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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 10, 2016

Client should deliver a possible patch/update level of an OS

New client-versions deliver information about the OS into the TSM-server.
APAR IT13056 refers to OS Windows 2012 R2 Update 1.
At the moment a TSM-admin has no possibilty to see whether a client has installed this update or not.
Only the user of the client knews this.
Normally msinfo32 shows this information.
Example for Windows 7: line "version": 6.1.76001 Service Pack 1 Build 76001
The information "Service Pack 1" should be sent to the server too.
For Windows 2012 R2 it's more difficult because at the moment the information is encoded implicit in the value of 'hardware abstraction layer".

Idea priority Medium