Re: Should I upgrade to 7.1.8.x ??? (on the client end only)

2018-01-02 Thread Skylar Thompson
Content preview: I believe the incompatibility arises if you set SESSIONSECURITY to STRICT for your nodes. The default is TRANSITIONAL so you should be fine; IIRC the only communication problems we had when upgrading our servers to v7.1.8 was with library sharing. [...] Content ana

Re: Should I upgrade to 7.1.8.x ??? (on the client end only)

2018-01-02 Thread Tom Alverson
Thanks for that link, I am more worried about any "gotcha's" caused by upgrading the client to 7.1.8 or 8.1.2 before the storage servers get upgraded (and start using the new authentication). What I had not realized until I saw the chart is that the new clients are NOT backward compatible with ol

Re: Should I upgrade to 7.1.8.x ??? (on the client end only)

2018-01-02 Thread Skylar Thompson
There's pretty wide version compatibility between clients and servers; we didn't go v7 server-side until pretty recently but have been running the v7 client for a while. IBM has a matrix published here: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21053218 For basic backups and restores I thi

Should I upgrade to 7.1.8.x ??? (on the client end only)

2018-01-02 Thread Tom Alverson
Our TSM storage servers were all upgraded last year to 7.1.7.2 (before this new security update came out). Now I am wondering if I should start using the updated client or not? If the servers stay at 7.1.7.2 for now is there any harm in using the newer client? I would have to use 7.1.8.0 on an