Hi Zoltan!
The page http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21053218 shows that 
the SP 8.1.2 client is supported with all 8.1 and 7.1 servers. I have never 
encountered issues with down-leveled clients in my 20+ years of TSM history.
Kind regards,
Eric van Loon
Air France/KLM Storage Engineering

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Zoltan Forray
Sent: dinsdag 22 augustus 2017 15:03
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: 8.1.2 client and 7.1.7 servers

Has anyone tried using the latest 8.1.2 clients with 7.1.7 servers?  I haven't 
had the chance to test such a configuration (since my lone test server is at 
8.1.1) and with the dire-warnings in the readme docs, I made sure everyone on 
my staff knows to NOT install 8.1.2 clients.

From the readme/docs:

Upgrade your IBM Spectrum Protect™ servers to Version 8.1.2 before you upgrade 
the backup-archive clients.



If you do not upgrade your servers first, communication between servers and 
clients might be interrupted.


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