4.2 or lower?
>
> Is there any additional cost to upgrade?
>
> Are there any major issues with 5.1???

You *really* should read the mailing list, or at least browse the
archives at http://search.adsm.org. We've been discussing all of these
issues at length for the last six months. :o)

--
Mark Stapleton (mark.stapleton AT berbee DOT com)