Rich - I'm running TSM 5.1.5 BAclients on AIX 4.3.3 to our AIX TSM Server
5.3.1.0.  It's been running without fail for about the last 8 months. This
is definitely NOT a supported or certified configuration.  On the other
hand it works.

We ended up with this configuration after upgrading our W2K/W2K3 nodes to
TSM 5.3.x and our AIX TSM server to 5.3.x and our AIX nodes to TSM 5.2.x.
We couldn't update several AIX boxes from 4.3.3 so we just left them alone
and they happily kept right on doing backups and the occasional restore.

ltp





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Rich --

FWIW, I'm currently running TSM 5.1.6.3 on AIX 5.3 64-bit with no
apparent problems. We went from AIX 5.1 to AIX 5.3 in August. I'm in the
process of working out a simplified test environment for TSM 5.3, with
plans to upgrade next week if all goes well.

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Richard Mochnaczewski
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 1:47 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: TSM Upgrade from 5.1.6 to 5.3

Hi Everybody,

I'm currently planning an upgrade of TSM 5.1.6 on AIX 4.3.3 to TSM 5.3
on AIX 5.2 . Since this will be an inplace upgrade on the same server,
is TSM 5.1.6 supported on AIX 5.2 ? I know that IBM does not "support"
5.1.6 , but I have a very tight upgrade  window and need to do the
upgrade in stages for both the OS and TSM version over the course of a
few Sundays as I do not see going from 5.1.6/4.3.3 to 5.3/5.3 in on
shot.

i.e.

1) First Sunday : upgrade OS from 4.3.3 to 5.2
2) Following Sunday : Upgrade TSM 5.1.6 to 5.2
3) Following Sunday : Upgrade TSM 5.2 to 5.3

Rich