[gpfsug-discuss] OS/Feature deprecations in upcoming major release

Aaron Knister aaron.s.knister at nasa.gov
Mon Oct 9 20:00:02 BST 2017


Thanks Carl. Unfortunately I won't be at SC17 this year but thankfully a 
number of my colleagues will be so I'll send them with a list of 
questions on my behalf :)

On 10/6/17 4:39 PM, Carl Zetie wrote:
> 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
>   carlz at us.ibm.com
> 
> 
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> Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 07:57:21 -0400
> From: Aaron Knister <aaron.s.knister at nasa.gov>
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> 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
> 

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Aaron Knister
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