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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 2, 2021

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B/A Client 8.x support for Solaris (SPARC on 11.4)

Customer is requesting support of B/A client on 8.x for SPARC Solaris Servers. Currently are backing up the environment with 7.x client but it's reaching EOS in Dec/2021.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 21, 2022

    I was VERY surprised and as a customer - and former IBM partner supporting TSM - when I heard of the dropping of Solaris support. Since so many larger organizations still use Solaris for "heartbeat" applications for their enterprise. I understand the competitive nature of this decision - but still think it was a poor one - and if I was still an active IBM partner I would have made several phone calls.

    I was also surprised I did not hear about this survey until today - and we've had IBM "cadence" calls for about a hear now. Maybe I missed it in a time or two it was mentioned - but it was clearly not highlighted to us.

    Please reconsider this decision - and make your partners and customers comfortable again with TSM/SP as a mainstay product. Over the last 15 years I've been installing, implementing and supporting it It has served us VERY well - until this.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 4, 2021

    IBM has evaluated the request, and has determined that it can not be implemented at this time or does not align with the current multi-year strategy.

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