The one issue I can think of is that you will need to upgrade your TSM
DB to a newer version since TSM 4.2 is only supported on older versions
of AIX.


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Joshua S. Bassi
Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM
eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP
IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark
Cell (831) 595-3962

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Gerald Wichmann
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 9:36 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: TSM & AIX compatibility


I'm just looking at some of the new IBM pSeries servers based on the
power4 architecture. It's my understanding that they only run AIX 5L and
not AIX 4.3.. That has me wondering about potential DR related problems
with TSM. Say my environment is currently TSM 4.2 on AIX 4.3.3 and I
lose everything in a disaster except my offsite tapes. Lets say the only
replacement server I can acquire is a new pSeries that only runs AIX 5L.
Perhaps I even can only get a newer version of TSM (5.1 or 5.2). Are
there any compatibility issues in recovering a TSM DB snapshot backup to
a newer version of TSM running on a newer version of AIX?

Gerald Wichmann
Senior Systems Development Engineer
Zantaz, Inc.
925.598.3099 (w)



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