IBM does not officially support CentOS for the Spectrum Protect server.

The experience from the product team is that many of the Linux 
distributions work and behave with similar support and capabilities for 
basic functions that the product requires such as memory management, 
threading, and such. The functional areas where the product team has 
observed differences or variations are in support of devices, in 
particular tape, and with regards to optimization and performance.

In the event that a Spectrum Protect server were run on a Linux variant 
like CentOS that IBM does not explicitly test or officially support, 
problem determination and resolution (in particular if it has to do with 
operating system behaviors or capabilities) will only be possible using 
one of the published and supported Linux distributions.


Del

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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 01/19/2017 
07:10:46 PM:

> From: Roger Deschner <rogerd AT UIC DOT EDU>
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Date: 01/19/2017 07:11 PM
> Subject: TSM Server on CentOS Linux
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> 
> Management here is contemplating having us move our production TSM
> servers to the CentOS Linux operating system, which is a free branch of
> Red Hat.
> 
> Has anybody done this? What are the support issues with IBM?
> 
> (TSM Client is already supported on CentOS via "Best effort".)
> 
> Roger Deschner      University of Illinois at Chicago     rogerd AT uic DOT 
> edu
> ======I have not lost my mind -- it is backed up on tape somewhere.=====
>