FYI - 7.1.1.000 is still on the FTP site. 7.1.1.100 is also on the FTP site. Ref http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24035122
Best regards, Joerg Pohlmann -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Denier Sent: December 8, 2014 08:34 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM level for deduplication Bent, TSM 7.1.1.000 had a bug that sometimes caused restores of large files to fail. IBM considered the bug serious enough to warrant removing 7.1.1.000 from its software distribution servers. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bent Christensen Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2014 6:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ADSM-L] SV: TSM level for deduplication Hi Thomas, when you are calling 7.1.1- an "utter distaster" when it comes to dedup then what issues are you referring to? I have been using 7.1.1 in a production environment dedupping some 500 TB, approx 400 nodes, without any bigger issues for more than a year now. Surely, there are still lots of "not-very-well-documented features" in TSM 7, and I am not at all impressed by IBM support, and especially not DB2 support and their lack of willingness to recognize TSM DB2 as being a production environment, but when it comes to dedupping it has been smooth sailing for us up until now. - Bent ________________________________________ Fra: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [[email protected]] På vegne af Thomas Denier [[email protected]] Sendt: 5. december 2014 20:56 Til: [email protected] Emne: [ADSM-L] TSM level for deduplication My management is very eager to deploy TSM deduplication in our production environment. We have been testing deduplication on a TSM 6.2.5.0 test server, but the list of known bugs makes me very uncomfortable about using that level for production deployment of deduplication. The same is true of later Version 6 levels and TSM 7.1.0. TSM 7.1.1.000 was an utter disaster. Is there any currently available level in which the deduplication code is really fit for production use? IBM has historically described patch levels as being less thoroughly tested than maintenance levels. Because of that I have avoided patch levels unless they were the only option for fixing crippling bugs in code we were already using. Is that attitude still warranted? In particular, is that attitude warranted for TSM 7.1.1.100? Has IBM dropped any hints about the likely availability date for TSM 7.1.2.000? Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital The information contained in this transmission contains privileged and confidential information. It is intended only for the use of the person named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or duplication of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. CAUTION: Intended recipients should NOT use email communication for emergent or urgent health care matters.
