Hi Aaron, I appreciate your care with this. The user group are the first users to be briefed on this.
We're not quite ready to put more in writing just yet, however I will be at SC17 and hope to be able to do so at that time. (I'll also take any other questions that people want to ask, including "where's my RFE?"...) I also want to add one note about the meaning of feature deprecation, because it's not well understood even within IBM: If we deprecate a feature with the next major release it does NOT mean we are dropping support there and then. It means we are announcing the INTENTION to drop support in some future release, and encourage you to (a) start making plans on migration to a supported alternative, and (b) chime in on what you need in order to be able to satisfactorily migrate if our proposed alternative is not adequate. regards, Carl Zetie Offering Manager for Spectrum Scale, IBM (540) 882 9353 ][ Research Triangle Park [email protected] ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 07:57:21 -0400 From: Aaron Knister <[email protected]> To: gpfsug main discussion list <[email protected]> Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] OS/Feature deprecations in upcoming major release Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Hi All, At the SSUG in NY there was mention of operating systems as well as feature deprecations that would occur in the lifecycle of the next major release of GPFS. I'm not sure if this is public knowledge yet so I haven't mentioned specifics but given the proposed release time frame of the next major release I thought customers may appreciate having access to this information so they could provide feedback about the potential impact to their environment if these deprecations do occur. Any chance someone from IBM could provide specifics here so folks can chime in? -Aaron -- Aaron Knister NASA Center for Climate Simulation (Code 606.2) Goddard Space Flight Center (301) 286-2776 ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss
